A campaign to require licensure in the personal training industry by the U.S. Registry of Exercise Professionals has left some scratching their heads. Six states have considered licensure laws that, through criminal liability, would forbid providing personal training services without a license. In 2013, Washington, D.C. passed legislation authorizing the D.C. Board of Physical Therapy to enact regulations for licensure of personal trainers, though it now appears that this law will be repealed.
In this podcast, Brodie Butland and I discuss the implications of the various proposals to require licensure for personal trainers, including the remarkable over breadth of the proposed laws, their anti-consumer establishment of an oligopoly exclusively benefitting only a part of the personal training profession, and their stifling creativity and innovation in the fitness industry by requiring personal trainers and consumers into a one-size-fits-all paradigm. Tune in to find out more.
