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REPS NEWS Coming to a venue near you…
Following the success of its string of conventions this year the REPs’ events team has planned more dates for 2010.
The first will be a Welsh Convention to be held at the Esporta Health & Fitness Club in Cardiff on Friday 12th
February.
Keynote presentations include: l Strength and Conditioning expert Dr Jeremy Moody from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
l Updates from REPs and the Welsh Assembly Government. l Nutrition and obesity.
Delegates will then be able to choose from eight workshops in the afternoon.
Further conventions have also been planned for April, in the South East of England, June in Scotland, September – the National Convention at LIW in Birmingham and November in the North of England.
For more details visit www.exerciseregister.org
NEW
GUIDELINES ON CPD REQUIREMENTS
A new booklet entitled Continuing Professional Development - Guidelines for REPS Fitness Professionals will shortly be made available to members for download from the REPs website.
CPD Compliance Manager Dottie Calderwood explains: “It is hoped that the guidelines will help our members to clarify issues surrounding CPD and give guidance on how to log their activities on-line.
“CPD is a key aspect of the Register’s structure and we aim to do all we can to assist members to demonstrate their compliance.”
REPs welcomes new team-members
Two new members of staff have joined the REPs team. Rebecca Weissbort as its External Liaison Manager and Pauline Ward as Communications Officer.
REPs MEMBERS WORK HERE
REPs has commissioned special wall-plaques for gyms and health-clubs to hang in reception areas to promote to their clients that instructors working there are registered members.
Registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch said: “We want members of the public to know that when they walk into a club they can be assured that their instructors are members of the Register. These plaques include the REPs Registered Instructor logo.
It is our hope that the public will notice the plaques and begin to demand their instructor or trainer is a professional member of REPs.”
A popular presenter at REPs conventions, Rebecca has worked in the fitness industry for more than 18 years from instructor, personal trainer and senior manager through to instructor trainer and assessor.
She specialises in Exercise Referral having set up her first scheme in 1994
Pauline has worked in the fitness industry for 26 years - predominately in administration, she is also a qualified Studio Instructor teaching classes for her local leisure centre and in a community hall.
She has been involved with the changes to the structure of qualifications and the introduction of the qualification framework.
She project managed many
pioneering initiatives including: the Inclusive Fitness Initiative
for the London Borough of Islington, and several others including cardiac rehab and a national HIV referral system for Central YMCA.
Rebecca has also sat on the panel of judges for the FIA’s FLAME awards and is the author of The Personal Trainers’ Handbook.
Rebecca will be working with corporate clients to increase the level of service offered to those employers who ‘bulk buy’ registration places for their staff.
(IFI); Exercise Referral working with Fitness Wales and the Welsh Assembly; and the LDA project to up-skill hotel workers in conjunction with REPs and SkillsActive.
Pauline’s role at REPs will be to provide information, advice and guidance to its members and provide technical support for the administration team. info@exerciseregister.org
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