New Guy here with two more cents. If you are having issues with
potential clients that seem stuck on this subject, Spend a little more
time building rapport and working on meeting their needs. If someone
truly believes that you can get them the results that they desire, it
won't matter to them. In the 25 years that I have been doing this,
there have been times that I had let my certs slip and had nothing to
show my clients. However, my professionalism, confidence and product
knowledge caused them to WANT to train with with me.

Always keep learning and getting more certs CEU's etc. but don't let
that define your business.

Stay Phit!

Coach Scott


--- In Certified-Personal-Trainer@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Kaselj"
<rkaselj@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The certification debate is always entertaining.
>
> Remember:
>
> (1) A certification is a minimal level of competences.
>
> (2) For those that have gone to university, we all know of people
that are
> book smart and train well for an exam but are poor at working with
people
> and applying knowledge.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> A question for the group, how many of you have had a client refuse
to work
> with you because you did not have specific personal training
certification
> from a specific organization? (i.e. I don’t want to train with you
> because you do not have an ACE CPT certification and I don’t
believe in
> NASM CPT Certification!)
>
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