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INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering More With Less
Registrar of REPs New Zealand Stephen Gascal writes about how big isn’t always better.
With 2000 Registered Exercise Professionals, REPs NZ is one of the smaller registers in the world, and doesn’t benefit from the same economies of scale as the larger registers. Our challenge is therefore to deliver more to our exercise professionals with less; a challenge which we have fully embraced.
We know exercise professionals have a desire for registers to be active in promoting themselves so we have developed resources and tools to help our members deliver a professional product, while at the same time directly promoting the benefits of REPs to clients and the public. These include practical and useful goal setting, planning and referral
cards, customer friendly PT and client contracts, and industry approved pre-screening forms. Our popular Tell Me More series of consumer brochures cover a range of topics including weight loss, nutrition, weight training, sleep and group exercise.
Our new Guide to Starting Out as an Exercise Professional provides essential information to understand the industry including employment options, pay rates, sales, marketing and tax matters for those operating their own PT business.
Bigger picture strategic items this year include the government review of all fitness qualifications and a new Exercise Specialist degree based registration level. By 2014, we hope to have industry approved qualifications to ensure graduates meet the needs of industry.
Fitness Facility Finder
Finding a train or hotel online has never been easier, but finding sport and fitness near you can be a very different story - spogo is here to try and change that.
spogo (lottery funded through a Sport England grant to ukactive) already has the most comprehensive sport and physical activity database in the country, with thousands of activities, facilities, and instructors online. We want you to be part of our exciting journey, the end goal being getting people fitter, healthier and more active.
So, basically we want to promote your services to the country, for free! Drop an email to contact@spogo.co.uk and one of the team will be in touch to get you listed on the site (it’s a very quick process and you’ll be on in 5 minutes). When people search near you, your services will appear. Simple as that!
Head to www.spogo.co.uk to see what we do. Even better, tell us what you think of the site!
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