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Is your Personal Trainer a " Cowboy" or your gym " a backyard operation" ?

The fitness industry is totally unregulated. Doctors, lawyers, physiotherapists, massage therapists, mechanics, nurses, and even financial planners all have colleges, associations, and regulatory bodies that they must belong to and that set standards of education and updated skills.

The fitness industry has nothing.

Seriously, nothing.
Anyone can train people. Teach fitness classes. Give out nutrition advice. There is absolutely no protection whatsoever for consumers and the general public to ensure that the person they are hiring and investing their health, their LIVES, in is in anyway competent to be their coach.

People get fit and then put a squat rack in their basement and start training others. No certs. No mentors. No updated education. They just put them through all the workouts they were put through, because hey, if it worked for them it will work for everyone else.

Other people have amazing inspirational stories about how fitness changed their lives and in some cases saved their lives. I think that is fantastic! Awesome! Change the world, help and motivate others, share your experience.

But that does not qualify you to be a fitness professional.

Can you be a fitness professional? Absolutely. But you have to continue to hone and further your skills. As I have already stated – education, certification, clinics, courses, conferences. You have to keep learning and make yourself a professional. An inspirational story is just the beginning of that process.

It is scary. No regulation. No regulatory body.

There really needs to be one. Unfortunately, the industry itself fights against regulation. I believe it is because more than half the ‘professionals’ in the industry wouldn’t have a hope of passing evidence based regulation.

But until it happens we can never be taken as serious professionals. And those of us who are truly dedicated to advancing the industry with evidence-based practice have an uphill battle proving ourselves.