As a fitness enthusiast, you probably spend every waking minute of every single day thinking about ways to stay healthy. This is both a blessing and a curse — it’s a blessing as it, of course, keeps you in good shape, and it’s a curse because it can be rather distracting. Your productivity at work sure isn’t helped as you sit there pondering how to make your next meal a healthy one!
To help you in your quest to be in the best possible physical condition that you can be in, why not get yourself a job in the fitness industry? There are plenty of career choices that will allow you to turn your passion for healthy living into a profession.
Here are five of the best career choices for fitness enthusiasts:
1. Fitness instructor
The most obvious choice for anybody who wants to forge a career in the fitness industry is to become a fitness instructor. By taking this route in your career, you would be paid to spend time in the gym helping others to reach their own health goals. You would workout alongside your clients during your working hours, and you would also have the opportunity to workout in the gym privately in-between clients.
To embark on this very healthy and highly rewarding career path, your journey will have to start by taking a Level 2 course. This instructor qualification will provide with all of the information and knowledge that is fundamental with regards to becoming a fitness instructor. You will learn all about how to handle different types of clients who come to you with different fitness desires, you will gain an insight into gym instructing as a business, and you will garner a better understanding of key motivation and management skills.
As a fitness instructor, one thing that you absolutely must be is patient. Not all of your clients will be in good shape, and not all of them will have the understanding of health and fitness that you do. This means that it could take a while to get through to particular clients — it might even mean that you do not get through to some clients at all. You have to remember, though, that, as a professional, it is paramount that you exercise patience at all times.
2. Athletic trainer
In essence, athletic trainers are the same as fitness instructors — they help others to reach their fitness goals. These two vocations do differ, though, because athletic trainers, for the most part, work with sports teams or individual sports stars rather than normal, everyday people. They work with these types of professionals to get them ready for their next big game or event, and they tend to focus more on strength and cardiovascular exercise rather than weight loss, as a fitness instructor would.
Do you feel prepared to help a major, potentially high-profile sports star get in the shape they need to be in order to succeed? Are you able to diagnose, treat, and prevent injuries? If so, you should consider becoming an athletic trainer.
3. Recreational therapist
If you’d like to help people who are sick, disabled, or injured better their standard of living through exercise, then becoming a recreational therapist could be your calling. In such a position, you would be tasked with helping a person overcome a problem that has previously held them back in some form of physical capacity. This would be achieved through you assisting them with regards to a number of different physiotherapeutic tasks and activities — you could help somebody learn to walk again, for instance.
Not only would you be tasked with helping somebody regain their physical capabilities, though. In this role, you would also have the all-important job of rebuilding a patient’s confidence. It would be down to you to keep their morale high and to keep them on track, especially when things go against them during their recuperation process. In this role, empathy is most certainly needed.
4. Nutritionist
If your passions lie in clean eating more so than in physical activity, then, fear not, as there are still career choices out there for you, the most popular one being a nutritionist. As a nutritionist, you will be responsible for cleaning up your clients’ diets and creating dietary schedules for them in a bid to better their health. Depending on who your clients are, what they do, and what their health goals are, as a nutritionist, no two days will be the same. One day you could be working alongside a client who just wants to lose weight, the next you could be working in a school in a bid to clean up the kids’ school meals, and the next you could be working for a professional athlete who needs to either lean up or bulk up for their next match.
To become a nutritionist, you’re going to need a degree in Health and Nutrition or a related field. You’re also going to need to get state license before you are able to practice as a nutritionist.
5. Yoga teacher
Yoga teachers guide their classes through various different meditation techniques. They help them to breathe in a way that relaxes them, they help them to sit in a way that aids their posture, and they help them to stretch in a way that protects their muscles. If you have a passion for yoga and think you have what it takes to share your knowledge of mediation with others, then why not head down this career path?
Formal education is not required to become a yoga teacher. Potential teachers are, however, required to train under a registered professional before they are able to take their own classes.
Don’t hold back your passion for fitness any longer. Ditch your day job and get another one that will allow you to workout, eat healthily, and stay fit throughout the duration of each day. Whether you’re suited to being a fitness instructor, an athletic trainer, a recreational therapist, a nutritionist, or a yoga teacher, one thing that you cannot deny is that there is a whole world of opportunity out there for you.
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