Become a Certified Personal Trainer?

[Ka]

OT a little but just to show you how much BS in the industry.
Here's a Q&A in my local paper
Answer by a Excerise Physiologist (which is a degree level program meaning university)
Q I have been training in the gym now for a few years and have improved my strength and am happy with my body tone.I just can't seem to get bigger muscles.
A:You need to increase the intensity of the entire session.Start with 250 reps in each workout.To do this choose 4 excerises targeting different body areas and do 6 to 15 reps and 3 to 6 sets. To monitor your intensity calculate your total weight.Add up your reps and multiply them by the average of the weights your've used. That is the wieght used for each excercise totalled then divided by 4.As you build on this total by adding reps, sets and occasionally weight, you'll increse the intensity of your overall workout and bulk up.

If I need to say it
Besides the overcomplicated babble and lack of inquiry, notice no mention of diet.

[FooFighter]

Chief Fox,

Please call me Bao. I would recommend that you look into what is the highest standard cert in the top health clubs in your area. For NYC it is NASM or ACSM. A few years ago, it was ACE.

Peace and good luck.

[IronFist]

Originally posted by Ka
If I need to say it
Besides the overcomplicated babble and lack of inquiry, notice no mention of diet.

Like I said, it's illegal for personal trainers without some sort of diet certification to give out diet advice.

But yeah, most of them don't know what they're talking about anyway.

[Ka]

Originally posted by IronFist
Like I said, it's illegal for personal trainers without some sort of diet certification to give out diet advice.

Down this way the training is a bit different,even the bare min to be a certified PT has a nutrition mod,they are covered legally.This PT has a Degree,he's covered to give nutritional advice if he wanted to.

[IronFist]

^ Good deal. But note that "PT" usually refers to physical therapists and not personal trainers, and the physical therapists can get kind of p.issed if you call trainers that.