The Study of Qualified Personal Fitness Trainers on Their Professional Careers

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 運動教練研究所 === 95 === The primary objective of this study is to investigate the obstacles and future challenges to the careers of qualified personal fitness trainers with the qualitative research method. The informants include six AFAA (Aerobic and Fitness Association of America) cert...

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Main Authors: Chih-Hsun Lin, 林志勳
Other Authors: Chun-Hsien Su
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12504438157985834593
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spelling ndltd-TW-095PCCU04190112015-10-13T16:41:03Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12504438157985834593 The Study of Qualified Personal Fitness Trainers on Their Professional Careers 獲得認證個人教練工作職場之研究 Chih-Hsun Lin 林志勳 碩士 中國文化大學 運動教練研究所 95 The primary objective of this study is to investigate the obstacles and future challenges to the careers of qualified personal fitness trainers with the qualitative research method. The informants include six AFAA (Aerobic and Fitness Association of America) certified personal trainers who are presently working in Taipei with an average of 6.5 years training experience. The discussion covers the important aspects of the current condition of personal trainers in Taiwan, the essential features, the interactive relationship with fitness club members, the tendency toward the present market, and the possible vocational barriers and challenges. After the in-depth interviews, I realized that it is not difficult to become a personal trainer; however, for being a professional and competent trainer, it needs the accumulation of time and experiences, diligent management, hard-working, self-improvement, and more importantly self-discipline. Training personal trainers has presently become the main barrier to industrial development. If the fitness industry collaborates with colleges of physical education and sports to foster fitness professionals, not only can it provide future employment opportunities for students from physical education and sports science related fields, but it also retrieves the uneven quality of present certification programs through various organizations. In this way it forms a channel of self-growth and also builds up the primary source of future personal fitness trainers. The future challenge consists in the change of exercise styles and needs. A shift in trends and patterns of exercise is an inevitable social phenomenon. The adaptation to the vocational variation and clients’ varied requests is essential. Thus, penetrating the trends toward the fitness industry and developing professional capability are personal trainers’ efficient instruments in the career competition. In addition, correctly holding the expansion direction of personal trainer market and implementing a complete education and integrated management provide a better enterprise environment for personal fitness trainers on their professional development. Chun-Hsien Su 蘇俊賢 2007 學位論文 ; thesis 69 zh-TW
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description 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 運動教練研究所 === 95 === The primary objective of this study is to investigate the obstacles and future challenges to the careers of qualified personal fitness trainers with the qualitative research method. The informants include six AFAA (Aerobic and Fitness Association of America) certified personal trainers who are presently working in Taipei with an average of 6.5 years training experience. The discussion covers the important aspects of the current condition of personal trainers in Taiwan, the essential features, the interactive relationship with fitness club members, the tendency toward the present market, and the possible vocational barriers and challenges. After the in-depth interviews, I realized that it is not difficult to become a personal trainer; however, for being a professional and competent trainer, it needs the accumulation of time and experiences, diligent management, hard-working, self-improvement, and more importantly self-discipline. Training personal trainers has presently become the main barrier to industrial development. If the fitness industry collaborates with colleges of physical education and sports to foster fitness professionals, not only can it provide future employment opportunities for students from physical education and sports science related fields, but it also retrieves the uneven quality of present certification programs through various organizations. In this way it forms a channel of self-growth and also builds up the primary source of future personal fitness trainers. The future challenge consists in the change of exercise styles and needs. A shift in trends and patterns of exercise is an inevitable social phenomenon. The adaptation to the vocational variation and clients’ varied requests is essential. Thus, penetrating the trends toward the fitness industry and developing professional capability are personal trainers’ efficient instruments in the career competition. In addition, correctly holding the expansion direction of personal trainer market and implementing a complete education and integrated management provide a better enterprise environment for personal fitness trainers on their professional development.
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