The Personal Trainer's Advocate
Dedicated to the protection of the personal training industry. Working to inform, protect, and represent personal trainers against the hostile push for regulation and legislation by self-serving pressure groups.
It is not the intent of The Trainer's Advocate to attack or oppose any one group or individual for any personal reasons. The Trainer's Advocate opposes the legislation of regulation and licensure in the personal training industry, and will only oppose initiatives and agendas that work toward, directly or indirectly, those unwanted results.
posted by The Trainer's Advocate @ 9:21 AM
1 Comments:
(12 thoughts…)
1. NBFE has 15 “Provisional Affiliates”. Coopers Institute broke away.
2. Tens of thousands of trainers, by conservative estimate, were encouraged to take the NBFE exam.
3. The exam has been available since Oct 29th 2005.
4. By my count, there were 73 trainers in the NBFE “Registry” as of approx Sept 1st, 2006.
5. Since the release of the exam, NBFE has seen very little interest from trainers to take their voluntary exam as reflected above.
6. The NBFE has learned from this, the only way to succeed is in making the exam mandatory.
7. The only foreseeable way NBFE can make their exam a requirement, is to lobby state legislatures. Even ONE would be a huge success for them.
8. Over 100 informed, high level fitness professionals and decision-makers as well as insurance company reps, health club chain reps, etc., all met at an open panel discussion at the Club Industry event in late Sept, 2005, to include NBFE reps, and it was unanimously and overwhelmingly agreed that licensure would hurt our industry. NBFE reps made no apposing comments.
9. NBFE is surveying trainers about licensure.
10. NBFE already knows via the above mentioned meeting where INFORMED industry professionals and key decision-makers stand on the issue.
11. NBFE is NOT surveying these industry professionals.
12. If NBFE pushes for licensure, they will lose any support they currently enjoy or hope to secure in the future from anyone in the fitness industry.
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