On Certification Procedures for Personal Fitness Trainers

As Personal Fitness Trainers Are Turned to by More Americans—One Leading Industry Voice Looks to the Future.

Los Angeles, CA, March 28, 2011 -- At a time of rapid growth for the personal fitness training industry, Personal Trainers Association "PROPTA" President Joe Antouri recently put out this statement regarding the industry's certification of fitness trainers:

As noted in recent media articles, personal fitness training is indeed a relatively new industry. But it is also one currently served by a large body of skilled professionals, most of which deservedly enjoy the confidence of the public.

Our organization "PROPTA", the Personal Trainers Association, exists to ensure that personal fitness and physical trainers are properly trained, certified and qualified. Articles reviewing the industry are therefore of interest both to us and to the professional fitness and physical trainers we certify in one hundred and eighty countries worldwide. As the industry consolidates certification procedures it is important to recognize that established national and international certification bodies are already in place.

Readers may be left with a different impression by some articles, which would be unfair to the thousands of conscientious trainers who are indeed properly certified.

Also of concern is the suggestion that the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) is accepted as the sole arbiter of certification standards. In fact, there are several coexisting sets of certification standards regarded by training experts as soundly formulated and properly balanced between the various academic disciplines.

In the case of "PROPTA" the Personal Trainers Association, our certification process has evolved with the input of physical training specialists from leading universities—and is both recognized by the California State Government Bureau and the Private Post Secondary Education and GI Bill approved for inclusion in veterans' training programs. Also, the training we provide and certify is practical, hands-on training—with learning certified by exams we ourselves actually administer and verify.

As we in the industry await further consensus on the certification of physical training professionals, we hope readers will understand that our profession does indeed have in place training and certification procedures consumers can have complete confidence in.

For more information on the Personal Trainers Association (PROPTA) visit their website at www.PROPTA.com or www.personaltrainerscertification.com or contact them at (800) 317-3577.

Contact:
Joe Antouri
PROPTA
5530 Vantage Ave
Valley Village, CA 91607
818 766-3317
info@propta.com
http://www.personaltrainerscertification.com

This release was published on openPR.