Fitness professionals in New Jersey may have a few changes coming their way in ordered to be licensed trainers. Senator Paul A. Sarlo introduced the Fitness Professionals License Act in New Jersey on October 23. The new requirements to be licensed would be:
• Complete 300 in-person classroom hours.
• Serve a 50-hour unpaid internship under a licensed professional.
• Be of good moral character.
• Have a high school education or the equivalent.
• Pass an examination.
• Possess an associate or bachelor’s degree in physical education, exercise science, exercise physiology or adult fitness.
I’m all for personal trainers being required to know what they are doing. I see too many trainers at large chained fitness clubs pushing products that garner them the highest commission and clearly don’t practice much training themselves. The requirement of “Be of good moral character”. Who decides that one and what morals are deemed good or not? I don’t agree with that. Many people are becoming licensed personal trainers by online classes and it large part because it fits their schedule.
Check out the entire article. What do you think? Should the government be passing stricter guidelines to become personal trainers?
