Make Your Love of Fitness Your Job – A Fitness Career!

Your Fitness Career!!

Do you love spending time in the gym? Is exercise your meditation? When you think of doing something relaxing and fun, does it involve an outdoor activity, such as running or hiking? Does everyone come to you about anything fitness or nutrition related? Then it may be time for you to consider a rewarding career in the fitness industry!

Take the hobbies you love and turn them into a rewarding fitness career that allows you to do what you love, add value to other people’s lives and make good money doing it. Spend your days helping others get in shape and feel better about themselves. Remember the old saying ” Do what you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life’ ” Start from a place of passion and make it happen.

Check out these ways to take what you love and turn it into a fitness career.

First and foremost, it is most important to get your personal training certification from a reputable college for fitness professionals. There are several fitness certifications you can get depending on what your primary focus is going to be with your career path. Infofit’ s courses prepare you to write several certifications. These would include American Council on Exercise (ACE), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) and National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).  Contact Infofit to learn more about which certification is right for you.

Believe Your Dream And Make Fitness Your Career

Before you start applying for jobs, think about what area of fitness interests you the most. Check out fitness clubs or studios that specialize in what you love to do with your workouts. Spend time there doing some workouts to see what the atmosphere is like as a “client or member”. Find the trainers that you would like to aspire to be like and ask if you can shadow them for a few sessions. Offer them an incentive like buying them lunch.  Take the time to research your choices, a little leg work and some volunteer work, can save you valuable time.

When you have decided where you would like to work, remember to keep yourself current with what is going on in the health and fitness industry.  All certifications require you to have continuing education credits or CECs as a way of improving the quality of leadership in the fitness industry. Many of the trade magazines have articles that can earn you credits. Contact Infofit and they can help you walk the path of continual learning by hosting or putting on lectures and workshops that provide you with CECs. Infofit provides you with many professional development and continuing education courses across a wide spectrum of topics. Learn more about Continuing Education Courses.

Get social! In today’s day and age, it is imperative to be on social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.) sharing ideas, recipes and creative workouts. Start your own website and post blogs about everything you have learned. Garner attention and interest by posting articles on all of the social channels. Social media is the best way to start a following of people who think just like you! Where else can you find such a huge audience for free? Make sure you find yourself a business coach or take courses in business, if you feel this isn’t a place where you excel. Keep an ear out for some exciting business courses that Infofit will be hosting with a highly recognized and regarded international speaker.

Believe in your dream of making fitness your career.  Let Infofit guide you and know that if you focus on what you love, your passion for fitness will fulfil you.

Cathie Glennon – BCRPA/SFL