If You Like Your Aerobics Instructor, You Can Keep Your Aerobics Instructor

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Ricochet:

Pat Sajak

1/5/13

 

Even though the government has graciously agreed to help me with my day-to-day life in terms of how I illuminate my home, how my foods can be fried, whether I can emit water vapor in public and several dozen (hundred?) other areas, theres one aspect of daily living in which theyve been a bit lax, and thats exercise. Oh, sure they encourage good habits, but since when is merely encouraging enough for our leaders? Its time to mandate. May I humbly suggest a new program: Federal Aerobic Targets. As with all governmental programs, FAT would be simple and efficient while quickly and painlessly wiping out a serious societal problem; in this case, the scourge of obesity. In the same way poverty has been all but eliminated and health care is being streamlined and improved, FAT would do away with unhealthful lifestyles with a few simple regulations.

 

As I envision it, all Americans would be issued Exercise Identification Cards. (Those here illegally would be exempt because such cards could be used to discriminate. Federal employees, elected officials and certain unions would also be granted waivers.) All gyms would be inspected and required to upgrade to government-approved equipment, and all exercise instructors would have to be trained and licensed under Federal Aerobic Targets guidelines. However, those already belonging to facilities would be grandfathered into the program. In other words, if you like your gym, you can keep your gym. Period.

 

Those who are physically unable to exercise (as determined by government-trained workers who will examine such claims) will be able to go to FATs website and exchange their exercise points with others under a systems to be determined within each state. These state exchanges will devise rules specific to the needs of its citizens. (However, the federal government will monitor those rules to be certain the states programs do not deviate in a substantive way from the national program.)

 

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Don't Give Them Any Ideas!

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More than half of the personal trainers and fitness centres in Australia are not regulated.

 

Only 1170 of 2500 fitness businesses are registered with Fitness Australia, which oversees safety and qualification standards of personal trainers and gym instructors.

 

The organisation is calling for the federal government to enforce regulation.

 

''We need government support and regulations so the consumer can be better protected from unscrupulous operators,'' Fitness Australia general manager of operations Robert Barnes said.

 

''Regulation would compel business owners and operators in the industry who are not registered with our industry association, to get on board or get out.''

Membership of Fitness Australia has grown 34 per cent in the past 12 months, albeit amid concerns that unregistered personal trainers are operating with no qualifications or training in parks or unregistered fitness centres.

 

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More than half of the personal trainers and fitness centres in Australia are not regulated.

 

Only 1170 of 2500 fitness businesses are registered with Fitness Australia, which oversees safety and qualification standards of personal trainers and gym instructors.

 

The organisation is calling for the federal government to enforce regulation.

 

''We need government support and regulations so the consumer can be better protected from unscrupulous operators,'' Fitness Australia general manager of operations Robert Barnes said.

 

''Regulation would compel business owners and operators in the industry who are not registered with our industry association, to get on board or get out.''

Membership of Fitness Australia has grown 34 per cent in the past 12 months, albeit amid concerns that unregistered personal trainers are operating with no qualifications or training in parks or unregistered fitness centres.

 

 

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