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Introduction
In today’s society it can seem pretty overwhelming when trying
to decide how to best improve your health and fitness. Every few months
we hear about a new diet, there are thousands of fitness books and
magazines to choose from, there are millions of personal trainers
claiming to have all the secrets, and there is over a hundred billion(that’s
billion) dollars worth of fitness products and nutritional supplements
sold every year. Yet even though there are more fitness related products
and services now then there has ever been, this country continues
to be as unhealthy as it has ever been. This is because through media
and advertising, society is being bombarded by a Fitness industry
that just is not working. Presently, there are numerous Health Science
degrees relating to fitness that can be obtained. They include Exercise
Science, Physiology, Kinesiology, Biomechanics, and Nutrition. The
problem is that most fitness professionals do not posses any of this
type of standardized education in most cases have not had any formal
fitness education at all. As someone who has spent six years in college
learning about the Science of fitness, I can honestly tell you that
the health and fitness information that I have learned, at the highest
education level available, is not the same information that is being
taught by most people in society. I am not talking about cutting edge
research, new theories, or in-depth anatomy. I am talking about the
most basic and foundational fitness and nutrition information that
is being taught to the most highly educated people in the industry,
but is not being taught to most of the population. The truth is that
the entire fitness industry is being dominated by an unregulated and
therefore unqualified workforce. For a more in depth look at how the
fitness industry really operates click on the “unregulated and
uneducated workforce” link.
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