In a fitness constellation teeming with content creators who tell the same story without a shred of truth, we have forgotten, even on the part of many gyms, that the reference figure is a physicist. It’s not an avatar. He was, is, and will always be the Instructor, Trainer, Wellness Coach or PT that he is.
Fitness Industry A-Z: Maestri
Job definitions now see the use of the word “Manager” everywhere, like the parsley that goes on everything. But the most noble, ancient, responsible in a broad sense, is that of “Master”. Even for the 4.0 instructor, the really good one who still makes the difference in gyms, especially extra-metropolitan (or nearby metro) ones. However, a premise is necessary.
Instructor, Trainer, Wellness Coach, PT: Master
The historic “Arts & Crafts” schools known to past generations belonged to professions that were peculiar in their expression of craftsmanship, such as the Carpenter, the Shoemaker, the Blacksmith, the Gardener, activities that deserve to be treated with the most capital letters. of many small managers.
Remaining in the gymnastics context, it has happened in some circumstances by mothers and fathers of students followed with scrupulous attention by the undersigned, to be called “Master”. Obviously in a sporting sense. There is no more rewarding attribution than when, as an Instructor, Trainer, Wellness Coach, PT, to return to the previous discussion, you do your job at your best.
The characteristics of the “job”
Given for granted and legitimized a fitness world that advances, and not always for the better, with physical, digital and phygital methods of providing the service, the trainer who has a “profession” should have at least these qualities:
ability to draw up a quantity of excellent wellness protocols in the shortest possible time; ability to segment types of cards on all intensity levels (soft-medium-strong and then sub-segmenting); ability to homogenize sequences of exercises on a simple or complex card, also diluting the intensity and bending, where necessary, towards the duration (with lower intensity); ability to intercept the latent need of the most isolated and abandoned customer in the gym while carrying out fitness activities, a customer who is difficult to motivate; ability to mediate with the commercial areas of your fitness center, translating the customer’s economic needs into personal and personalized technical needs; ability to answer technical questions strictly respecting their truthfulness, waiting hours or days, if necessary, for a detailed and proven reply; ability to take care of one’s image in person and at a distance, both in field operations and in video activities; ability to self-correct on the fly based on feedback when drafting a protocol, modifying without fear, in the field, a personalized lesson during construction; ability to look forward, outward, update, read, write and make mistakes by trying times, ways of performing new and old exercises that not everyone knows how to perform; ability to publicly support (and privately discuss) the arguments of gym colleagues, avoiding conflicts that could explode within the Training Team; ability to “energetically” read the student-client, evaluating whether or not during that lesson he is able to carry out that protocol, which is not necessarily mandatory; ability to tailor the training plan, making it easier to use. There is no point in planning five weekly sessions if after two the program is unfeasible; ability to counteract and divert the student-client towards more congenial activities, not worrying if the student will be made to converge, for example, on water disciplines; ability to work simultaneously on details and as a whole, avoiding, for example, endless series of sit-ups if there is a skeletal imbalance; ability to “three-dimensionally” observe the student’s movement dynamics by moving around him, detaching the device once and for all; ability to promote one’s Club outside of work, both on the “terrestrial basin” and on social platforms, “digital basin”; ability to be operational within 24 hours when moving from one gym to another with the same professionalism and ethics that distinguished him in the last relationship; ability to keep one’s activity spaces in perfect order at all times, both for space optimization and user safety needs; ability to manage an emotional trainer-student situation, although ethically inappropriate, humanly verifiable during one’s professional activities; ability to always, however and everywhere, put the safety of the trained person before the mere aesthetic result.
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