The role as defined by Fitness Australia for a Certificate III Fitness – Gym Instructor is:

• Works within predictable settings such as a fitness facility, recreation or community facilities
  
  
• Provides individually tailored client assessments, program development, program demonstration and client reviews
  
  
• Provides supervision of a facility or service (i.e. observing client use of facilities, providing technique correction as needed, keeping equipment clean/tidy/well-maintained, being available for customer inquiries or assistance)
  
  
• Typically reports to a manager but is not always directly supervised during work duties
  
  

Professional Scope and Boundaries:

A Registered Exercise Professional as outlined by Fitness Australia with the category of a Gym Instructor and/or Group Exercise Instructor has a scope of practice that includes:

• Pre-exercise health screening
  
  
• Safety and risk assessment and management
  
  
• Application of first aid to clients where required
  
  
• Fitness assessment and analysis in accordance with knowledge and skill obtained through qualification and/or continuing education
  
  
• Development of safe, effective and appropriate exercise programs tailored to client or group needs
  
  
• Exercise delivery inclusive of demonstrating, instructing, monitoring, reviewing and modifying program content including technique, method and progression
  
  
• Working within professional limitations to provide basic healthy eating information and advice through the application of nationally endorsed nutritional standards and guidelines.
  
  
• Provision of general nationally endorsed public health information that will educate and support positive client health outcomes