How to become a Fitness Therapist

A fitness therapist is an individual who provides fitness guidance to help clients promote their physical health status. They create tailor-made fitness and wellness programs for individuals and large groups. They prescribe workout cycles based on clients' physical requirements and keep a check on their developments. A physical therapist attends to grown-ups and children to help them heal from injuries or chronic diseases. They also provide a helping hand with cardiac rehabilitation. A fitness therapist's function is to manage patients so that they can return to their standard capabilities as much as possible. Fitness therapy is a kind of treatment that uses fitness postures, breathing practices, meditation, and supervised imagery to enhance mental and physical health. They focus on the holistic development of fitness therapy, supporting an individual's mind, body, and spirit.

The roles and responsibilities handled by a fitness therapist are:

• They plan, prepare or carry out exclusively created plans of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical condition. These conditions can be hampering of basic functioning, release pain, limit physical dysfunction in patients.
• They must administer and document an initial examination of the client to identify problems to get a better hand in diagnosis before investigation.
• They must instruct the patient as well as family members about the treatment processes that need to be continued at home.
• They must have a thorough discussion with the patients, medical experts and other appropriate people to plan, execute and evaluate the intervention program.
• They need to notify their patients and assign them to relevant experts when a diagnosis is made and findings suggest an option outside physical therapy.
• They must identify and record goals, expected progress and strategies of reevaluation.
• They must connect clients to community sources or services for a better overall experience.
• They are required to guide and teach physical therapy scholars or those in another wellness sector.
• They are expected to conduct as well as support researches. They must also apply the research findings to their sessions.

• The ability and skills required to become a fitness therapist are skills like active listening. This helps them give full attention to what problem the client is concentrating on. Asking appropriate questions and keeping in mind not to interfere while inappropriate times. 
• They must possess critical thinking skills. This helps them use logic and reasoning skills to recognise the strengths and weaknesses and alternative solutions to the problems faced by the clients.
• Their reading comprehension skill must also be strong enough to help them understand work-related written material. Finally, they must be service-oriented, which means they are expected to actively study new ways to help people.
• They must also have an excellent level of ability and understanding of fitness. In addition, they must be good at conveying complex ideas to a wide range of people. Also, an ability to empathise with people of different abilities is a must. 

• Self employed therapists
• Online therapists
• Part time therapists