This is a gym in beijing city in the four southern ring。
At 7:00 p. M., members of the gym packed up a non-pleasant gym, sweating all kinds of equipment and a coach staring at members' movements。
Beijing citizen tan ting (alias) had worked out here, and after three exercises she decided not to come。
"the coaches here are not professional." tantin, who has many years of outdoor hiking and tennis experience, told journalists quite frankly that “some members are acting wrong, but coaches are not correcting them, and some coaches are having problems with their own, and it is too dangerous to work with them”
In recent years, the boom in the fitness market has led many people to smell business opportunities, and some gymnasium training institutions have emerged. The group of fitness coaches has gradually expanded, but the level of professionalism is worrying。
A survey of journalists found that the fact that fitness coaches are mostly trained for short periods at training institutions, combined with low entry thresholds, lack of uniform standards for qualifications, led to uneven levels of fitness coaches, and even to problems such as confusion in the fitness instructor qualification examination。
Comic by lee xiaojun
Lack of entry qualifications in the coaching industry
The idea was to pay private tutors to teach themselves how to lose their fat, but after spending thousands of dollars, they not only lost weight but also hurt their backs。
On the other hand, it is not possible to mention the “blood and tears history” of his fitness, and beijing citizen li li is angry。
After a careful review, lee found that from the very beginning of the experience class, the bad results became apparent — when she became unwell in the course of her training, the fitness coach explained that “it is precisely because of poor cardio-pulmonary functions that the training is needed to enhance the pulmonary function”。
But lee lee's practice is getting worse。
“on several occasions, when i was doing intensive cardiopulmonary training under the guidance of the coach, my breath was already fast, but the coach insisted on it, and then i got dizzy, my ears were ringing, and i even wanted to vomit.” she recalled。
Lee lee's back injury occurred when she first tried to sling the bell over her boat. After a demonstration, the coach allowed lee to start from the medium weight and did not correct her irregularity, and after a few moves, she felt a sting in the waist. After a long period of rest, lee lee's back pains did not improve。
It was not until her exit card at the gym that lee found out that her coach had just graduated from a sports college and had neither a fitness certificate nor any experience in teaching。
The 24-year-old beijing girl liu fong (alias) went directly to the hospital while undergoing fitness training。
"i'm a gym, white, and i've got a gym coach training, and i've been working on it, and i've been working on it. I told the coach about this, and he recommended me to his colleague's stretch class." liu fang said。
"it's crazy that this recommended stretch coach (also with force training) has been accusing me of previous fitness coaches. Liu fang says。
Mr. Stretchi even told liu fong that there was a problem with the way he was trained and that there was no way to follow up without his stretching lessons. Subsequently, stretching coach urged her to buy her own stretching courses, and she felt like a “sheep to be slaughtered”。
Liu fong was unsure that she had been examined at the hospital and diagnosed as a shoulder-cap impact syndrome, and the doctor advised her to rest to avoid further physical injuries. It was then that she realized that the previous trainers were not professional and that it was not scientific to direct her exercise。
A beijing university student in gymnasium guidance and management, wu xi, told reporters: “we often see unprofessional coaches in gym training. Some wrong moves, long and long, can cause muscle damage to fitness members. Some of the so-called `trainers' do not actually learn a systematic course, and even some gymnasiums, in order to attract members to buy classes, fabricate coaches with a variety of certificates and put glorified resumes on the wall.”
In the view of the industry interviewed, liu fong's and others ' physical fitness experience is based on the lack of vocational entry qualifications of fitness coaches in the health industry, the fact that many exercise coaches do not have background knowledge of medical or physical impairments, and the fact that they are trained to enter a physical fitness facility with simple training makes them vulnerable to injury to fitness consumers。
Multiple training system for certificate types
How did these gym coaches come up
It is understood that the current national certificate for mainstream fitness coaches includes, inter alia, the national vocational qualification, the cbba (china health society) certificate and the certification courses offered by the large chain fitness training institutions. The overall training is shorter, less expensive and has a high pass rate; the international certificate includes the ace (united states sports commission), acsm (american institute of sport medicine) etc., in the form of a “self-learning + test”, which is generally expensive and difficult to pass, but can be used internationally。
The associate professor of physical training, beijing university of physical education, bock, explained that the national system of certification of professional fitness trainers was currently divided into primary, middle and advanced levels, following a separability model with not only theoretical but also physical examinations. If the examination is to take place at a higher level, it needs to be tested again. This means that lifelong learning is also required if the industry is to grow in the long term。
In 2020, chen tao, a full-time gymnasium coach (alias) from a chongqing club, obtained 567 go (all 567go international institute of fitness, a well-known private instructor training and fitness institution in the country) and participated in its six-month training courses, with the highest level of certification。
According to chen tao, he was only the first step in obtaining the instructor's certificate, “a further important link is the `certification'”. The so-called “certification” refers to the time-barred nature of a number of trainee certifications with a higher gold content, which the holder needs to participate annually in the training of an official designated institution and to have completed the credits in order to maintain. This form of “certification” can, to some extent, encourage him to continue his studies in comparison to the form in which some fitness instructor certificates are held。
However, a journalist survey found that not all fitness coaches had such qualifications. In practice, the fitness industry recognizes a higher number of types of fitness instructor certificates and even pays for them。
In recent days, journalists, in their capacity as “symmetric beginners” and “experienced fitness lovers”, have experienced two high-ranking and well-rated training institutions on electrician platforms。
After explaining their intentions to different businesses, the journalists recommended the cbba certificate, which was issued by the chinese association for the health of the good, as one of the professional certificates required for the induction of fitness coaches and for professional practitioners. Businesses also present to journalists the advantages of the certificate - the cbba certificate is currently rare for online training and examination as compared to other certificates requiring offline training。
In addition, the sellers have produced the “killer” of the “assurance certificate” — a mere $1050 to cover the entire package and to follow the full process until the certificate is obtained. When journalists refer to their “wanted to learn something”, they say they can “give live lessons”, but the learning effect does not affect the successful examination of certificates。
This sort of “certification” and “learning” marketing tool became a constant feature of subsequent investigations by journalists。
When journalists asked about the form of the examination, both of them made it clear that, if only the certificate was used, “only online cooperation and participation on the mobile phone” would suffice. When journalists expressed their desire to obtain the certificate quickly, they even claimed that they could “take it 30 days after a day's examination without a brush, without having to sign up for it” and promised “no full refund of the certificate”。
But when journalists want to know in detail how to ensure that their views are confirmed through this core issue and try to be confirmed by words such as “covered” `help me answer the questions', both guest uniforms start to be vigilant, both of them with the word “insensitive”. For this reason, a follow-up communication with a journalist's social account was requested. However, even during the follow-up private conversations, the answers to the core issues remained general, with repeated emphasis on “successful access”, while the operational details remained vague and merely pressuring journalists to sign up。
Performance pressure makes coaches sell
A survey of journalists found that, at present, the fitness industry does not have a mandatory requirement to be licensed to be on duty, so that some people without a professional background can be on duty after short training and after being able to sell courses. The physical fitness industry is too low a threshold to allow many non-professionals to enter。
Chen tao told journalists that some of the large chains of gymnasiums would be more stringent, focusing on the professional level of fitness coaches, and that, in addition to their qualifications, there would be a number of practical skills tests, physical clearances, each of which would have professional scores, and more than a certain number of coaches would be able to take up jobs. This is followed by periodic periodic periodic appraisals to ensure the physical state and professionalism of the coach。
"but not all gymnasiums have such a perfect trainer audit." wu kui told journalists that for profit, some irregular gymnasiums value the skills of coaches and customers, and some of the training institutions on the market teach you how to sell classes using “sets”。
At present, private coaching services are generally available at gymnasiums in beijing at prices ranging from $300 to $800 per hour, depending on the region and the qualifications of the trainers. Journalists interviewed 20 fitness coaches working in beijing's western, tondai and east side districts, all of whom said that they were under pressure to sell, and even said frankly, “either that your professional skills are better paid or, in the end, that you make money for the gym”。
“every gym used to have a tour coach who would attract clients to buy his private tutorials by giving them free of charge to all members, but now there are virtually no free tour coaches, who would talk to members in the mass area and sell them for very clear purposes.” balker told journalists that there was a long-term tendency to pursue short-term benefits in the fitness industry, while long-term benefits were neglected。
"it also leads to some of the more professional fitness coaches being reluctant to choose the profession." chen tao said that in some gymnasiums, selling courses became even the main profession of coaches, and as long as the courses were sold much more, nothing else mattered。
Tan ting also told journalists that on one occasion she saw the gym coaches being trained during exercise, “i listen carefully, not to train expertise, but to teach them how to sell private teaching”。
“in our profession, one of the most highly professional top coaches left because he was consistently underperforming and unable to meet the sales requirements of the gym.” many gymnasiums (alias) have been active in beijing for more than 10 years, including the tondai district and the hoyoyang district, and have witnessed the rapid development of the industry, as well as the shortage of professional private trainers, and the number of injuries caused by inappropriate private instruction, of which half a month's floor damage is the most common problem。
Reporter's handwritten
It would cost thousands of dollars to obtain a “packed” professional fitness instructor's certificate easily on an electrician platform without training or a brush. This is not only a reflection of the lack of regulation of the system of certification of fitness coaches, but also of the deep-seated thinking of the industry: what choice does a consumer have when a qualification is reduced to a commodity with a specified price, when a “licence” is no longer equivalent to a “professional”
For fitness coaches, how to build convincing professional certification standards and thus move the fitness industry from disorderly competition to normative development has become a subject of urgent response。
(journal of rule of law)
