personal trainertosport therapist
A personal trainer already meets 75% of what the sport therapist role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 30.3 of 100 · moderate
1 Share of the sport therapist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the personal trainer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A sport therapist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a personal trainer background worth leading with.
- already held integrate principles of training communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held adapt fitness exercises communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held collect client fitness information information skills
- already held integrate exercise science to the design of the programme assisting and caring
- already held inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held motivate fitness clients management skills
All 16 carried skills, including the 15 the sport therapist role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 5 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held prescribe exercises for controlled health conditions required
- required, not held attend to fitness clients under controlled health conditions required
- required, not held manage fitness communication required
- required, not held conduct fitness risk assessment required
- required, not held identify health objectives required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a sport therapist role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 conduct fitness risk assessment skill · occupation specific
- 02 identify health objectives skill · occupation specific
- 03 prescribe exercises for controlled health conditions skill · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 16 skills that carry over
- already held adapt fitness exercises skill
- already held analyse personal fitness information skill
- already held assess physical conditions of clients skill
- already held collect client fitness information skill
- already held correct potentially harmful movements skill
- already held demonstrate professional attitude to clients skill
- already held ensure safety of exercise environment skill
- already held inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits skill
- already held integrate exercise science to the design of the programme skill
- already held integrate principles of training skill
- already held motivate fitness clients skill
- already held prepare exercise session skill
- already held prescribe exercises skill
- already held promote healthy fitness environment skill
- already held show professional responsibility skill
- already held provide fitness information skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
11 held skills the sport therapist role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role communicate with youth skill
- not needed by the target role develop codified movements skill
- not needed by the target role evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves skill
- not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
- not needed by the target role human physiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify customer objectives skill
- not needed by the target role monitor children's physical development skill
- not needed by the target role nutrition of healthy persons knowledge
- not needed by the target role older adults' needs knowledge
- not needed by the target role promote healthy lifestyle skill
- not needed by the target role sports nutrition knowledge
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.