Spring/Summer Semester Fitness Internship (Kingsport, TN)
HealthFitness•Kingsport, TN
•Onsite
About The Position
HealthFitness offers students an internship at a corporate, community, or hospital-based fitness facility to fulfill a university internship requirement and gain focused experience in a chosen career field. This opportunity is at a client site in Kingsport, Tennessee, and exposes interns to a range of fitness and health-related activities. Interns provide member supervision and fitness and wellness guidance; assist with participation data, reports, evaluations, exercise programming, events, marketing, and daily office duties; and gain supervised experience shadowing and training clients and teaching group exercise.
Requirements
- Be a junior- or senior-level bachelor's or master's student pursuing a degree in Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, Kinesiology, Recreation, Health Education, Health Promotion, or a related field at an accredited college or university.
- Hold current CPR, First Aid, and AED certifications from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross, or obtain them by the internship start date.
- Have communication skills to instruct and interact effectively with a diverse group of individuals.
Nice To Haves
- Personal Training or Group Exercise certification from ACE, ACSM, AFAA, NSCA, or NASM.
Responsibilities
- Provide supervision and fitness and wellness guidance to facility members.
- Assist in compiling participation data and completing reports.
- Perform fitness evaluations for program participants and personal training clients; summarize and interpret test data and prescribe cardiovascular and strength exercise programs for healthy individuals.
- Develop and/or implement at least one special program or event.
- Shadow a personal trainer and train a client under supervision.
- Demonstrate the ability to teach at least one group exercise class format through team teaching.
- Help market fitness and wellness programs and services through website promotions, newsletter articles, table events, social media, and other channels.
- Assist with coordinating client-site health and wellness special events.
- Instruct special fitness programs as needed.
- Assist fitness and wellness staff with day-to-day office duties.
- Attend regularly scheduled office hours and meetings.
- Perform other duties as needed or assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
