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Exercise Physiologists

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

Assess, plan, or implement fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardiorespiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.

What you’d do

  • Explain exercise program or physiological testing procedures to participants.
  • Develop exercise programs to improve participant strength, flexibility, endurance, or circulatory functioning, in accordance with exercise science standards, regulatory requirements, and credentialing requirements.
  • Provide clinical oversight of exercise for participants at all risk levels.
  • Provide emergency or other appropriate medical care to participants with symptoms or signs of physical distress.
  • Interview participants to obtain medical history or assess participant goals.
  • Demonstrate correct use of exercise equipment or performance of exercise routines.
  • Prescribe individualized exercise programs, specifying equipment, such as treadmill, exercise bicycle, ergometers, or perceptual goggles.
  • Interpret exercise program participant data to evaluate progress or identify needed program changes.

Skills that matter

  • Instructing
  • Active Listening
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Critical Thinking

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Bariatric Weight Loss Counselor
  • Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Therapist
  • Clinical Cardiac Exercise Physiologist
  • Clinical Exercise Physiologist
  • Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Practitioner
  • Certified Exercise Physiologist (Certified EP)

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