Comments on: What to Look for in a Personal Trainer http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/what-to-look-for-in-a-personal-trainer.html No BS Health and Fitness Advice Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:20:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sal Marinello http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/what-to-look-for-in-a-personal-trainer.html/comment-page-1#comment-1681 Sal Marinello Wed, 12 May 2010 01:48:37 +0000 http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/what-to-look-for-in-a-personal-trainer.html#comment-1681 All certifications are - in the end - just pieces of paper. However, it is what the individual does with the knowledge acquired during certification that reflects upon the certification. I've seen good and bad trainers with all kinds of certifications. However, I have spent almost a year and a half observing a 25-person training staff, all of whom are advertised as having NASM certifications. After watching these trainers at work they are obviously either willfully ignoring training protocols and progressions or simply do not know that they exist. I've seen women with obvious Valgus deformities (and horrendous landing mechanics) put through box jump workouts, trainers who cannot perform a proper lunge showing a client who can't lunge how to lunge while holding dumbbells, children who cannot move properly being put through plyometric and explosive workouts, etc. I can understand how one or two trainers out of a large group can be less-than-prime-time, however, when an entire staff acts this way you have to question what they've learned through their certification process. All certifications are – in the end – just pieces of paper. However, it is what the individual does with the knowledge acquired during certification that reflects upon the certification. I’ve seen good and bad trainers with all kinds of certifications. However, I have spent almost a year and a half observing a 25-person training staff, all of whom are advertised as having NASM certifications. After watching these trainers at work they are obviously either willfully ignoring training protocols and progressions or simply do not know that they exist. I’ve seen women with obvious Valgus deformities (and horrendous landing mechanics) put through box jump workouts, trainers who cannot perform a proper lunge showing a client who can’t lunge how to lunge while holding dumbbells, children who cannot move properly being put through plyometric and explosive workouts, etc. I can understand how one or two trainers out of a large group can be less-than-prime-time, however, when an entire staff acts this way you have to question what they’ve learned through their certification process.

]]> By: Joe http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/what-to-look-for-in-a-personal-trainer.html/comment-page-1#comment-1464 Joe Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:05:24 +0000 http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/what-to-look-for-in-a-personal-trainer.html#comment-1464 Hey there, How do you leave out NASM? Do you have any reason for not citing it as a credible certification? Hey there,

How do you leave out NASM? Do you have any reason for not citing it as a credible certification?

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