<h2>Do You, As A Personal Trainer, Know Your Remit &amp; Do You Practice It?</h2>
I am excited about how the industry is going to be raising standards and we need to know what it means for each of us and what we need to do!
<h3><b>What If Your Potential Clients Actually Asked This…</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me ask you a question….imagine a brand new client of yours and they said to you </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“please can I see all of your certificates, accreditation and insurance papers…?” </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Go on be honest, take a moment and then tell me, how would that make you feel?</span>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Relieved you got what you needed in place?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Annoyed that they don’t trust you?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Confident they wouldn’t understand it or challenge it?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shocked because you have never been asked before!?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Super happy that finally you get to show someone all of those certificates you have been collecting over the years?</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ok let me now ask you another question….why do you do it? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why get insured? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why gain CPD? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why take more qualifications? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why gain accreditations?? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why…...if no client checks them?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Another question to consider, as you gain new skills is…..Is Your insurance policy still valid?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How Would You Know?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you are of the mind that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“a claim?......it will never happen to me” or “...I am sure it will be fine…”</span></i>

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<h2><b>Physical Activity (Health &amp; Fitness) Industry Standards </b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well you may be in for a surprise if you haven't heard yet, since the industry is moving towards CIMSPA chartered status </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you haven't yet heard about CIMSPA - Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport &amp; Physical Activity here they are:  <a href="https://www.cimspa.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.cimspa.co.uk/</a></span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally!!!.....Our industry is being moved confidently, transparently and positively towards a safer, improved set of standards and overall better quality of practice in the fields of movement, sports, participation and exercise. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Led superbly by the CEO, Tara Dillon, her team are tirelessly working to drive the standards up towards a recognition that somewhat equals (in recognition) that of ‘Allied Professionals’ like Osteopaths, physiotherapists etc as a registered body of practitioners through a brand new status;</span>

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<b><i>Chartered status</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is awarded to those who have shown real excellence, innovation and quality within their field. </span></i><b><i>CIMSPA chartered status</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> acts as a hallmark of an experienced and qualified professional, allowing everybody within your professional sphere to see and acknowledge your achievements. </span></i>

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<h2><b>What Does This Mean For The Future?</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is my prediction (and hope) that there will come a time when those movement practitioners that DO NOT have a chartered status will just not be seen in the same light or respected as much as those with chartered status. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">More and more the UK is being told by the government to move well, move more, exercise regularly and consider the health of our bodies and minds. Even through this lockdown there is a constant reminder to go for a walk. Many are not ‘prepared’ for movement, some are scared of movement and so many are uncomfortable during movement to the point where they need help.</span>

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<h3><b>Help With Exercise Is Our Job!!</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet WE, the movement/exercise professional, are (seemingly and up to now) the least recognised, least ‘qualified’, least regulated and we have a stigma attached to our level of knowledge that I believe stunts both our self belief in what we are capable of but also elevates and inflates our expectation of what a clinician knows about exercise. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The CIMSPA chartered status is only for those who go the extra mile and want to gain recognition of that, in terms of being seen as delivering expertise, quality and of course, a high level of duty of care. It is for those who take pride in their role and want to make the effort it will take to gain that status.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Under the current online boom in offering movement advice and services we are all being forced (I HOPE!) towards checking and amending our insurances. Those who were not up to date are now being exposed to maybe a demand to advertise their qualifications and insurance cover moving forwards, since the whole world can pretty much see what we are all doing, right!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">GOOD! This is a great thing!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We want a reason to pay for all those CPD’s, insurances and memberships surely!? </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We want to proudly display our practitioner status to all and sundry without concern of being outside of our remit - don’t we!? We want to understand exactly our remit and remain with our boundaries to have confidence in who and what we are covered to deal with. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is my belief many do NOT feel this way right now, many come to me unsure or actually misunderstanding the types of clients ‘issues’ they are qualified and insured to deal with.</span>

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<h2><b>We Want To Help! So We Will Pay For Your CIMPSA Membership For A Year When...</b></h2>
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<h3><b>What Is The Lockdown Mega Bundle? </b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Next week we will talk about sports therapists and manual therapists and how this affects them too.</span>