Fayetteville Technical Community College Invites You to
Start Your Fitness Career Today
by HEATHER GARDNER
Fayetteville Technical
Community College is
excited to announce that
starting Fall 2013, it will
offer an associate degree
in Health and Fitness
Science. Do the topics
of fitness, nutrition, exercise science, personal
training and group exercise interest you? Does
working with different
aged populations and
motivating others sound
appealing to you? Want
According to the same statistics, the fitness industry job marto make good money by
ket is expected to increase by 24 percent by the year 2020.
doing something that
you enjoy? Would you
like to have the freedom to create your own personal work schedule?
If you answered yes, then a Health and Fitness Science degree may be
perfect for you.
As a graduate of FTCC's Health and Fitness Science program, you will
have the skills to manage a fitness center, meet the needs of fitness clients,
develop and cultivate your exercise programming ideas, lead group-exercise
classes, become a personal trainer and work with special populations to
promote health and encourage an overall better quality of life.
The career opportunities are numerous for Health and Fitness graduate.
According to the Bureau of Labor 2010 statistics, the median salary for
a fitness trainer or instructor was $31,090 per year or $14.95 per hour.
According to the same statistics, the fitness industry job market is expected
to increase by 24 percent by the year 2020. That is 10 percent faster than
the national average of all occupational growth for the same time frame. As
you can see, the fitness industry is in high demand and looking for someone like you. Come join FTCC's Health and Fitness Science program and
open your world to this amazing and rewarding fitness industry.
To learn more, contact Fayetteville Technical Community
College at (910) 678-8400 to speak with an academic counselor to learn more about
this new associate degree HEATHER GARDNER, Contributing Writer and
program and how to en- FTCC Health and Physical Education Department Coordinator. COMMENTS? Editor@
roll at FTCC.
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