For this assignment, I interviewed my sister, Samantha Berger. She is a Group Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer. She has been working in this job for 2 years now. Before starting this career, Samantha worked as a Marketing Intern/Teller Services for Parkway Bank and Trust Company. The thing that she likes most about her job is that she is able to work with people on a daily basis on improving their health status. She says that it is a life changing job that is not only fun, but rewarding in many ways. "Not many people can say that they have aided in the process of someone progressing from a diseased state to an apparently healthy living condition," says Samantha. A challenging part of her job is creating new and fresh programs on a daily basis. The program is based off the client’s needs and interests which can become dull over time. What is harder than that, though, is throwing 60 people into a studio and trying to lead a class with several people of different fitness levels and needs. She says that trying to teach the proper form to that many people and modifying each exercise for that amount of people can be extremely challenging.
The advice that she would give to me, as someone who is interested in this field, would be to practice working with people as much as possible and start as early as I can. It would also help to take many workshops and use the professionals surrounding me for all the advice and information they can give to me. Samantha says that the fitness industry is always changing. The different fad exercise programs are changing on a monthly basis. She also says that Health and Fitness will become more and more individualized to the overweight and obese population, seeing as it is on the rise and it isn't going to slow down. This will give them a greater opportunity to make a difference and gain a greater client base.
