Welcome

Welcome to the first issue of the REPs journal under the new sportEX tenure. We are honoured and delighted that the Mayor’s commissioner for sport, Kate Hoey MP, has written a guest editorial for this inaugural issue - a significant acknowledgement that those directing the future of sport and physical activity recognise the seamless inter- relationship between sport, physical activity and health.

THE REGISTER OF EXERCISE PROFESSIONALS

Third floor, 8-10 Crown Hill, Croydon, Surrey CR0 1RZ Telephone 020 8686 6464 www.exerciseregister.org

Registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch Registration Manager Alison Frater alison@exerciseregister.org Programme manager & special projects Rob McGregor robbie@exerciseregister.org

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING STANDARDS SkillsActive Stephen Studd, CEO Castlewood House, New Oxford St London WC1A 1PX Telephone 020 7632 2000

Technical Unit Benn Gittus skills@skillsactive.com

EDITORIAL Publisher: Tor Davies, sportEX Editor: Sarah Joy, REPs sarah.joy@sportex.net

ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES Telephone: 0845 652 1908 Email: reps@sportex.net

DESIGN & PRODUCTION Debbie Asher debbie@sportex.net

PUBLISHED BY sportEX (Centor Publishing Ltd) Contact: Tor Davies tor@sportex.net Telephone: 0845 652 1906 Website: www.sportex.net

For those of you who haven’t already come across sportEX, we specialise in producing material for continuing professional education aimed at medical and health professionals working in the fields of sports medicine and physical activity for health. Our bigger picture goal is through the relationships and reputation we have developed writing for these audiences over the last 10 years, to nurture and strengthen the bridges between the exercise and health professions.

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to those of you who have advertised in this first sportEX-driven REPs journal. I appreciate that many of you don’t know me or sportEX and therefore may not have known what to expect; I hope your leap of faith has been well rewarded! As most of you can imagine, it’s a costly business printing and posting 30,000 copies of a publication of this quality and we couldn’t do it without our advertisers! We have also taken a very open and transparent (and generally rather different) approach to the advertising and your acceptance – and in fact encouragement – of this new approach is greatly appreciated and hasn’t gone unnoticed!

Finally readers, I would really love your feedback on this issue. I have posted a very short questionnaire at this link if you can spare 2 minutes http://bit.ly/REPsQ+A1

I hope you enjoy the new REPs magazine – more to come in December 2009! Tor Davies, publisher

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www.exerciseregister.org

Guest editorial - Kate Hoey, MP

REPs badge update

Update from the REPs Registrar

REPs member update

Membership insurance

CPD update

Industry update

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Exercise news

Industry case studies

Nordic walking

Bringing anatomy to life - the breathing muscles

Blood pressure - client leaflet

Fitness and body image

Your REPs questions answered

DISCLAIMER While every effort has been made to ensure that all information and data in this magazine is correct and compatible with national standards generally accepted at the time of publication, this magazine and any articles published in it are intended as general guidance and information for use by healthcare professionals only, and should not be relied upon as a basis for planning individual medical care or as a substitute for specialist medical advice in each individual case. To the extent permissible by law, the publisher, editors and contributors to this magazine accept no liability to any person for any loss, injury or damage howsoever incurred (including by negligence) as a consequence, whether directly or indirectly, of the use by any person of any of the contents of the magazine. Copyright subsists in all material in the publication. Centor Publishing Limited consents to certain features contained in this magazine marked (*) being copied for personal use or information only (including distribution to appropriate members of the public) provided a full reference to the source is shown. No other unauthorised reproduction, transmission or storage in any electronic retrieval system is permitted of any material contained in this publication in any form. The publishers give no endorsement for and accept no liability (howsoever arising) in connection with the supply or use of any goods or services purchased as a result of any advertisement appearing in this magazine.

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