A license can also give a false sense of security to the "client" so that they do not do their proper research.
I don't see who it would help. Which target client will benefit?
At my gym, the people trust the trainers are doing a swell job because 24 Hour keeps them on staff. Why would they keep them around if they were bad?
There's also like a bazillion different certs, now. Which skillsets and knowledge bases would go into the licensure or "official" cert process? It would likely get watered down to a safety thing in the end. I'm sure your average idiot trainer would pass that, anyway, after a little cramming. Then, he'd have his certificate on the wall that makes his clients feel confident that he's doing a swell job.
At some point a client gets sophisticated enough to check things out for themselves, at which time a track record is a more valuable indicator than the certificate on the wall.
I think this sounds good, but in practice? Nope. With the CPR part, we at least have an agreement on what's good to know. But, other than that, I don't know what you'd standardize on unless you added a basic gym safety course and made them promise to refer people to a doctor under certain circumstances.
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