What personal skills or qualities are needed to become a Sports Trainer?
A Sports Trainer, also sometimes called an Athletic Trainer, is one who is engaged in teaching and showing people specific methods and techniques for preventing or minimizing injuries while playing or performing sports activities. Sports Trainers might work directly for sports teams, where they are responsible for training team members how to bend, squat, jump, run, slide, throw, swing, and carry out a variety of other sports maneuvers without causing injury to themselves (and others). Some Sports Trainers might work for public gyms and other exercise venues, where they would be responsible for training patrons and customers how to prevent or minimize injuries while performing exercise workouts; on equipment or off. Sports Trainers need to be physically fit, since their work requires active participation in many cases. Frequently, Sports Trainers lead groups of people in exercise routines. Sports Trainers also need to be well-versed in their particular sports venue; that is, a Sports T
