Published: Feb 21, 2025 - The Exercise Specialist implements tailored exercise programs as part of comprehensive care plans, ensuring the safe use of equipment through one-on-one orientations and group fitness classes. This role assesses fitness levels, provides personalized exercise prescriptions based on ACSM Guidelines, and conducts personal training sessions tailored to the needs of health services residents. Additionally, this position contributes to wellness education by researching and disseminating relevant health and behavior change strategies to enhance resident well-being.

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1. Exercise Specialist, Total Fitness Solutions, Wilmington, DE
Job Summary:
- Administers physical activity programs for a variety of special populations and programs.
- Review participant medical records, assess risks, and develop individual exercise plans.
- Performs a wide variety of fitness assessments to determine an appropriate exercise plan.
- Monitors participant adherence to the physical activity prescription.
- Consult with participants regarding risk factor management for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, or other identified factor.
- Prepares and delivers cognitive-behavioral counseling lectures to participants.
- Maintains records reflecting participant progress.
- Records and updates exercise evaluations and distributes
- Assists in the development of study protocols.
- Performs other related duties incidental to work described herein.
- Participates in interdisciplinary team meetings by recommending exercise prescriptions and reporting on patient response to exercise.
- Provides maintenance of treatment areas, equipment and records.
Skills on Resume:
- Program Administration (Hard Skills)
- Medical Record Review (Hard Skills)
- Fitness Assessments (Hard Skills)
- Exercise Plan Development (Hard Skills)
- Risk Factor Management (Hard Skills)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling (Soft Skills)
- Participant Progress Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Soft Skills)
2. Exercise Specialist, Health Dynamics Clinic, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Meet with patients to assess fitness level.
- Create appropriate exercise programs for patients to support emotional and physical well-being and monitor weekly progress.
- Teach patients on proper exercise techniques.
- Educate patients and family members on proper techniques for transitioning from a facility-based fitness program to a safe and effective home exercise program.
- Design specialized strength and conditioning programs for patients.
- Identify measurable goals and objectives for the patient to reach through physical activity and exercise.
- Lead and facilitate exercise groups for patients and residents.
- Monitor all exercise activity closely for patient safety.
- Document patient progress with assigned exercise programs.
- Recognize that patient safety is a top priority.
- Collaborates with appropriate leaders in modifying treatment as the patient's status changes.
Skills on Resume:
- Patient Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Exercise Program Design (Hard Skills)
- Exercise Technique Instruction (Hard Skills)
- Home Program Education (Soft Skills)
- Strength and Conditioning (Hard Skills)
- Goal Setting (Hard Skills)
- Group Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Progress Documentation (Hard Skills)
3. Exercise Specialist, Peak Performance Health, Olympia, WA
Job Summary:
- Maintain research participant charts and files
- Enter study data in a timely manner, and prepare data summaries, process data edits, and prepare written reports
- Conduct CPET, RMR, body comp, and other testing for study subjects and participants in the HPL
- Conduct data collection procedures per study protocol
- Assist with writing grants and research papers and presentations at local, regional, and national research meetings
- Collaborate with other research partners, organizing research meetings and conference calls
- Conducting Group Exercise Classes
- Assisting the Fitness Centre Manager with the day-to-day running of the Fitness Centreư
- Assists with quality assurance projects
- Monitors around time of interpreted exams and critical results.
- Stakeholder management, risk management, resource management.
- Communicates patient's status to physician, physical therapist, clinical staff, oprations manager or nurse manager and works with other disciplines to coordinate patient's schedule and treatment programs.
- Documents daily treatment notes, attendance records, group notes, patient/family education, and charges.
- Monitors patient's performance and tolerance to the program.
Skills on Resume:
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Testing and Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Report Writing (Hard Skills)
- Paper Writing (Hard Skills)
- Research Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Group Exercise Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
4. Exercise Specialist, Active Life Center, Tallahassee, FL
Job Summary:
- Responsible for guiding the exercise development process and capturing information to develop a comprehensive After-Action Report after all exercises
- Support team in the facilitation of creative review & after-action processes, from concepting, through to development, monitoring and expanding on capabilities
- Guide and inspire the team to re-imagine the creative development process, by identifying gaps and opportunities within existing exercise efforts and assessing/highlighting creative examples to constantly enhance exercise development and planning
- Ensure thorough and accurate exercise project management & tracking for development and execution.
- Influence exercise development by identifying preparedness opportunities and supporting the development and build-out of potential exercise planning documents
- Serve as an exercise and evaluation preparedness expert within the State, understand what is currently relevant within the exercise landscape and consistently identify emerging trends and scenes to build for the future
- Contribute to cross-functional planning, leveraging strengths to create impactful exercises for the State.
- Collaborate with colleagues responsible for emergency preparedness to develop state-relevant and inspirational initiatives
- Translate exercise initiatives into relevant content and products.
- Define, lead, and represent the holistic exercise preparedness strategy relating to the statewide exercises for public health and whole community preparedness.
- Manage the implementation of exercise initiatives and rollout to internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate and manage resources, time, and project implementation partners
- Lead and deliver projects based on EPRS project management standards and principles
Skills on Resume:
- Exercise Development (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Creative Process Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Gap Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Preparedness Planning (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Strategy Implementation (Hard Skills)
5. Exercise Specialist, Wellness Path Clinic, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Demonstrates basic cardiovascular and exercise physiology, including hemodynamic response to exercise
- Assists the stress nurse coordinator with daily operational flow of the labs to ensure that patients are taken promptly
- Demonstrates clinical knowledge and skill level to administer non-invasive cardiac diagnostic testing including to exercise stress echocardiograms, oxygen consumption and non-imaging treadmill tests
- Provide the nurse with assistance before, during or after dobutamine stress echocardiograms
- Demonstrates clinical competence of appropriate test indications, contra-indications, and termination endpoints
- Prepares patients for testing including proper lead placement and skin preparation
- Monitors, records, and analyzes ECG tracings for cardiac arrhythmia and 12 lead ECGs for diagnostics purposes
- Monitors blood pressure response at all times
- Promptly recognizes abnormal responses before, during and post-test by demonstrating competency in both basic and advanced cardiac life support
- Demonstrates knowledge of various exercise protocols and indications for each
- Demonstrates knowledge of cardiovascular medications and how they may affect exercise performance, hemodynamics and the ECG.
- Assists cardiographics technicians with applying cardiac monitors including twenty-four-to-forty-eight-hour Holter monitors and thirty-day event monitors.
- Assists with oversight of the GE MUSE Cardiovascular Information system.
Skills on Resume:
- Cardiovascular Physiology (Hard Skills)
- Stress Test Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Non-Invasive Testing (Hard Skills)
- Patient Preparation (Hard Skills)
- ECG Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Abnormal Response Recognition (Hard Skills)
- Cardiac Life Support (Hard Skills)
- Medication Knowledge (Hard Skills)
6. Exercise Specialist, Body and Mind Gym, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Implements exercise programs in the plan of care.
- Assists with transferring patients on/off equipment and provides assistance with adaptive positioning to maximize safety and performance.
- Instruct all users of the facility on the proper operation of exercise equipment.
- Conduct fitness assessments, evaluate results, and present findings to residents and staff
- Provide exercise prescriptions to health services residents in accordance with current ACSM Guidelines or as established by the Wellness Director.
- Work one-on-one with health services residents for in-house personal training opportunities/requests.
- Properly conduct a variety of group fitness classes appropriate for health services residents' ability levels while ensuring that the safety of the participants is not compromised.
- Assist in the daily set up and clean up of the group exercise space in the assisted living and memory care neighborhoods to meet all class and resident needs.
- Conduct comprehensive equipment orientations to residents and staff at all levels of ability.
- Provide daily assistance to residents and staff on the safe and proper use of equipment and monitor participants for proper form and safety.
- Effectively organize and prioritize workload.
- Possess a desire to develop the knowledge base on various health issues and behavior change strategies for residents.
- Research wellness educational topics of interest and identify appropriate resident educational materials
Skills on Resume:
- Exercise Program Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Patient Assistance (Hard Skills)
- Equipment Instruction (Hard Skills)
- Fitness Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Exercise Prescription (Hard Skills)
- Group Fitness Instruction (Soft Skills)
- Safety Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Wellness Education (Soft Skills)