1. Provide a brief job description of what you do.
Coach, motivate, train others on proper protocols pertaining to their health issues. At times, a counselor and at a clients disposal daily, depending on how dedicated you are to you're clients.
2. How does your occupation benefit others?
My training is geared toward holistic health issues pertaining to cardiovascular, muscular training and includes a holistic master cleanse program that flushes toxic wastes out of you're system. After ten sessions with me, my clients feel healthier, stronger, weigh less and reap other health benefits they wouldn't get with other personal trainers. IE: Their immune system is boosted, their respiratory system is cleared of mucus, head aches and muscle aches disappear, blood pressure and cholesterol levels drop and they can become cured of type 2 diabetes. Additionally, because I have a spiritual and financial training background, I can help them reduce unnecessary stress that effects their overall health.
3. What do you like most about your job? Why?
I love people period. I'm never bored and I get great satisfaction knowing that I'm making a bigger impact on peoples lives daily.
4. What do you like least about your job? Why?
I'm self employed and don't have access to fitness facilities that my clients belong to. This can be a hindrance at times.
5. What, if anything, would you like to change about your profession?
Great question! I would love it if they did not have a certification program to become a personal trainer. There is so much harm going on in these facilities that goes unreported. Clients are required to sign a Participant's release and agreement form that releases the facility of all liability against the club, it's heirs, the trainers and other club personnel.
Case in point: Male trainer with a female client training for a body builder competition; she complains about a severe pain she is experiencing and asks him to help with the weight load. He fails to understand the complaint and encourages her to continue. She injured her medial meniscus ligament which brought her training to an abrupt halt. The injury was caused by an improper lifting technique and excessive weight load. I know most people would say it was an accident that can happen to anyone. I disagree. His ego and lack of knowledge is prevalent in his training techniques. This was not the only person injured under his care. Again, personal trainers should be required to have a four year or an associates degree.
6. What made you want to get into this profession?
Since I was a child, I was always teaching other people, even adults; how to get in shape. I traveled throughout my community teaching female coaches how to teach their teams how to play softball. At 13, I was too old for the local girls league. My dad had taught me how to play baseball and I was umpiring the boys games. It was only natural to continue my education in this field.
7. Can you give me a brief history about this field?
Back in the day when fitness facilities became popular, there was a need for insurance. The Insurance companies would only provide coverage if the facility provided trained personnel to teach their clients. This would limit the risk of liability. Someone came up with the idea of certifying these types of trainers. The industry couldn't afford to pay or compete with salaries for fitness professionals who had a formal education/four year degree of study. The certification program can be done in a class room setting or through the Internet.
The majority of trainers take the easiest, less challenging route, through the Internet. Supposedly, after they are done studying the materials, they can take an on-line exam and the company will issue a certificate in the mail, when they pass. The individual can use the training manual to answer the questions to the exam on-line. A fitness facility where I once worked, had a disk with all the answers and gave this to any employee wishing to become a certified personal trainer.
Through out the years, the public began to glorify and praise these individuals without questioning their level of expertise. Somehow, this certificate began to trump a four year degree. Again, can you imagine a health field of unqualified doctors and nurses if they went to this type of certification program?
I'm constantly amazed that programs like the biggest loser etc, can train people the way they do! Never have I seen a trainer insist that the client wear a heart rate monitor. I'm very surprised that no one has fallen out and died on them! Totally amazing!
body-by-devo is my own company. I travel the United States and train clients.
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