Screen and induct a new gym member

What is going on

Ella Marchetti, aged 34, joined on Tuesday and has been told she cannot use the gym until her screening and induction are complete. She is booked with you on Friday at 4 pm and Ollie Baxter will observe. Last week a member became dizzy on a treadmill and it turned out his screening was fourteen months old, so the Fitness Manager wants every screening completed, recorded and acted on the same day. Ella has said on the phone that she has asthma and wants to lose weight and get stronger. The cable crossover machine is out of service and the gym is busy after 5 pm.

Your brief

Complete Ella's pre-exercise screening, decide whether a referral is needed and act on it, deliver a gym induction that leaves her confident and safe on the equipment in her program, assess her goals and write a first program with a review date, recording everything in the member and client register.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the member health screening and exercise safety policy and the pre-exercise screening and program induction procedure, and prepare the screening and consent form and a private space.
• Work through the stage one questions with Ella, ask follow-up questions about her asthma and how it is managed, and take the stage two measures with her consent.
• Decide from the responses whether a medical referral is required, and if so complete the referral letter and explain what she can do until clearance, recording the outcome in the member register.
• Deliver the gym induction covering floor rules, safe use and adjustment of the equipment in her program, re-racking, emergency procedures and where to find an instructor, avoiding the tagged-out cable crossover.
• Assess Ella's movement and current fitness using assessments appropriate to her goals and screening outcome, and agree realistic short and long term goals with her.
• Write her first program with exercises, sets, repetitions, load, intensity and progression, within your scope of practice and without diet prescription, and set a review date within six weeks.
• Record the screening outcome, induction sign-off and program in the member and client register and give Ella a copy of her program.
• Write a short note for Ollie Baxter on how you handled the asthma response and what you would do if she had reported chest pain during activity.

What someone in this role would produce

• Completed pre-exercise screening and consent form
• Referral letter if required, or a recorded reason no referral was needed
• Member and client register entry with screening, induction and program
• First program with review date
• Note to the Senior Personal Trainer