The issue is pay!

The fitness industry has seen a growing profit within the last few decades. Fitness is an ever evolving industry where music is in constant rotation, new and innovative training is constantly being updated, and it’s seen a real boom over the health conscious people making positive changes in their life to move better.

Fitness instructors are one of the biggest attractions to health and fitness centres. Bringing hundreds of people in through the doors, delivering group exercise sessions is a job that requires instructors to perform either self-made choreography or deliver an already made programme to the members of their gym. Most instructors spend countless hours learning choreography, practising in studios to ensure they look professional whilst teaching, and to solidify movements and music changes into their brains to teach amazing classes.

Instructors work just as hard as personal trainers, if not harder, as they are physically required to demonstrate routines from start to finish. Personal trainers have more earning potential, being able to deliver countless sessions back to back, where as instructors are limited due to the physical strain on the body. Instructors have worked physically and mentally more than any other health fitness and leisure position in the business, yet it seems every other department besides group exercise has received annual increases in pay, whilst the Instructors have remained on the same wages for 20 years!