Honestly the fitness field has become an utter joke.
Many fitness corporations are hiring individuals with only a high school degree and are predicating their entire search criteria on sales experience and communication skills. Individuals who accrue a single personal training certification are calling themselves fitness professionals which is mind boggling to say the least. I also find that many managers have an overtly biased outlook on personal training certifications and place an emphasis on hiring individuals who are certified with the same organization.
I think that’s a really general biased comment.
This industry is run on integrity, education, professionalism and experience but just like any other industry there is nothing that is mandatory
If you want to be a desired trainer: you need to be smart and able to do the work.
It’s not just about the money
Once you fill in your Fitness Connect info the discussion may change, but you have no qualifications listed
Urban,
It is the choice of the fitness professional to earn one certification or several. Number of certifications is not an indication of professionalism.
I’d like to use Peter and Kathie Davis as examples. Would you really describe the portal on which you respond and post questions to be a “utter joke.”
I am curious to know what are your intentions on this portal. Is it to edify the industry or tear it down?
I’d like to take this opportunity to encourage you to seek to find ways to refine areas in our industry that you deem need refinement and use your knowledge and expertise to effect such change. TEAM!!!
TOGETHER EVERYBODY ACHIEVES MORE.
Best to you.
Urban Meyer- your profile also lacks credentials, a degree, background, experience or anything else related to getting professionally recognized in the fitness industry.
When it comes down to it, many of the big box gyms do emphasize selling products to clients. That is where the profit margins lie. As in any field, there are good and bad professionals.
I may have only a BS and CPT certification, but I’d pit my strength training, athletic, bodybuilding, powerlifting and strongman lifting experience against any PHD/ Masters degree level Therapist or Doctor.
They can know how to best rehabilitate a muscle with a basic exercise, but I’ll be able to show a person with that healthy muscle how to lift it stronger, faster, and in a myriad of different ways.
There are too many factors to take into account when evaluating the performance of a personal trainer or fitness professional.