Aerobics Instructors and Fitness Trainers

Most weight training and aerobics classes are held indoors. Depending on the class's popularity and instructor, aerobics classes can get crowded and hectic. Instructors must keep a level head and a positive, outgoing personality to motivate and keep people together. Aerobics instructors must make the class enjoyable yet challenging so members will return to class afterward. They also need to be unaffected by complaints from class members, some of whom may find the routines too hard or too easy or who may not like the music selections. Instructors need to realize that these complaints are not personal attacks.

Fitness trainers need to be able to work one-on-one with amateur, professional, and nonathletes. They may work with individuals in pain after an injury and must be able to coax them to use muscles they would probably rather not. Trainers must possess patience, especially for beginners or those not athletically inclined, and offer encouragement to help them along.