What jobs can I get with my B.A. Exercise Physiology

could probably just start your own coaching business

I feel like it’s more transferable to anesthesia, but I’m biased.

1. Do I just move to altitude (Flagstaff) etc... Then Coach at cheap prices.

Or

2. Do online coaching (cringe)

I think it's safe to say that the world is your MF oyster.

If you want a more practical job with benefits etc, try corporate wellness.

My former employer:

https://corporatefitnessworks.com/

You and thousands of others are competing for hundreds of coaching jobs

Alan

Selling gym memberships at LA Fitness.

If your grades are good and you’re a good student, you have a lot of options.

If you had the appropriate pre med classes, there’s medical school. Someone already mentioned that.

I have 3 friends that have daughters with that degree. One is currently getting her degree in physical therapy, one in occupational therapy, and another is studying to be a physicians assistant.

Trainer at Planet Fitness

k12 gym teacher

Become a teacher of exercise physiology at a college. Maybe athletic trainer for some school. It seems like those people were always being replaced each year

GnomeBe wrote:

I want to be an assistant coach in a college or university.

Are there any other opportunities?

Is this about whether a BS is better than BA?

Anyway, you should look into this with your exercise physiology department and career office.

Other actual non-troll options:

Go back to school for your DPT. Physical Therapy schools are extremely competitive though.

Get your CSCS and work as a Strength and Conditioning Coach. Very much a "who you know" not "what you know" career path but top Strength Coaches make enormous amounts of money. You'll make pennies starting out because your undergrad didn't really teach you how to lift. Most programs lump all their Olympic sports under one roof, so you won't be working with just track athletes.

Get a personal trainer cert. NASM has a ton of options. Work as a trainer in a gym or from home.

Work in Cardiac Rehab. ACSM cert most likely needed.

Work in corporate wellness. CFW was the employer I mentioned before, but there are others.

Try it for a few years. If you don't like the money you are making you can still join the Army! :) TBH the ceiling with just an undergrad degree in Exercise Physiology is pretty low....unless you go into medical sales or something unrelated to your degree.

Alan

If you want to coach that is a perfect major, start down the coaching path… either volunteer or get a grad assist job someplace (great option because you can get a grad degree for cheap/free and get your foot in to door of the coaching world). Try to work at the level you want to stay at, you can always move up or down but especially in d1 it’s much easier break in if you can start at the d1 level.

coach then wrote:

If you want to coach that is a perfect major, start down the coaching path… either volunteer or get a grad assist job someplace (great option because you can get a grad degree for cheap/free and get your foot in to door of the coaching world). Try to work at the level you want to stay at, you can always move up or down but especially in d1 it’s much easier break in if you can start at the d1 level.

Ok

If your goal is to get into college coaching, then become a Graduate Assistant Coach while you are getting your Master's degree in a related area. You need coaching experience. If your real goal is exercise physiology, then you will need to eventually pursue a Doctoral degree and college teaching position. That is really the only career positions in exercise physiology. Or as others have suggested get a Master's in an allied health field. Unfortunately what no one ever told you is that a BA degree in Exercise Physiology is a basic degree with a name that replaced Physical Education. At least with a BS degree in PE you had a teaching certificate.

the guy i see for PT operates independently (but he is credentialed with a PhD in physical therapy i think) and he's pretty much booked solid with affluent hobby joggers trying to sort out their injuries. i'm sure he's making a nice solid middle class income off of that.

so if you want to have income and not live the life of poverty that trying to break into college coaching will bring, i would get some kind of PT credentials and then try to set up shop in a major metro area with a large clientele of injured hobby joggers. once you get a decent word of mouth going they will line up to pay you to recommend exercises and do "soft tissue work" on their ailments.

Old Big East wrote:

If your goal is to get into college coaching, then become a Graduate Assistant Coach while you are getting your Master's degree in a related area. You need coaching experience. If your real goal is exercise physiology, then you will need to eventually pursue a Doctoral degree and college teaching position. That is really the only career positions in exercise physiology. Or as others have suggested get a Master's in an allied health field. Unfortunately what no one ever told you is that a BA degree in Exercise Physiology is a basic degree with a name that replaced Physical Education. At least with a BS degree in PE you had a teaching certificate.

I wouldnt say those are the only careers in Ex.Phys.

Similar to coaching is the Strength & Conditioning Coach career track.

Corporate Wellness is a career, although more on the business side as you go up the ladder.

He could go the personal trainer route then open his own gym/studio. I know tons of guys who've done that with mixed success.

Anything else he would need more education.

A lot depends on what you want to call a "career".

I eventually decided the juice was not worth the squeeze and joined the Army, best career decision I ever made.

I make the equivalent of $80-85k and soon to be $85-90k a year. I have to use equivalencies given about a 1/3 of my pay isn't taxed at all and I have no state tax and no health insurance premiums.

Alan

Seems the OP is asking about jobs, not additional schooling which many are recommending. The undergrad major will probably get you a front desk job at a PT clinic earning $13 per hour.

If I could do it again I'd join the Air Force after a year or two of traveling and studying languages after high school. My brother's friend is in it and in an IT job. From what I see, the work isn't too hard and he'll have a lot of options when he gets out. Plus veterans preference. Sometimes you need to think outside the box when your preparation at university isn't good enough. I have a friend who went from teaching to mountain guide to firefighter.