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1. What is group exercise?
✔✔ A fitness class that includes various types of exercises, led in a group
environment by one or more qualified instructors.
2. Who is a group exercise instructor?
✔✔ A certified fitness professional trained to safely and effectively lead group
workout sessions for people of different fitness levels.
Responsibilities of an instructor - ANSWER✔✔1. You need to make sure that you
are "q-ing" proper body alignment
2. Provide intensity options (beginner, intermediate, and advance)
3. For you to be able to see every individual in the class
4. Make sure that you are monitoring everybody's heart rate or everyone's
intensity level
5. Provide feedback concerning participants performance (positive constructive
feedback)
6. Make sure that you are there before class and after class to answer any
questions that your participants may have especially if you have new people
(build relationships)
7. Encourage participants to select the appropriate movement depending on their
fitness level
8. Make sure that your transitions are smooth
9. Make sure that you complete first aid and CPR training
,10. Make sure that you obtain liability insurance
11. Stay current in the fitness industry (keeping certification up to date, reading
what is happening in the fitness industry, belong to different organizations)
12. Make sure you always use wavers and consent forms
13. Make sure that you have medical releases, health screenings, and
physical/fitness assessments before coming to class
14. Accident/ incident reports in place
15. When substitute teaching make sure you are there just like a regular instructor.
Never make excuses, never be apologetic it is your time to shine and provide
the best class
Business side - ANSWER✔✔1. Complete a training or certification program
2. Make sure that you obtain waivers from participants (no negligence)
3. Have medical clearance
4. Liability insurance especially if not working for gym
5. Offer a proper warm-up and stretching and proper cool down and stretching
What is an Instructor employee? - ANSWER✔✔an individual who works for a
club or a gym that answers to club management and have filled out a W2 form and
takes taxes out of your paycheck
What is an Individual contractor instructor? - ANSWER✔✔one who may go to an
apartment complex, be sent a 1099 from facility, no taxes taken from paycheck
Ways to market yourself - ANSWER✔✔1. You are your best marketer for your
class
, 2. Ask participants to bring friends
3. Promote your classes
4. Got to health fairs, put up booths
5. Book yourself to speak at different functions
What is physical fitness? - ANSWER✔✔An improved physiological state that
leads to improved health and longevity. A set of attributes that people have or can
achieve relating to their ability to perform physical activities.
Physiological-related - ANSWER✔✔Can include non-performance components
that can enhance one's ability to perform physical activity. Biological systems in
the body.
Leadership qualities of an instructor - ANSWER✔✔1. Be a good role model inside
and outside the gym
2. Demonstrate good form throughout the class
3. Be a good motivator
4. Acquire proficient communication skills
5. Project a professional and positive image (look presentable)
6. Recognize weaknesses but capitalize on strengths (correcting form)
Metabolic fitness - ANSWER✔✔The state of the metabolic systems and variables
predictive of the risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease which can favorable
be altered by increased physical activity or regular endurance exercise.