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The Investigation Of Present Situation Of Fitness Personal Trainer In Some Fitness Clubs In Nanchang

Posted on:2012-12-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G P WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330368995295Subject:Humanities and sociology
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In the 21st century, with economic development and social progress, people have come to realize the importance of health and its potential value. The "Buying health" concept has gradually been accepted by people. As a new economic growth in Sports Industry, the health clubs have mushroomed around the country. Personal trainers are popular with this trend, and they are loved by many body-builders. Personal trainers had been selected to be one of the twenty kinds of careers that are the most popular in the 21st century by the United States "time magazine". In recent years, scholars have done a lot of research about the private fitness, but it is also just limited in some big cities, such as:Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou. In some undeveloped areas, such as, Nanchang.the research is deficient and not systematic.So, Investigating,understanding the present situation of fitness personal trainers in fitness clubs in Nanchang, and looking for the way and methods of improving the quality of private coach, are the main problems that managers of many health clubs and the fitness lovers pay attention to currently. This paper uses the literature-material method,mathematical statistics,questionnaire and interviews with experts and other methods, to investigate the present situation of fitness personal trainers in some part of fitness clubs in Nanchang, so reaching to the conclusion below:1,Part of personal trainers in fitness clubs in Nanchang are predominantly male, they are young, and their engaged time is short. Most of the personal trainers have received higher education, however, some of them are lover of body-builders, and just took part in the qualification certificate training in their pre-service time. Many of them own the Asian fitness qualification certificate, secondly the National vocational qualification of fitness coach.2,Part of personal trainers in fitness clubs in Nanchang do not take part in competition, and their own time of exercise is under five years. Equipment, aerobics, pad movement are the main contents of teaching in class, also, lots of exercise programs are completed in fitness clubs, only a few personal trainers choose other fitness places to guide clubbers to exercise. Most of personal trainers attend training every year, but their monthly income is low。3,There are significantly different attitudes toward vocation between male personal trainers and female personal trainers. Income is the main reason that they work as a personal trainer. There are significantly different attitudes toward the foreground of vocation among personal trainers,Managers and clubbers. Vocation discipline lacks standardization lacking high-quality are the private problems of the personal-trainer vocation in Nanchang, skill and instruction talented person are the most needed in fitness clubs in Nanchang.4,In each index of cultural knowledge, the basic knowledge of personal trainers is the most important, however, most of personal trainers lack the basic knowledge, so it should be strengthened. At the same time, personal trainers do not master relevant knowledge well, so it also should be strengthened.5,In each index of professional skills, personal trainers and clubbers think action-explain and demonstration-ability are the most important. To the evaluation of professional skills, action-explain and the ability of correction are on the top. In other related skills, communication is valued, also it is scored highest.6,In each psychosomatic index, managers and clubbers think the image of personal trainers is the most important, secondly the physique and psychology. Personal trainers think psychology is the most important, secondly the image and physique. At present, the best evaluation of personal trainers are the physique and psychology, psychology and image get lower evaluation, so they should be strengthened. In each index of moral character, Professional ethics gets the highest evaluation, and also it is the most important.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fitness Personal Trainer, Fitness club, Quality, Nanchang
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