The essential quality of a fitness coach is the foundation and condition for the best fitness coach to work professionally. Without these qualities, it is impossible to become a qualified and competent fitness instructor. According to the professional characteristics and job responsibilities of fitness coaches, fitness coaches must have professional ethics, scientific and cultural qualities, working ability, physical and mental qualities and appearance.

Professional ethics and fitness coach's professional ethics are the moral norms and codes of conduct that fitness coaches should follow in their work. Understanding the basic principles and norms of professional ethics of fitness coaches, strengthening their own professional ethics cultivation and consciously practicing professional ethics norms are important conditions and requirements for becoming qualified fitness coaches. The professional ethics principle of fitness coach is the most basic moral requirement for fitness coach's work and the basic standard to measure fitness coach's work behavior and quality.

Vocational skills:

Professional skills: master sports anatomy, sports physiology, sports nutrition, sports psychology, physical fitness test and evaluation, resistance exercise, pilates, rehabilitation, fighting and functional training. In addition, in recent years, small group class coaches have appeared, and they should also master some abilities to teach small group classes.

Second, transferable skills: communication, sales, service awareness, teamwork, execution, self-thinking, learning, management and other general skills.

Third: self-management ability: persistence, perseverance, helping others, pressure resistance and other excellent qualities.