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performance and help set and achieve goals. The key roles and duties of a fitness professional are to: motivate, assist clients and measure heart rates and body fat levels. Trainers need to be patient, well organized and have time management as well as interpersonal skills."You are in a helping profession. Although you are not a social worker, psychologist or guidance counselor, neither are you simply a technician with advanced training in exercise science, biomechanics, program design and assessment methodology."(Jim and Nettie Gavin) Notable fitness professionals or former fitness professionals include
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Coaches also improve the physical condition of an athlete to help increase their full performance; improve form, technique, skills and stamina. A coach must be ready to work long and irregular hours including evenings, weekends and holidays. Typically, coaches are required to be a minimum 18 years of age and have a bachelor's degree.
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A coach can help amateur and professional athletes to be successful in a particular sport by teaching them the required skills needed. However, they can coach more than one sport to multiple people. Their role involves identifying athletes strengths and weaknesses as well as those of their opponent.
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exercise to improve these components, and may also help clients with specific or chronic conditions. Fitness professionals help challenge an individual by increasing their performance, as compared to when a person would work out on their own. They also teach new workouts, how to improve their form,
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Fitness professionals need to have at least a high school diploma and in some fields, a bachelor's degree in a related field is required. Additionally, they must be certified in CPR (cardiovascular resuscitation) which is offered by the American Red Cross among many other classes such as First Aid
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In Canada, Canadian Fitness Education Services (CFES) provides national fitness leadership program modules to take candidates through the steps in Aquafit, Group Fitness and/or Weight Training Instructor and Personal Trainer national certification.
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Certified fitness professionals must remain up-to-date on all certifications in order to instruct at particular health clubs and gyms. Often, fitness professionals will have some education in
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are all technically distinct specialties with different processes and requirements for certification. In the United States the main certifying agency for personal trainers is ACSM (the
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have more and more in common: the, "distinctions...have become blurred, with more similarities than differences given the common background that all fitness professionals must possess."
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and AED (Automated External Defibrillator). Certification. They also offer lifeguard training, swimming, and water safety.
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The median annual pay for a personal trainer in the US as of 2019 is $ 40,390. The highest paid college coach in 2017 was
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have professional fitness coaches in order to systematically improve fitness and conditioning.
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Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE), improves athletic training
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Board of Certification, Inc (BOC), provides a program for the entry level fitness professional
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The American Society of Exercise Physiologists, (ASEP) assists exercise physiologists
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Other qualifications depending on the specific field can include:
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Fitness instructor

U.S. Navy
professional
fitness
exercise
instruction
professional sports
aerobics
yoga
instructors
authors
manuals
nutrition
weight-loss
self-help
exercise science
athletic training
certifications
exercise programs
fitness components
prescribe
Richard Simmons
Susan Powter
John Sitaras
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout
kinesiology
biomechanics
Personal training

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