Personal Trainers Support National Board Examinations
(ContentDesk) March 10, 2004 -- In August of last year, the public, the media, and the medical community changed the way they look at personal trainers, unfortunately for the worse.
Largely in part to a Dan Rather CBS news report titled, "Who's Training the Trainers?"Rather reported that there are over 200 companies offering personal training certification courses allowing virtually anyone to call themselves a Personal Trainer, and in some cases, after simply purchasing a $39 book online.
The lack of standards and regulations has destroyed the reputation of some very qualified personal trainers; the ones that have devoted their life to becoming educated proficient fitness professionals.Fortunately, there has been a dramatic change.
In 2003, the National Board of Fitness Examiners (NBFE) was founded to set standards and test the competency of trainers in an unbiased, standardized fashion -- the same way the medical industry determines the competency of physicians or any allied health professional... even the legal industry uses standardized exams, the Bar."The National Board will help ensure the public, the medical community, and the fitness industry that the personal trainer of their choice has met a national standardized competency exam, based on their scope of practice not which school they attended." said Dr.
Sal Arria, Executive Director of the National Board."The mission of the NBFE is not only to test the competency of trainers but to educate the medical community and insurance companies about the role fitness professionals can play in preventing disease and advocate they start writing prescriptions for exercise," said Dr. Arria.
He went on to say, "over the next decade, writing prescriptions for exercise will be as mainstream as writing a prescription for anti-inflammatory medication.""I take my education very seriously, as I hold several certifications from multiple organizations.
I get very upset when I see a ?floor trainer' holding a certification from a company that I know does not deliver the same quality of education that I hold, and he or she is being treated the same as I am.
The National Board levels this playing field and will give the trainers the credibility they deserve," said Dan Renfro, who has been a personal trainer for over 20 years, in Dayton, Ohio.
"Not only will I be able to increase my clientele base as a result of physicians prescribing exercise, but we'll see insurance companies getting involved in prevention as well. And most importantly, the patients will benefit by experiencing a positive lifestyle change. Everyone wins.""It's about time!
The National Board of Fitness Examiners is probably ten or more years overdue," said Warren Potash a certified Fitness Therapist, trainer to high school and college coaches and author of "Safely Training the Female Adolescent Athlete."Brian Theiss, owner of the Theiss Institute Corporate Training Facility in Westlake, California said, "I have been working with medical doctors for years.
A large portion of my business comes from the medical community.
One of my biggest problems is locating qualified personal trainers to help me work with my clients.
Something I won't have to worry about when all I need to do is ask if they've passed the National Boards.
Hiring qualified trainers based on what school they attended isn't reliable... knowing they passed the National Boards will help us tremendously."
About NBFE: The National Board of Fitness Examiners (NBFE) is a not-for-profit organization; founded in 2003 to ensure to the public that qualified fitness professionals who have successfully passed the National Board examinations have achieved an approved level of competency in the health and fitness industry. To schedule an interview with Dr. Sal Arria, please email: Sam Hirschberg at:
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Quick steps to find out what you want to do with your life.
How To Find Out What You Want To Do With Your Life.Knowing what you like to do and then finding someone to pay you for it is the key to happiness.Motivational Speaker, Author and TV show host, , who specializes in quick tips on how to move your life ahead even faster, offers this advice on how to find out what you love to doThis is the "manila envelope" technique. Obtain a manila envelope, notepad and pen and carry it with you throughout the day. Each time you see something that interests you, find a way to save it in the envelope. Rip things out of publications, print things off the web, make notes on your pad, whatever, but preserve the thought in some way and put it in the manila envelope. Don't edit or censor your thoughts, if it interests you, put it in the folder.
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Mainstream media has become a single-minded authority on how we should perceive life. Theirs is a negative perspective. Could there be a new way of hearing the stories we feel are relevant in our lives?
If you're anything like me you are really getting tired of the mainstream media's one-voice-to-many analysis of life on Earth. First of all, it's just too negative! I read a survey recently that stated that fourteen out of fifteen newspaper and TV News stories had negative fear-based stories. I don't know about you, but if I look at my everyday life, the amount of good and bad I experience seems to be much more balanced. Why does the ?big' media think we all love hearing the dark side of things so much?If you look at what news stories truly are in historical terms, it is a person sitting around the tribal campfire at night telling a tale to inform the people both in wisdom and knowledge. In any tribe there were many storytellers, so different perspectives were always available to the masses.
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Digital Photo Printing: Is There Life After the 4 x 6-Inch Print? Lyra Imaging Symposium Tackles New Photo-Printing Landscape
Newton, MA (ContentDesk) January 6, 2006 -- What do consumers do with digital photo prints? The 2006 Lyra Imaging Symposiums (www.lyra.com/symposium) comprehensive segment on the consumer imaging markets will offer insightful research and analysis on how consumers photographic habits that remained unchanged for nearly a century have now been thrown into chaos by digital technology. Long accustomed to a well-defined set of products and services offered by a handful of manufacturers and retailers, photographers now face a market packed with a myriad of constantly changing photo devices and services offered by hundreds of manufacturers and retailers. The Symposium will be held January 2325, 2006, at the Rancho Las Palmas Marriott Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA. Charles LeCompte, president of Lyra Research and director of Lyras Digital Photography Advisory Service explains, Its chaos out there in the digital photography...
Digital Photo Printing: Is There Life After the 4 x 6-Inch Print? Lyra Imaging Symposium Tackles New Photo-Printing Landscape
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Attitude Insurance: What is it?
(ContentDesk) August 30, 2005 -- Everyone knows the importance of having a positive attitude, especially in the health insurance industry. Even negative people say that they have a positive attitude.
All agents have seen it one time or another.
They are at a meeting, and in the hallway during one of those five minute breaks they notice a woman on the telephone.
In fact, she's on the phone on every break.
Finally one agent says, "calling your husband, huh?" to which she quickly responds, "No! Setting appointments."
She's obviously protecting or insuring her ?good attitude'. She's making sure that the outside influence of a meeting will not affect her production goals or her ?good attitude'.
Or, what about the guy who's sitting at a table by himself at the Monday morning ?turn-in' meeting.
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Quick steps to find out what you want to do with your life.
How To Find Out What You Want To Do With Your Life.Knowing what you like to do and then finding someone to pay you for it is the key to happiness.Motivational Speaker, Author and TV show host, , who specializes in quick tips on how to move your life ahead even faster, offers this advice on how to find out what you love to doThis is the "manila envelope" technique. Obtain a manila envelope, notepad and pen and carry it with you throughout the day. Each time you see something that interests you, find a way to save it in the envelope. Rip things out of publications, print things off the web, make notes on your pad, whatever, but preserve the thought in some way and put it in the manila envelope. Don't edit or censor your thoughts, if it interests you, put it in the folder.
Nothing is too silly or out of bounds in any way. At the end of the day, save the manila envelope and start a new one for the next day. Do the "manila envelope" exercise each day for 10 days straight. At the end...
Quick steps to find out what you want to do with your life.
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Attitude Insurance: What is it?
(ContentDesk) August 30, 2005 -- Everyone knows the importance of having a positive attitude, especially in the health insurance industry. Even negative people say that they have a positive attitude.
All agents have seen it one time or another.
They are at a meeting, and in the hallway during one of those five minute breaks they notice a woman on the telephone.
In fact, she's on the phone on every break.
Finally one agent says, "calling your husband, huh?" to which she quickly responds, "No! Setting appointments."
She's obviously protecting or insuring her ?good attitude'. She's making sure that the outside influence of a meeting will not affect her production goals or her ?good attitude'.
Or, what about the guy who's sitting at a table by himself at the Monday morning ?turn-in' meeting.
He's busy wrestling with a pile of papers and hasn't said a word to anyone.
Someone goes up to him and says something about the...
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Super Rules, OK?
Do you rule your superannuation or does it rule you?It's easy to fall for some myths about your super unless you do some clear thinking about who is in charge.
Virtually all Australian employees now have a superannuation account, many have several, even more than they know about.
We all hope to use this money to fund our retirement, but unless you look after your super then you are in danger of losing some of your money along the way.Myth number 1. Someone else can look after my super.
Only partly right.
It is possible go through your working life letting your super run on autopilot, but you may be in for an unpleasant surprise if you don't keep an eye on your super.
Make sure your employer is paying the correct amount, and that if your employer goes broke your super is still available.If you change jobs you need to decide if you wish to ?roll over' the money into another fund.
This is especially important if you change jobs frequently.
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