As part of my Personal Trainer Diploma with Future Fit, they provide you with your first years memberships to REPs (Register of Exercise Professionals).

What is REPs?

REPS is an independent public Register which recognises the qualifications and expertise of health enhancing exercise instructors in the UK. One of our key functions is to provide a system of regulation for instructors and trainers to ensure that they meet the health and fitness industry’s agreed national occupational standards.

What’s the importance of REPs?

Provide clarification and recognition of qualifications that meet agreed national standards available in the fitness industry

Provide confidence in the quality of services provided by fitness professionals

To safeguard the livelihood of professionals who have invested time and money into their education

 To protect the public from individuals who do not meet nationally recognised standards

Basically, anyone can call themselves a Personal Trainer and start training people, no qualifications are actually needed. So any Tom, Dick and Harry can start playing around with peoples health’s and bodies, which isn’t very safe.

So now, a lot, if not, all gyms will only employ REPs certificated Instructors, Personal Trainers etc and its highly recommended that if your going to Train with a Personal Trainer outside the Gym, to make sure they are REPs certified.

You can find out more information by visiting the REPs website.

After completing my Gym Instructor course the other month, Future Fit applied for my Membership and I recently received this through the post the other day, YAY. Although strangely I only got a Level One membership (there are four levels altogether), I should be level 2, as I have passed my Gym Instructor course, which qualifies your for Level 2. So I had to send my Certificates to them and they have to upgrade my membership. Pretty lazy on Future Fits behalf, as they could have just applied for Level 2 membership for me.

Upon completely my Diploma I will be Level 3 Certificated, and to get to level 4, you have to do extra courses, which I will do in a few years.

So if your thinking of becoming a Personal Trainer, make sure you get REPs Certified, or face a very hard job getting any work.

If you do become REPs Certified, you get the right to display this cool badge, which is worth the membership alone!!: