Personal Trainer Job Description

Personal Trainers are recognised fitness experts who are specialists in the role of exercise in improving how the body works and functions. They instruct, inspire and motivate individuals and small groups with tailored exercise programmes that deliver their personal goals building positive long term habits.

Once you have become a qualified Personal Trainer you will be working with clients of all ages and abilities with varied exercise needs and preferences. Your Personal Trainer job role will be to ascertain their fitness goals and capabilities creating personalised training plans to help meet their needs.

A popular start point is to work in a gym or fitness centre providing a personal training service to gym members. Job descriptions and terms vary and this maybe on an employed, self-employed or contract basis. Here you will work as part of the fitness team using your recognised personal training qualifications to deliver bespoke highly tailored health and fitness programmes according to client needs.

As your skills and confidence progress you may decide it’s time to seek a more advanced role in the gym. Personal training job descriptions at this level are often orientated towards Personal Training Manager and Fitness Manager roles or alternatively you may decide it’s time to progress your PT career by setting up your own personal training business.

Personal Trainer Job Duties

Client Care

To ascertain client needs for your personal training service and ensure clients are provided with the highest level of customer service, follow up and review, tracking client progress to consistently meet these needs.

Exercise Programme Design

To create highly effective personal training programmes that deliver results according to different client capabilities.

Deliver Personal Training Sessions

To run the personal training session itself providing inspiring and motivational leadership that results in clients continuing with your personal training service.

Marketing Personal Training

To market and promote the gyms personal training services contributing to the overall success of the gym team performance and delivery of team targets.

Diary Management and Administration

To effectively book personal training sessions into your diary and manage time slots catering for different client availability and preferences – an important part of your personal trainer job description.

Enquiry Management

To respond promptly to new enquiries delivering an effective fact find and providing a clear explanation about your personal training services and appropriate choices and options available.

Provide Specialist Expertise

To demonstrate your expertise as a qualified Fitness Professional applying the learning, knowledge and practical skills acquired during your personal training course to support individual client needs

Support Gym Retention

To assist the wider gym team with relevant promotions and strategies to retain gym members and personal training clients.

Education for a Personal Trainer

If the Personal Trainer job description sounds like the type of career you’d enjoy we can provide all the training and education you need to work in the industry. Contact us using the form below or call our friendly customer service team on 0845 270 1990 and we’ll be pleased to chat through your options.