Fitness Instructor Resume

A fitness instructor resume revolves around several aspects of the candidate's professional background, bringing into spotlight his professional qualities, strengths, and expertise. While it acts as an efficient medium promoting your career related interests, it also acts as an effective marketing tool that represents your profile with adequate enhancement. Comprising of your contact details, an executive summary, your key skills, educational and employment history, accomplishments, and references, your resume is like a profile reader. Although it works for you, it has to be employer-centered, meaning that all the information that it projects should perfectly comply with the specifications of the job that you are seeking. Generally, candidates contact their employers and discuss their needs, and if time permits introduce the recruiters to their profiles. This is a great practice as it gives you a vivid picture as to what you need to include in your resume, and how to present it with enhancement.

Include an executive summary

Start your resume with an effective career objective, immediately following the contact details, as shown below in the fitness trainer resume sample. Observe the sentence formations, and try to club 2-3 important pieces of information together into one brief, yet highly informative sentence. As you proceed, include a profile summary, showing 6-8 significant features that reflect your professional background. The idea is to summarize your experience into a small section, with better visibility and readability. This also facilitates adequate space planning, restricting your resume to one page only, which is ideal in your scenario. Pay careful attention to the arrangement of information, and while you're at it, take care not to include any mundane elements that has low or no relevance to the position that you are seeking.

Zoom in on your skills:

Following the summary, include a section dedicated to display your strengths, knowledge, and skills, describing in about 5-6 bulleted points. Here, mention your ability in personal training, highlighting your knowledge in the anatomy of the human body. Refer to the sample resume below, and try to grasp the idea of customization. Simply highlighting your skills using bullets isn't enough, you need put them forth in the best possible manner. And for that, you need to frame smart sentences, avoiding any traces of "I","my", or "me".

Educational details and employment history need not be elaborated. Keep them just as shown below in the example. You may also include your extra curricular activities or your involvement in sporting activities. If you have won any rewards so far, you are most welcome to include the information as your accomplishments, provided that the details hold utmost relevance to the job profile as a personal fitness instructor.

See below for a free sample of a personal fitness instructor resume, and refer to its layout and organization.

Lucille C. Stevens
2843 Rose Street
Hickory Hills, IL 60457
(708) 237-2799
lucille.stevens@email.com

Objective:

Personal Fitness Instructor with over 4 years of experience in conducting fitness training sessions and drawing exercise programs, seeks an opportunity to further advance within the industry by sharing the vision of your health club and aiding it's growth as a potential competitor in the target market.

Executive Summary:

• Identified training needs and designed customized exercise structures for muscle gain as well as weight loss
• Demonstrated specific physical activities and the proper ways to use all equipment, monitoring incorrect use of equipment
• Scheduled exercise sessions, considering the clients' convenience, and delivered exercise workshops
• Conducted breathing exercises and recreational activities for motivation and inspiration, using communication as the prime tool
• Constantly monitored the progress of clients, analyzed the effectiveness of exercise programs, making suitable changes as required
• Coordinating and conducting instructional sessions on nutrition, health, and lifestyle
• Responsible for the cleanliness of the gym, coordinated with other trainers for proper maintenance of equipment
• Involved in constant research to keep updated of new studies and emerging technologies

Skills and Abilities:

• Sound knowledge of aerobics, boxercise, aquarobics, and step aerobics
• Knowledge of basic human anatomy and physiology of exercises
• Well versed with fundamental safety and health hazards and corresponding first aid procedures
• Self-motivated, organized, and energetic, with good sense of responsibility and healthy socializing
• Experienced in weight training and circuit training
• Efficient in multitasking, time management, up-selling, and task prioritizing

Work Experience:

2007 - present
World of Fitness
95th Street, Hickory Hills, IL
Personal Fitness Instructor

Professional Qualification:

References:

Available upon request

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