Back Again and What a Journey - Personal Trainer Community - Forum

[Aaron]

Well guys and gals I'm not really new here. Over a year ago I started here studying for my ACSM cPT. Today I work for a growing fitness company that is sure to be heading to city near you. Not only do I train clients but I am the head trainer. I get to hire, develop, and learn from trainers from all backgrounds. My plan is to contribute and learn as much as possible here at ThinkTank. We all can always get better and I'm looking forward to becoming part of your family here!

[Christina]

Hi and welcome back. Glad to hear your pt career is going so well!

Christina

[Aaron]

Thanks Christina!!!
You probably have no idea how much you and Fitness Think Tank helped me in the beginning. I read as much as I could here both pertaining to training philisophy and the buisness in general. And it helped fortifty my aspirations to become the best trainer I can be. I have been all over the country this past year absorbing all that I can and trying to learn from as many trainers as possible. Right now I have 16 trainers to look after as well as my own client base and I'm spending more time here in the Columbus, OH area. So it's time to get back to my roots and contribute all that I can!
My background is as follows:
B.A. Sociology Ohio University
A.S. Science Ohio Univeristy
NASM CES
ACSM cPT

[Christina]

I couldn't find your post after Joe Cannon logged on and answered so many!

I am glad you found this forum so helpful. I remember how lost I was when I first wanted to become a trainer.

It sounds like you really like your new job. That's a rarity these days! I am so thankful that I can say the same. When did you get your NASM CES?

Christina
PS - I may have told you this before but I grew up about 2 hours from Columbus.

[Aaron]

I got my NASM CES this november. My department and the quality control director for my company preach the importtance of an overhead squat assesment on all clients and so me being proficient in said assesment grew into achieving another cert. I am currently getting ready to take earn ACSM/ACS and potentially the ACSM/NCPAD. There are 2 reasons for earning these certs. 1 is that you can earn CEC's that apply to my cPT cert and 2 I often get many clients with disabilities ranging from limited mobility all the way to complete paralysis.
I will be a trainer until I die! It's what I was born to do.

[Christina]

Wow! Sounds like you're gaining a ton of experience in a short amount of time. I'm thinking about getting one of the ACSM specialty certs as well. I need to renew my cert soon so I need to get crankin' and figure out what it is I want to do.

Was the NASM CES difficult?

Christina

[Aaron]

I could certainly see where anyone who hasn't had a course in biomechanics would run into some trouble. You need to understand how the body functions as a unit. I had the luxury of being around a group of people who had taken the test prior and were willing to study with me. I have to say it was definately more intensive than the ACSM cPT test.
But at the end of the day it's always the trainer that makes the cert not the cert that makes a trainer! :medal: