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Marnoch issues newspaper response
Leatherhead facility
REPs registrar welcomes Daily Mail article raising issues over training regulation
revamp advances
Phase one of the By Tom Walker
refurbishment of Leatherhead
Leisure Centre is scheduled to be The registrar at the Register of
completed towards the end of Exercise Professionals (REPs),
October. The first phase of the Jean-Ann Marnoch, has written
20-month refurbishment, an open letter in response to a
designed by A+G Architects, recent Daily Mail article which
includes a new frontage, a new questioned the way personal
438.6sq m (4,721sq ft) fitness trainers are regulated in the UK.
suite and a purpose-built In an article on 26 August,
343.4sq m (3,696sq ft) soft play the newspaper claimed there
area on the first floor. The new had been an increase in injuries
gym will incorporate 90 cv relating to personal training
stations, a wide range of sessions and that some injuries The Daily Mail article questioned the quality of personal training
resistance machines and a large were down to "the personal
free weights area. Other trainer's lack of expertise". tory standards within the fitness She added: "REPs was set up
additions to the centre’s The article also questioned industry are not high enough. in 2002 to regulate people
facilities will include a large the validity of training courses In her response, Marnoch working in fitness and has strict
aerobics studio with views over which lead to a personal trainer welcomed the article and said it entry guidelines developed in
the new Multi Use Games Area qualification in a matter of raised "key issues" as well as partnership with the industry
(MUGA) and sports field. A new weeks. It also claimed that illustrates just how important it – and every day turns away
crèche facility will also be some medical experts have is to ensure all personal trainers trainers and instructors who do
opened as part of the first phase raised concerns that self-regula- are members of REPs. not meet the standards."
while two new glass-backed
squash courts, complete with a
tiered seating viewing area, will
Searle appointed as new FIA chief medical officer
open for use towards the end of
October. Work on phase two – By Tom Walker Searle revealed his belief that
which will include the creation exercise can be used to benefit
of new changing rooms for the The Fitness Industry Association healthcare stems from his own
gym as well as a sauna, steam (FIA) has appointed John Searle experience of using a personal
room and beauty therapy rooms to the newly created post of trainer to help tackle the effects
– will begin later this year and is chief medical officer (CMO). of acute rheumatoid arthritis.
due for completion in May 2010. Searle will spearhead efforts Searle said: "I would like to
to engage the healthcare sector see a personal trainer linked in
Government funding
and has been tasked with with every general practice in
for Bridgwater sites
raising awareness of the fitness Searle began work in his new the country; that's my personal
Chilton Trinity and East sector's role in both prevention post during LIW last week vision. General practices have
Bridgwater leisure centres and remedial strategies. doctors, they have practice
are set to share a £93,000 A former consultant anaes- Exeter Hospital, Searle became nurses, physiotherapists and
grant provided by the thetist and director of intensive a REPs-accredited fitness trainer counsellors – why not have a
government’s Transformation care at the Royal Devon and following his retirement. personal trainer?"
Fund. The two sites, which are
operated on behalf of Somerset
County Council by management
Leisure-net's membership services survey kicks off
trust Somerset Leisure, will
use the funding to attract Leisure-net Solutions will include an 'e-enquiry' Mike Hill, managing director of Leisure-net,
more adults with learning element for the first time in its annual said the new aspect has been introduced to
difficulties to take part in call-Focus survey. highlight the problems the industry has with
leisure. Facilities at the centre The survey, which aims to benchmark how responding efficiently to enquiries.
include two fitness suites, the fitness industry replies to telephone "The 2009 call-Focus survey will examine
squash court, a floodlit artificial enquiries, will also chart how effectively the whether the industry has improved upon last
turf pitch and childrens' indoor sector deals with email enquiries. year's disappointing scores," he said.
activity play area.
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