Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a personal trainer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a personal trainer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Personal trainers design, implement and evaluate exercise or physical activity programmes for one or more individual clients by collecting and analysing client information. They strive to ensure the effectiveness of personal exercise programmes. A personal trainer should also actively encourage potential clients to participate in and adhere to regular programmes, employing appropriate motivational strategies.

Also known as personal trainer and sport therapist, personal progress manager, personal trainer and nutritionist, personal trainer & nutritionist, personal fitness trainer, well-being personal trainer, personal coach, personal trainer & sport therapist.

Technicians and associate professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: sport therapist, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
sport therapist 75% covered fitness instructor 62% covered pilates teacher 55% covered leisure attendant 47% covered sports instructor 25% covered personal trainer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from personal trainer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a personal trainer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A personal trainer needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • integrate principles of training communication, collaboration and creativity
  • adapt fitness exercises communication, collaboration and creativity
  • collect client fitness information information skills
  • integrate exercise science to the design of the programme assisting and caring
  • identify customer objectives communication, collaboration and creativity
  • inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits communication, collaboration and creativity
  • motivate fitness clients management skills
  • prepare exercise session management skills
  • prescribe exercises assisting and caring
  • provide fitness information communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a personal trainer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Personal trainer is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a personal trainer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.