# Competences — personal trainer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f7177f79-63e7-4944-8896-044056b62523).

## Essential

- **adapt fitness exercises** (skill/competence)
- **analyse personal fitness information** (skill/competence)
- **assess physical conditions of clients** (skill/competence)
- **collect client fitness information** (skill/competence)
- **correct potentially harmful movements** (skill/competence)
- **demonstrate professional attitude to clients** (skill/competence)
- **develop codified movements** (skill/competence)
- **ensure safety of exercise environment** (skill/competence)
- **identify customer objectives** (skill/competence)
- **inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits** (skill/competence)
- **integrate exercise science to the design of the programme** (skill/competence)
- **integrate principles of training** (skill/competence)
- **motivate fitness clients** (skill/competence)
- **prepare exercise session** (skill/competence)
- **prescribe exercises** (skill/competence)
- **promote healthy fitness environment** (skill/competence)
- **promote healthy lifestyle** (skill/competence)
- **provide fitness information** (skill/competence)
- **show professional responsibility** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- communicate with youth (skill/competence)
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves (skill/competence)
- human anatomy (knowledge)
- human physiology (knowledge)
- monitor children's physical development (skill/competence)
- nutrition of healthy persons (knowledge)
- older adults' needs (knowledge)
- sports nutrition (knowledge)