Personal Trainer

**Mission for the Role**:
To grow Fit Culture to 100+ clients provide a world-class training experience that delivers measurable results to clients, cultivates a strong sense of family, and creates raving fans of Fit Culture Inc.

**Expectations**:
Passionate - Always looking to learn more about fitness, want to help the business grow - suggesting new ideas, new/updated systems, taking initiative to start new programs (referral, client services, getting new leads)

Personable - have excellent people skills, make sessions fun, always remembering client’s lives, knowing any injuries/limitations they have, asking questions, being interested, smile, greet them at the front, be with them while they warm up and cool down.

Entrepreneurial spirit - taking initiative on efficiencies, thinking of new creative ideas to grow the business, implementing marketing projects, creating in-studio events/seminars for members and local community, attend local networking,

Always learning - Curious and interested in new information on nutrition and exercise, reading one field-related book per month, CEU’s registered for a field-related course first 12 months

**Position Outcomes**

1) 100% of clients get monthly assessments

2) Produce one (1) client testimonial every month

3) Maintain a client renewal rate of 80% or higher

4) Generate one (1) new client referral every month

**Required Outcomes**
- Develop comprehensive health and fitness programs for clients. You’ll receive coaching and training on our fitness system and programs, but you’ll have the flexibility to incorporate your training style and knowledge.
- Attend weekly networking group meetings. To increase your effectiveness as a personal trainer, joining and attending Business Networking International (BNI) groups will be essential to your personal and professional development.
- Tracking client progress. To ensure a client's success in our programs, you'll need to track weekly progress, current successes and challenges, review client nutrition and exercise log worksheets, and more on a weekly basis. It will be your job to hold a client accountable to his/her health and fitness program to ensure the best results possible.
- Perform fitness evaluations. Ideally, you'll have some fitness assessment skills and can test for: body composition, body weight, girth measurements, blood pressure, heart rate, and various strength and flexibility tests. You do not need previous experience, but if you do, that's a bonus.
- Coach clients through 12-week program. You'll be responsible for weekly exercise sessions and keeping detailed weekly progress reports on the clients you’re working with. If a client is having challenges throughout his/her program, you'll coach and motivate them, and make appropriate changes to ensure consistent progress.
- Demonstrate proper exercise instruction. This is a big one. I need you to be able to provide proper coaching, instruction, and motivation during a client training session. You should have a working knowledge of the human body (i.e. anatomy, movements, functions, etc.), and be able to provide appropriate exercises for client’s goals.
- Provide ongoing health and fitness education. Our clients rely on us to service all of their health and fitness needs. It is your job as a fitness coach to provide your clients with health and fitness education on various topics that empower them to lead healthy lives forever. You'll be provided with educational tools and resources, be expected to study them, and speak about them with your clients. We also spend time covering this in our weekly staff meetings.
- Weekly meetings with Owner/Manager. Open communication between staff and managers is essential to success. Weekly meetings about current clients, prospects and leads will occur. These meetings will also include training and education on new exercises, equipment and training methods intended to be used with clients.

**Required Skills**:
These are the skills you must already have in order to qualify for this position:

- **Good communication skills. You will be talking with my clients, who are VERY important to me. You must be comfortable conversing in-person and on the phone, and know how to conduct yourself professionally and deliver clear instructions to the clients. I’ll teach you everything you need to do during a training session, but I can’t teach you manners and professionalism.**:

- **People skills and personality. You must LOVE working with people. As mentioned above you must be very comfortable working with people. This is an exciting studio and you must be able to show your clients energy and excitement while working with them.**:

- **Health and fitness education. You do not need extensive personal training experience, but you should have a working knowledge of health and fitness.**

Bonus Skills
- **Previous 2-3 years personal training experience (fitness studio, health club, in-home trainer, etc.)**:

- **Degree in Kinesiology, Biology