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Group Fitness Instructor Checklist
The checklist (12 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Group Fitness Class checklist in the Gym / Fitness studio starter set, filed under Floor, and every item here is editable.
- 1Set up the room and equipment before class time
- 2Started the class on time
- 3Asked first-timers and anyone with injuries to speak upMust pass
- 4Explained the workout before starting it
- 5Demonstrated each movement before members tried it
- 6Gave an easier and a harder option for each movement
- 7Corrected unsafe form straight awayCritical
- 8Kept music volume low enough for cues to be heard
- 9Watched the whole room throughout the class
- 10Included a warm-up and a cool-down
- 11Finished on time
- 12Reset the room for the next class
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What usually goes wrong
Correcting unsafe form straight away is the critical item, and in a group it is the one most often skipped. The instructor is mid-cue with music playing, and stopping to fix one person feels like slowing everyone down. That pause is the job.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Corrected unsafe form straight away
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this checklist: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Group Fitness Class specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Checklists that pair with this one
Someone trained on this one most often covers these alongside it, which makes them the sensible second checklist to train.
Common questions
Does a certified instructor still need a sign-off?
A certification says they know the material. A sign-off says you have watched them deliver it to your members in your room. They answer different questions, and the second is the one that predicts how a class actually goes.
What should be on a group fitness instructor checklist?
The 12 items above cover it: set up the room and equipment before class time, started the class on time, asked first-timers and anyone with injuries to speak up, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this checklist, one item is marked critical: corrected unsafe form straight away. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Group Fitness Class checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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