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Introduction
In today's society it can seem 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 videos 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 available now than 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, Athletic Training,
Biomechanics, and Nutrition. The problem is that most fitness
professionals do not possess any of this type of standardized
education, and 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 levels available is not the
same information that is being taught by most of the fitness
workforce to the general public. I am not talking about
cutting edge research, new theories, or in-depth anatomy. I am
talking about a lot of the most basic Science and foundational
fitness information, that is simply not making it 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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