Personal trainer
Also searched as: Entrenador personal
Code 3423.2.2
What does a Personal trainer do?
Personal trainers design, implement and evaluate exercise or physical activity programmes for one or more individual clients by collecting and analysing client information. They strive to ensure the effectiveness of personal exercise programmes. A personal trainer should also actively encourage potential clients to participate in and adhere to regular programmes, employing appropriate motivational strategies.
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Essential skills
Skills and competences
- adapt fitness exercises
- analyse personal fitness information
- ensure safety of exercise environment
- identify customer objectives
- integrate exercise science to the design of the programme
- integrate principles of training
- demonstrate professional attitude to clients
- motivate fitness clients
- prepare exercise session
- prescribe exercises
- collect client fitness information
Transversal competences
- inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits
- show professional responsibility
- promote healthy lifestyle
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences