Third Party Posting Feedback

Wow!!...I’ve gotten a lot of email in response to the third party post from the other day. It seems that some mistakenly believed that I advocated the attainment of third party national certifications as a SOLE measure of determining the competency of today’s fitness professional. In actuality, I agree whole-heartedly with the majority of the commentary and wanted to post one that I received on the Facebook page. It’s from Michael Foresto, CSCS:


“You should know by now Earnest, while the NCCA is a great way to police the information that the organizations are indoctrinating the public with, if a certification is all that that a person is relying upon for their knowledge, ALL certifications are worthless; even the CSCS because even though you need a degree to sit for it, ANY degree is suitable. You need to know how the body REALLY works to make a certification worth the paper that was wasted to print it.”

Here’s the response that I gave on Facebook:

“Truthfully spoken if we were to use credentials as the SOLE means of determining craftsmanship, and that is what we’re talking about. True craftsmanship is an amalgamation of many things, too many to name all here, but CERTAINLY the possession of very specific skill sets relative to the functionality of the work, would be requisite...BUT, in an industry that is continually being redefined due to it's embryonic nature, establishing some measurable key indicators towards craftsmanship, moves us towards professional maturity...Would you really go to a surgeon who didn't go to medical school?! <HAHA in advance for those who say you would!>”

I love this kind of feedback because it reaffirms for me that we do have a VERY conscious base of fitness professionals out there. Hopefully, this forum will become a place and space of support for our industry’s growth and development. As evidenced by this post, you can reply here, or at the Anatomatrix Fitness page on Facebook. Just click on the name for the link.