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Changes to the registration system for Personal Trainers

Posted by on 6 December 2009 | 0 Comments

Every personal trainer should be registered with Fitness NSW and hold a current personal indemnity and public liability insurance. If you are not training with a PT that has these certifications, then you may be at risk. In order to stay registered every trainer must undergo self managed education and achieve Continuing Education Credits (CEC's) every 2 years in order to re-register. The Fitness Council has introduced new levels of registration (applicable to all) based on education, qualification held and years of registration. This will initially be Provisional, then Introductory, then Intermediate with Advanced being the highest level. A typical Cert 4 graduate (qualified to train outdoors) will come in at intermediate, but will need CECs to progress to Advanced for example. CECs will also change, in that you will now need 20 (up from the current level of 18) over a 2 year period. The activities you can obtain CECs from will be expanded to encompass seminars, professional reading, conferences and journal/magazine subscriptions. Many personal trainers attend Filex which is the largest fitness industry conference in the April/May timeframe each year. This three day event provides many informative sessions to keep trainers up to date with the latest industry information. Fitness Australia proposes many benefits of these changes - to the fitness professional, to the consumer, to the potential employer and to the health and medical community. It also hopes it will prove a clear path for development and progression and hence improve the professionalism of the industry.