Fastest way to become a certified pt

[yooomoma]

Already got the knowledge just want to become certified asap

[nickstarr007]

Do you actually need to be certified to call yourself a PT? If not, what value does a PT cert add?

If you've got the knowledge, and results to prove it, should you not be good to go?

[Shutupandsquat]

Go take a course at NZIS. At the gym I go to, it takes 2 weeks to become one hahahaha! But that explains why they're shit.

[HarryB]

Already got the knowledge just want to become certified asap

You need certification to get insured and most gyms have the requirement for PTs to have their own insurance. Big time rort if you ask me but it's just how they have to cover themselves.

[nemesis]

wondering if most people would rather pay a "certified PT" or just someone who has obviously achieved the results you want and seems to know what they're talking about? Most of the PT's I see are skinny fitness freaks (no offence to the fitness freaks :pfft: ) who I wouldn't trust to advise me on the best way to lump up. Then again, I suppose I trusted a bunch of nurses recently to tell me how to be the most healthy who then proceeded to go out for a smoke afterwards? :naughty:

[HarryB]

wondering if most people would rather pay a "certified PT" or just someone who has obviously achieved the results you want and seems to know what they're talking about? Most of the PT's I see are skinny fitness freaks (no offence to the fitness freaks :pfft: ) who I wouldn't trust to advise me on the best way to lump up. Then again, I suppose I trusted a bunch of nurses recently to tell me how to be the most healthy who then proceeded to go out for a smoke afterwards? :naughty:

My personal experience has been that the more hard working gym goers who have a good base of knowledge themselves would much rather pay someone who they have seen get real world results. I train a few people and don't have the industry required education to be a trainer here in aus. Apparently a couple of years of ex sci and physio don't count as enough to get me qualified BUT a 2 week course would! And for only a couple of grand too... with upgrades every year wank wank wank! lol

I get my clients through word of mouth and from them seeing me training other people or even from them watching me train myself. It's hard work convincing someone who has trained for a long time that you can help them but once you do they are the best for your business.

[HumanPerformance]

Your dead right you two. There are loads of guys who have lifted for many years whose knowledge easily surpasses that of the average PT,particularly when it comes to nutrition. As part of my buisness I run a mentoring programme where I help up and coming PTs to become more succesfull.

But I am surprised at how much time I am having to spend with them just taeching them proper exercise technique. I spent 20 mins on tuesday teaching a PT how to squat after whilst taking him through a leg workout he exclaimed to me "that is was impossible for him to squat all the way down due to his biomachanics" 20 mins later he could squat all the way down with ease and he was amazed. This is just an example how some PT qualifications are not worth the paper they are written on.

[nemesis]

Yeah that settles it, I'm looking for a tank to give me a bit of mentoring when Im back in the gym.

[Chemo]

NZIHF 3 months. BOOM!

Cool course, very business and PT orientated. Builds you for basic success, but the course structure is very pushy and you have to take in information and spit it back out asap. It seems easy but think of it as a 6 month course condensed down to 3, a lot of homework involved.