PERSONAL TRAINING CERTIFICATION & PERSONAL TRAINER CAREERS

How to Become a Personal Trainer

Your Passport to Fitness Industry

Looking to profit from your interest in sports and recreation? Becoming a Fitness/gym / personal trainer can be a good choice for career choice if you are a fitness freak & love fitness and have the courage to help others achieve their goals. As a fitness enthusiast, you've probably already done personal training for your family and friends (unorganized) over the years, but there are more steps to take to get certified as an accredited personal trainer, find employment as an instructor, or work as a freelancer. So the best way to know how to become a certified personal Trainer and Learn more about this career is to decide if it is the right one for you.

It is not only that you just develop your own body over the years and be able to personally train others because there are categories of every individual and a personal trainer has to see their physical needs and limitations. Only after becoming an accredited certified personal trainer, one can guide a client for their workout regimes 

After becoming one can easily collect complete information about their clients and their physical needs.

There are some examples of questionnaires foams which can be given to clients depending upon the information required, such as, 

• PAR-Q (For assessing the client’s medical health)

• EQ5D (For assessing the general well-being of the client)

• IPAQ (For assessing the physical fitness of clients).

Get Certified as a Personal Trainer

Your Passport to Fitness Industry

If you've decided this career is for you, your next step is to get certified.  The most important factor in your decision  is from where you are obtaining your certification program 

Certifying organizations have their certification procedures and protocols accredited by an independent third party, such as the NCCA. If there is a specific employer you want to work for, find out what certifications they require or recognize.

These are the most common searched questions at google or different websites for certifying organizations:

1. What are the prerequisites for the exam? Most require, at a minimum, a high school diploma, a CPR certification, and that you're at least 18 years of age.

2. Can the exam be taken online, or in-person? If on-site, where and when are the exams offered?

3. Does the exam require attendance, and where are these offered, or is it a home study program?

4. How much does it cost the study and the examination all together? The costs vary from about 12000/- to more than $120000/-, (it may or may not include study material / practical training workshops etc.)

5. Is it a national/international certification? Is it academy/school / universally recognized?

6. What are the requirements and cost to renew the certificate? 

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• Certifying Organizations: While there are others, these are some of the well-known certification organizations and their accreditations:

• ACE (American Council on Exercise), accredited by NCCA

• ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine), accredited by NCCA

• AFPA (American Fitness Professionals and Associates), not accredited

• GFFI (GFFI Fitness Academy), accredited by The Bureau of fitness Standards & affiliated by American Sports & Fitness University (ASNI)

• ISSA (International Sports & Sciences Association), accredited by DEAC

• NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine), accredited by NCCA

• NCSA (National Strength and Conditioning Association), accredited by NCCA

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Importance of skeletal muscles by Dr. Neeraj Mehta

Importance of skeletal muscles by Dr. Neeraj Mehta (Founder GFFI Fitness Academy & Bodygntx)

When thinking about the three sorts of muscle and their particular jobs it is anything but difficult to perceive any reason why muscle is so significant. It is the muscle that; makes development by contracting and pulling on our bones, that ceaselessly attempts to siphon blood and supplements around the body and even assists with processing. 

So keeping up all around adapted muscle is a need in the event that we need to carry on with a sound life where the body capacities appropriately and empowers us to do our day by day tasks and take an interest in every physical action viably. 

Understanding skeletal muscle and its capacities are fundamental for every single fitness coach to finish ordinary errands, for example, educating exercise, surveying a customer’s development, rectifying exercise strategy, doing wellness tests, and planning to prepare programs. 

Elements of skeletal muscle

Skeletal muscle has four noteworthy capacities, these are: 

1. Force generation to increase movement: Skeletal muscle is in charge of creating the power expected to move the body. Strolling, running, swimming, pushing, pulling, and so forth are for the most part developments made by the compression of skeletal muscles. 
2. Power age for breathing (breath): The skeletal muscles of the ribs and stomach area are in charge of the developments essential for breath, as they deliberately unwind and contract to empower the lungs to load up with air and after that oust the air. 
3. Power age for postural help: Skeletal muscles likewise settle the joints of the body during development and help to keep up perfect posture. At the point when an individual's posture is 'perfect,' the impacts of gravity (pushing down on us) is negligible, weight is uniformly dispersed through the heap bearing joints of the body; the joints between vertebrae, the hips, knees, and lower legs and damage hazard is decreased. 
4. Warmth creation: When skeletal muscles contract they produce heat. At the point when body temperature drops (because of introduction to cold), skeletal muscles can make warmth to keep up center body temperature. They can do this either deliberately (doing some activity to heat up, scouring the hands together, and so forth) or automatically by shuddering.

written by Dr. Neeraj Mehta (Founder GFFI Fitness Academy)