As a Personal Trainer why do you think being licensed in your state would benefit you?
Benefits:
-Add’s credibility
-Removes everyone who says there a personal trainer with no certification no qualifications form the industry.
-increase pay more.
-makes it so corporate gyms have to pay their trainers more.
– allows personal trainers to be more respected as field.
– educated clients who to hire.
– credibility
– organization
– limit the amount of mis information out there because people will know who to go to.
yes granted any idiot can pass a test and nothing is perfect.
License, certification, whatever, just some kind of organization where we are all brought up to a higher standard.
There are too many cert’s out there clients don’t know any better, most trainers don’t update their knowledge or certs.
Yes I agree it’s much easier to succeed when you don’t have to worry about the bulk of the trainers out there because most have no clue about business or training so it’s easy to land clients when you have a great deal of information. You look like a genius doing basic stuff most trainers don’t even cover.
Though I would like to see our profession bar raised. We need much higher standards.