Career and Job in the Indian Fitness Industry
Why youth has been choosing fitness as a career? What they must do if they decide to launch a career in here? This article gives an overview of careers and job opportunities in Indian Fitness industry.
In today's time, along with being fit, people join gym to enhance their look and develop an impactful personality. People are trying to inculcate healthy habits to avoid falling ill again and again, boost their immunity against viruses and increase their stamina to perform well and deliver on work front as well as spend active quality time at home with family. The demand of their specific health goals has created a huge space for fitness as a career.
Fitness industry has fast-emerging career options not only in India but all over the world. Ever since the corona disease has come, the fitness industry has suffered a lot. But one thing is sure that gyms are here to stay, viruses might come and go. People’s interest in healthy lifestyle has increased by leaps and bounds and more of them are keen to go to gym. Hence the demand for fitness trainers and coaches is increasing rapidly. Different fitness trainers cater to different types of fitness techniques and some of them specialize in all of them. They can guide you according to your medical condition, you body type and your fitness goals. Fitness trainers who are rehabilitation experts, are even helping chronic patients recover from their illnesses and can deliver what doctors alone cannot do for the patients.
How to become a trainer?
There are many people who want to make fitness their career but due to lack of the right information, they do not understand what they have to do, how their career shall start, how to upgrade their qualifications, etc. Some people even get misguided or get trapped in fraud shortcuts.
Today we will tell you to know what you must do to land a career in the fitness industry and how you will be able to understand things easily and focus well on your career.
1. First of all you have to decide your niche about what kind of trainer you wish to become
2. After that you have to learn according to your niche, how training is done and how different people are trained. You have to do diploma for that or there are authentic fitness academies like Class Fitness Academy where they provide certifications.
3. After taking training, you have to learn how to handle clients, how to connect to them and work on their fitness case-histories
4. The first step is to learn by yourself, experience on the basis of training specific clients and then move on to work for fitness organizations
Types of trainers
1. Sports and athletic trainer
2. Trainer for competitive bodybuilders
3. Weight loss and weight maintenance trainer
4. Physical recovery and rehabilitation trainer
6. Floor Fitness trainer (in gyms and fitness clubs)
7. Lifestyle trainer / Transformation trainer
8. Physique trainer
9. Rehabilitation expert
10. Group fitness trainer (yoga, pilate, suspension, Zumba, etc.)
Job opportunities
Initially as a fitness trainer, you get 10,000-12,000 but when you get experienced then your salary also starts increasing and your salary increases to 30,35,000-40,45,000 along with some people There is also 1-2 lakhs per month. When the experience increases, trainers start charging per hour also charge up to 1000-4000 per hour. Your salary, it depends the most on how much experience you have, how old are you, how many successful cases you have handled well.
In short, you can do all that is mentioned below and opportunities keep expanding here:
1. You can write a fitness blog
2. You can open youtube channel related to your fitness
3. You can create your fitness-related account on Instagram where your followers can follow your fitness tips and trick
4. Can advertise body and health-related products on Instagram, YouTube
5. You can become a fitness trainer and coach
6. You can open your own gym/fitness club and train people in it
