“Gym Instructor based Frequently Asked Questions by expert members with experience as Gym Instructor. These questions and answers will help you strengthen your technical skills, prepare for the new job test and quickly revise the concepts”
My personal favorites are the elliptical, stationery bike and treadmill. These three equipments are most commonly used and most enjoyed by clients in addition to being the most effective ones.
In my experience upbeat music and weight loss competitions are two things that really motivate an aerobics group.
It is true that people are intelligent enough to be able to use gym machinery. However, it is a gym instructor’s duty to train them anyway so that they are also aware of the potential hazards of the machine that they are using.
☛ Why did you decide to become a fitness trainer?
☛ Are you CPR-certified? What other certifications do you hold?
☛ How do you keep your fitness training knowledge up to date?
☛ What group classes have you taught? In your group classes, explain how you accommodate varying skill and fitness levels.
☛ What diet and nutrition education have you received?
☛ What experience do you have with customer service? Describe how you handle customer service situations involving difficult fitness center members or prospective members.
☛ Walk me through how you start a class from the very beginning to the end of the warm up.
☛ How important is nutrition to you in creating a client's regimen?
☛ What evaluations do you conduct with a new client eager to begin a fitness regimen?
☛ Describe your time management approach for assisting individual clients versus group workout classes.
☛ Describe how you handle a client who is unhappy with your work, or a client who doesn't achieve her goals, when you know the problem is with her level of motivation.
☛ Tell me about a time when a client was unhappy with your work. How did you handle the situation?
☛ Imagine a client is discouraged during a training session. How do you keep him motivated?
☛ If a client complains about a previous injury, how do you handle that when constructing a fitness regimen for her? What do you do to prevent further injury or to discourage the client from engaging in activities -- during the client session or working out on her own -- that would exacerbate a pre-existing condition?
☛ What techniques use to increase your clientele? What are your goals for increasing the number of clients you serve?
☛ What are your thoughts about organic food? What are your thoughts on a vegan diet? When you encounter a client or prospective fitness club member who is committed to a diet that differs from your own, how do you remain objective?
☛ Give me an overview of a training program you would set up for a client strictly looking for weight loss and toning? What do you tell clients who are looking for instant results?
☛ Do you have fitness goals for yourself? If so, what are they?
☛ Give me three essential exercises you suggest for all clients? Why are these in your top three?
☛ Give me an example of a decision you made that benefited your company.
☛ Describe the time period and circumstances when you became self-supporting.
☛ What motivates you?
☛ In your last internship, what tasks did you spend most of your time on and why?
☛ What can you offer us?
☛ What sports are you/have you been involved in?
☛ What do you prefer: recruitment or selection?
☛ What makes you feel proud about your job?
☛ What are your regrets?
☛ What are your pet peeves?
☛ What do you expect to learn from this job, that you're not currently getting?
☛ Describe the last time that you undertook a project that demanded a lot of initiative.
☛ Would you go there again? Where would you go instead?
☛ Would you be willing to take a salary cut?
☛ How do you communicate goals to subordinates?
☛ What negative thing would your last boss say about you?
☛ Why did you choose your major?
☛ You have not done Fitness Instructor job before. How will you succeed?
☛ Tell me about an important goal that you set in the past.
☛ How do you establish good communication and information flow with others?
☛ Why are you leaving your present job?
☛ What have you done to improve your verbal communication skills?
☛ Tell about a time that you had to adapt to a difficult situation.
☛ On taking this Fitness Instructor job, what would be your major contribution?
☛ What was your major disappointment?
☛ Have you ever had to introduce a policy change to your work group?
☛ Give an example of when you had to present complex information in a simplified manner.
☛ How would you describe the experience of working as Fitness Instructor?
☛ What does a person need to be a good gymnastics teacher?
☛ Where do you see yourself in five years?
☛ What part of this job do you think would be most important?
☛ How would you handle a six-year old boy who wouldn’t stand where you told him?
☛ What would you do with a crying three-year-old?
☛ What would you do with a four-year-old who wouldn’t participate?
☛ What if a child was hitting another student?
☛ Finish these sentences: What children want most from a class is… What parents want most from a class is… The best way for a child to learn is … I would discipline a child by…
☛ What does positive reinforcement mean?
☛ What is the maximum number of kids you can handle in class?
☛ What is your favorite event to teach and why?
☛ When wouldn’t you be able to sub?
☛ What is the hardest skill you can demonstrate and why is that important?
☛ What is your greatest asset that you could bring to this company?
☛ What is it about you that has made you successful so far?
☛ What is the age group you most prefer to teach? Can you be silly? You’ve got to be silly to teach kids.
☛ What would you do if you saw a peer stealing money, stamps, or equipment?
☛ What would you do if you smelled alcohol on a coach’s breath and knew they had been drinking before class?
☛ Get up and teach me a cartwheel
☛ Do you have any past injuries or health problems?
☛ What type of people do you like to work with?
☛ Why were you transferred/promoted?
☛ What two to three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction?
☛ What major challenges and problems did you face?
☛ What contributions do you think that you could make to this company?
☛ What do you feel are your outstanding qualities?
☛ What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year?
☛ What qualities should a successful manager possess?
☛ What kind of person are you?
☛ What would you do differently if you were in charge of this company?
☛ What is your definition of intelligence?
☛ Tell me about a problem you solved in a unique way.
☛ What qualifications do you have that make you think that you will be successful?
☛ Why did you contact me?
☛ What is your philosophy of personal training?
☛ How many members does the health club have?
☛ What’s the average age of a member of the health club?
☛ What do you feel is the biggest issue facing your fitness department today?
☛ How many clients does your average personal trainer have?
☛ How many clients does your average personal trainer see per day?
☛ What is the split in revenue between the club and the personal trainer? Tip 50/ 50 is usually average.
☛ How do personal trainers obtain their clients?
☛ Are personal trainers only paid when doing personal training or is there an hourly wage also?
☛ Do personal trainers with more fitness certs make more money per client?
During the initial assessment and first few days I am usually able to judge the client’s potential by observing their performance and do not push them further than that. One indication of client’s threshold is that the client stops enjoying the workout after a certain time. That for me is the biggest pointer that the person has reached his or her limit.
☛ What is health?
☛ What do you mean by exercises?
☛ What is the basic purpose of exercises?
☛ What is warm-up? What is its importance?
☛ Which exercises are done for warm-up?
☛ In which sequence are warm-up exercises done? And why?
☛ What are the different categories of exercises?
☛ What are cardio exercises? What is their main purpose? Give some examples?
☛ What is interval cardio?
☛ What is weight training? What is its main purpose?
☛ What is resistance training? What is its main purpose?
☛ What is the difference between weight training and resistance training?
☛ What is a body-building schedule?
☛ Which exercises are done for development of shoulders? (He may ask about any other muscle group.)
☛ What is cool-down? What is its importance?
☛ How is cool-down done?
☛ What is the relation between warm-up and cool-down?
☛ Besides health, what are the other things necessary for good health?
☛ How is frequent sex or masturbation dangerous to health?
☛ What is the psychological relation between character and health?
I would use good music, keep entusiastic, make the class enjoyable by keeping it fresh and challenging the clients.
I have never forgotten my dream of driving Formula One!
I would be very approachable and likeable. I would always keep a smile on my face and approach clients where I see fit and engage in conversation.
First of all I like to help people and I like to motivate people. And also my dad has diabetes and I would like to help people like my dad who have diabetes and struggle with their health and get them to a place of optimum health and fitness.
Be honest here -- but also keep in mind that the employer might be trying to understand what you’re passionate about and what you’ll be well-suited to do at the facility. If the employer is looking for someone to do extensive weight training workouts with clients, for example, it might be a good idea to tell him that you enjoy weight training.
I am an expert in designing and implementing personalized exercise and diet programs based on the clients’ goals and targets. I also have profound ability to recruit and retain clients, provide fitness equipment handling instructions and assess clients on regular basis. I am an expert in directing rehabilitation exercises following a sports or other injury.
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