The Pilot Study Of Setting Up A Course For Personal Fitness Trainers In Sports Colleges And Universities

Personal fitness training is a emerging profession risen from the public' s increasing demand of sports and fitness with the ongoing development of the mass sporting activities.In foreign countries,the profession of personal fitness trainers has had a history of decades, and has become a standardized industry.Fitness trainers in foreign countries have all gone through professional training and are licensed for the job.In china,however,the profession of personal trainers have only just taken off,and is still facing the obstacles of not enough trainers,the low standard and overall quality of existing trainers, restricted means of training,wide gap between individual trainers and lee-than-standard training regimes.We have come to known,through our research efforts that,presently, the training for domestic personal fitness trainers is mainly provided by training institutions.But there is the problem of the lack of a standardized training market and unified criteria.Sports colleges and universities,as the incubator of sports talents,have the responsibility and obligation to bring their advantages into full play in the aspect of training for personal fitness trainers,and help to provide more qualified trainers to meet market demands.Setting up a course for personal fitness trainers in sports colleges and universities not only improves the training system of the school, but also added to the means of training for personal fitness trainers and enriched the future employment prospects of students.It can be said that setting up these training courses can achieve all-win situation for the interests of the country,the market,the schools and the students. Sports colleges and universities,as the main incubator for the country' s sports talents,should promote scientific training, systematic training and bring into full play the advantage of scale economy.Also,they should borrow from the experience of existing training facilities,including the mode of training and the content of the program.Through these efforts,we could establish a training system for personal fitness trainers with the characteristics of sports colleges and universities.In this paper,I have collected much information on the training for personal fitness trainers through conducting surveys,interviewing concerning experts and field research,and analyzed the necessity of introducing the above mentioned training course through studies of five areas:the history of china' s sports development,the development of existing training market,the development of the profession of personal fitness training,sports colleges and universities and their students. Also,I have referred to the contents of existing professional training facilities and training courses conducted in sports colleges and universities,through these studies I have analyzed the advantages of setting up training courses in sportscolleges and universities and sketched a initial plan for these courses,in the hope,that we could produce many highly-qualified, professional and service-oriented personal fitness trainers through the introduction of these courses,and achieve scientific,standardized and sustained mode of development for the profession of personal fitness trainers in china.