Fitness Instructor
Fitness Instructor
Sports, Leisure and Environment
As a fitness instructor, you would lead and organise group and individual exercise programmes to help people to improve their health and fitness. You would either instruct a range of activities or specialise in a particular area.
Personal skills
Good communication and 'people' skill, an outgoing and approachable personality, diplomacy and tact, the ability to motivate and enthuse people, a responsible attitude to health and safety
Salary
£13,000 to £20,000 per year
Key skills
Diagnostic
Technical
Supervisory
Sports, Leisure and Environment
- There are 230,708 organisations throughout the UK in public, private and voluntary sectors
- There are over 5 million volunteers in the sector across the UK
- There are 576,000 people in paid employment in the sector
- The sector has to recruit 85,000 annually to cope with replacement demands
- Over the next 10 years, it is predicted that the sector will grow faster than the economy as a whole