77213 20200716101525.0 sideral 110566 ART-2019-110566 spa (orcid)0000-0002-5535-6974 Estrada-Marcén N. Universidad de Zaragoza Professional profile of workers in the fitness sector in the city of Zaragoza [Perfil profesional de los trabajadores del sector del fitness en la ciudad de Zaragoza] 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Currently, the Fitness sector is booming in our country, which leads to a significant increase in jobs related to it. However, the profile of its workers has barely been studied. The purpose of this work is to describe the characteristics of professionals employed in fitness centers in a representative city at a national level such as Zaragoza (Spain). Said description is made by the Technical Directors and/or coordinators of the contracting centers. In the consumer sector the Aragonese capital is usually the city that best represents the Spanish socioeconomic reality, since it has a large size, located halfway between Madrid, Barcelona and Euskadi. Zaragoza meets the conditions to represent well the Spanish average in many market studies. 19 centers participated in the study and their technical directors or coordinators completed a questionnaire created for this purpose. The percentages of men and women working in the sector in the city of Zaragoza are very close. The work centers usually establish incentive policies of continuous training, sharing their expenses frequently between worker and company (79%). The vast majority of centers have at least one graduate in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, who performs tasks of monitorer or instructor in most cases. When it comes to hiring professionals of a fitness center, work experience prevails in front of the skills in the position, personality, or education degree, respectively. © Federacion Espanola de Docentes de Educacion Fisica. All rights reserved.e by the Technical Directors and/or coordinators of the contracting centers. In the consumer sector the Aragonese capital is usually the city that best represents the Spanish socioeconomic reality, since it has a large size, located halfway between Madrid, Barcelona and Euskadi. Zaragoza meets the conditions to represent well the Spanish average in many market studies. 19 centers participated in the study and their technical directors or coordinators completed a questionnaire created for this purpose. The percentages of men and women working in the sector in the city of Zaragoza are very close. The work centers usually establish incentive policies of continuous training, sharing their expenses frequently between worker and company (79%). The vast majority of centers have at least one graduate in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, who performs tasks of monitorer or instructor in most cases. When it comes to hiring professionals of a fitness center, work experience prevails in front of the skills in the position, personality, or education degree, respectively. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.317 2019 Education 2019 Q3 Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 2019 Q3 Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2019 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Sanz Gonzalo G. (orcid)0000-0002-0575-3541 Casterad Seral J. Universidad de Zaragoza Simón Grima J. Roso Moliner A. 3001 187 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Expres.Music.Plást.Corp. Área Didáctica Expres.Corporal 1006 245 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Fisiatría y Enfermería Área Educación Física y Depor. 35 (2019), 185-190 Retos (Madr.) Retos 1579-1726 https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/retos/article/download/63892/40838 Texto completo de la revista 77480 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/77213/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 137795 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/77213/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:77213 articulos driver 2020-07-16-09:29:52 ARTICLE