It’s great to welcome back Mish Wright for another guest post. A long time advocate of women’s health, Mish has run a successful Personal Training business and the annual Women’s Health & Fitness Summit. More recently, Mish can be found championing women’s fitness via the Curves brand. Over to you, Mish…
Women are often guilty of putting themselves last.
Last in their family and often, sadly, last in their professional life.
Fitness Professionals are no different! Continue reading
FITREC has made a fantastic impression on the Australia fitness industry in just a few short years. Unfortunately, our growth has outpaced many long established recruitment processes, leading to confusion in some instances.
While professionals have done a great job of updating employers in their area, we want things to be easier. So, we’ve written an open letter for all fitness employers to introduce FITREC, outline the benefits of FITREC registration as well as clarify the right of every industry professional to choose who they register with, or even if they register at all (naturally, we highly recommend it).
Please note, to ensure the accuracy of information surrounding the Fair Work Act and fitness registration, this letter was written with assistance from our legal team. Continue reading
When tapping directly into the HealthyPeople database, don’t spray the details of your available role to everyone that looks remotely suitable. We can do this for you, much more effectively, with a job ad.
Instead, use your access to candidates to do what we can’t – connect with an individual about the nature of your business and the available role.
Following a recent Aqua Fitness forum, we decided we needed to provide a regular voice for all Group Fitness Instructors in our weekly newsletter. To make this happen, we’ve enlisted the undisputed heavy weight in this line of work, Marietta Mehanni, to join our writing team. For those that may not have heard of Marietta (it could happen), the following blog gives some insight into her passion for all things ‘group fitness’. Continue reading
Steve Grant is the owner of GymHub, “the first ‘High Performance’ Network and Mentoring program for Gym Owners across Australia and New Zealand.” In this guest post, Steve highlights the importance of ‘running a business’ rather than ‘being a business’.
Take it away, Steve… Continue reading
FITREC is a registration service for the Australian fitness industry.
On a broad scale, we’ve improved transparency and accountability in an effort to inspire greater respect from the general public and allied health professionals.
More immediately, this same transparency and accountability allows accomplished professionals to shine, it provides an effective recruiting tool for industry employers and aids in the management of staff education and certification.
Increasingly, our commercial URL was failing to reflect our greater purpose. Continue reading
Welcome to the eighth in the series on Client Retention – A Psychological Perspective provided by psychologist, Kate Swann. Kate is a co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Training Overweight and Obese Clients (available free for FITREC professionals).
Take it away Kate…
In this article, I’m going to take a leaf out of Sherlock Holmes’ notebook and explore how to become a detective.
Now you might be thinking: what does being curious and listening hard to the smallest of details have to do with fitness training? Everything, people, everything. Continue reading
