#566 - How are CIMSPA Elevating Fitness Industry Standards?
The Free Man
Ben Coomber
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
1. How are CIMSPA changing the fitness industry for personal trainers & coaches?
2. How do CIMSPA plan to improve our industry standards across the sector?
3. What changes have happened recently since the REPS takeover?
4. What are the 3-5 year plans for CIMSPA?
5. Who regulates CIMSPA, if they are the regulator?
6. How do coaches get invovled in feeding back their ideas for the sector, so the standards always evovle from the front line?
7. Where do the insurers play a role in covering trainers vs the qualifications they have?
8. How do we find out more, and get invovled?
visit: https://www.cimspa.co.uk/ for more info, and join their Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cimspa.strongertogether
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, how and earth are you doing? So today's show is a little bit different. |
| 0:07.4 | You know that I am in the fitness industry, I've been a coach for a long time, I've been a teacher for a long time, a speaker for a long time, |
| 0:16.4 | and I get involved in a certain amount of what the industry is doing, so how it's developing, who's regulating it, and getting involved in the conversations |
| 0:26.4 | that can hopefully move the industry forward. |
| 0:29.4 | Now for a while, Simspa has been on the scene in the fitness industry it kind of used to be |
| 0:35.3 | reps the register of exercise professionals and that all changed a while ago and this |
| 0:42.0 | year the industry has been in a transition to get people off the |
| 0:46.0 | reps register and into Simsba. Now for a long time people have been asking for fitness industry |
| 0:52.1 | reform they've wanted to see changes they've wanted to see |
| 0:55.3 | better regulation they've wanted to see the standards improve and be upheld so this is |
| 1:02.0 | me trying to help that cause. I have organized an interview with |
| 1:08.2 | myself and the transformation, business transformation manager at Simsper and we talk about what SimSper is trying to do. |
| 1:16.6 | Why I feel that personal trainers and coaches across the UK need to get involved in lifting the standards, need to be involved in that conversation, |
| 1:25.9 | need to be on the register and what the standards mean. |
| 1:29.0 | So I get that this podcast is a very fitness industry specific podcast so no offense if you're not in the fitness |
| 1:35.9 | industry and you don't want to listen and this is why I posted it as a bonus |
| 1:39.9 | Monday show because it's a bit more of a niche podcast today. So if you are in the |
| 1:47.4 | fitness industry please listen to the show, absorb, get involved. If you know someone that is in the fitness industry |
| 1:54.9 | then please pass this on to them here is my interview with Phil Wright from |
| 2:01.4 | Simsper. Hello, my name's Ben Kumba and join with me today is Phil Wright. |
| 2:11.0 | Correct, Phil? |
| 2:12.0 | That's me. Yep. |
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