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How Your Fitness Career Inspires the World
When you work as a personal trainer or instructor, or build a business that provides fitness services, you are connecting with a global population that needs your expertise. Lifestyle disease, obesity, fatigue--all these can be offset by fitness. You can lead the initiatives to give people a balanced, healthy lifestyle. You have the ability to change lives. There is no profession that can do more to inspire the people of the world to a healthy lifestyle. You are the professional who makes a difference.
Is a Fitness Career Rewarding?
According the IDEA Work Satisfaction Survey of 603 IDEA members:
98% say work gives them a feeling of personal accomplishment
98% feel their jobs make good use of their skills and abilities
97% like the kind of work they do
What Is the Outlook for Jobs in Fitness?
Overall employment of recreation and fitness workers is expected
to grow
faster than the average, with employment projected to increase
21 to 35%, for all occupations through 2012, as an increasing
number of people spend more time and money on recreation, fitness,
and leisure services and as more businesses recognize the benefits
of recreation and fitness programs and other services such as
wellness programs.
Employment of fitness workers is expected to increase much faster than average due to rising interest in personal training, aerobics instruction, and other fitness activities.
(Source: Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition, USA)
4 Areas of Demand in Fitness
- Management skills are in high demand
- Personal trainers
- Specialized group instructors in yoga, pilates, indoor cycling and other specialty programs
- Bachelor degrees and above who can work with clients in post-rehabilitation or with chronic illness
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