Qualifications

[lil john]

I wondered if anyone knows much about PT qualification. Basics or ones that are worth it, only ones I'm aware of are bwla ones.

Wondered about ones that are good for just personal knowledge and some that are good for actual PT stuff

[samurai69]

I wondered if anyone knows much about PT qualification. Basics or ones that are worth it, only ones I'm aware of are bwla ones.

Wondered about ones that are good for just personal knowledge and some that are good for actual PT stuff

none are actually worth it in reality, though there origionally where some that where better than others they have all gone down hill

Premier global and YMCA used to be the best and industry standards, now they are same as others like Life time etc

a good starting point is the Premier diploma in personal training, and then to go on and do strength & conditioning with UKSCA

but that all adds up to a lot of money


who is it for and why

[lil john]

Yeah alot of info I've seen I don't agree with tbh

And a mate was asking but I also thought maybe in the future when I've developed my training could interesting. A good mate of mine is opening a gym and he wants PT guys to use it and he made the suggestion although IMO I'm no where near ready for that, but as I'm interested in strength and conditioning anyway I thought e good just for my interest and info if I found any reasonable priced ones

[samurai69]

to work in a commercial gym, then they want Reps qualified (mine where pre reps) so any of the main PT qualifications will do level 3 is the standard,

with premier i used and use all i was taught, but also had 15 years lifting before i did the course and read up on everything all the time even now

[lil john]

So reps is the standard then.

I must say the idea keeps comin back I I my head so vw he said, although it would be PT and not working in the gym for the gym, don't know if that makes a difference on myself

[samurai69]

Theres a girl that used to come to my gym, never done any course what so ever, just litened to me and picked up that as well as having a natural ability to teach, i would have taken her on as a PT over maybe 70% of the people that have come in to the gym looking for work......IMHO its down to knowledge and how you put it across, but you have to understand anatomy and physiology etc and more importantly proper teaching cues

[lil john]

Cheers Paul ill take that on board