Personal Trainer certification question

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Surfgolden - 24 Dec 2004 02:25 GMT

I am considering a second career as a personal trainer.

I would very much like to hear some feedback on the issue of personal trainers
and the various levels and types of personal trainer certification.

Which personal training certification carries the most credibility without
requiring a medical education or background?

Please dual post here and my email, surfgolden@aol.com

Thanks in advance.

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John 'the Man' - 24 Dec 2004 14:00 GMT

Just a few obvious pointers, which of course you will never see.
Get a brain transplant, a body like Zeus, and don't quit your day job.

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Surfgolden - 25 Dec 2004 00:07 GMT

>Subject: Re: Personal Trainer certification question
>From: "John 'the Man'" johngohde@naturalhealthperspective.com
>Date: 12/24/2004 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
>
>Just a few obvious pointers, which of course you will never see.
>Get a brain transplant, a body like Zeus, and don't quit your day job.

For the record and for serious replies, my desire to become a personal trainer
is not for ego or $, but rather what seems like a next "natural" step in my own
personal fitness and lifestyle change.

In the past three years I have lost a significant amount of weight by a
committed lifestyle change. Whatever goes in my mouth has to be worked off. I
developed a personal program of increased cardiac activity and weight training
to help form the type of body I wanted to see when I looked into the mirror.

I ask the question with all seriousness and appreciate the serious responses I
have received. While I do not feel pursuing a certification that borders along
the medical and scientific professional degrees would be realistic, I also am
not looking to simply pay for a set of initials to follow my last name and
hopefully bring clients.

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John 'the Man' - 25 Dec 2004 21:23 GMT

>I do not feel pursuing a certification that borders along
>the medical and scientific professional degrees would be realistic,

Ha, ... Hah, Ha!
.
Be realistic?

Ha, ... Hah, Ha!

Seasons greetings :)

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John 'the Man' - 29 Dec 2004 11:42 GMT

> Please dual post here and my email, surfgolden@aol.com

1. Be a People Person.
2. Look like the personal trainer that your clients are expecting to
see.
3. Be proficient at using the exercise equipment that your clients will
be using. Know how to get results. Know everything that there is to
know about getting results from exercise.
4. Study enough academic book knowledge required to pass the
certification test. There are any number of ways of doing this from the
school of hard knocks to Internet correspondent schools. The dumbest
way, IMHO, is to get a 4 year degree in something that virtually any
people person could do.
5. Take the certification test from one of the 2 organizations that
certify personal trainers. The test will cost you around $300. Sorry,
but worrying about which organization is the best indicates that you
wont make it as a personal trainer. :(
6. Get a CPR certification from the American Red Cross.
7. Develop a personal trainer profile with at least one specialty, such
as Karate.
8. Get a job as a personal trainer, or con rich people into hiring you
as a personal trainer without any prior experience. Lots of Luck,
Buddy!

Just my personal opinion, but I am right as usual. :)
--
john gohde
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Natural-Health

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