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athletic trainr vs. personal trainer

severrin Posts: 82 Joined: 2006/02/15	2006/07/05, 06:55 PM Is there a difference between an athletic trainer, and a prsonal trainer. If so what are the differences?
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2006/07/06, 02:47 AM Absolutely! An Athletic Trainer (ATC) is a position on a sports team that is basically a combination of a Physical Therapist and an EMT. Their duties include risk management, assessment and evaluation of athletic injuries; management, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries; and health care administration. The National Athletic Trainers' Association Board of Certification certifies individuals who successfully pass the national certification examination. To become eligible for this exam students must complete a college or university athletic training program (BS) accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. A Personal Trainer is usually someone who just trains someone in a gym setting, usually with just small, personal goals. Attainable with a three-day certification program offered by probably hundreds of agencies, it can also be done by achieving a BS degree from a university in a field like Kinesiology, but those individuals usually go and pursue a Strength & Conditioning career (CSCS). -------------- Michael Powerlifters - We eat raw meat, and sleep naked in the snow...
severrin Posts: 82 Joined: 2006/02/15	2006/07/07, 03:24 AM Thanks for the info man, thats going to be my major in college. I want to be a personal trainer, but I also want to have the degree hanging on my wall. I look at it like this, This education will help me open up a good gym here in my town, one that is team, and personal oriented with a well educated staff, that will be able to help my customers obtain their goals easily without all the strife of trying to figure out which way is the best way for their goals.:big_smile:
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/07/07, 01:17 PM A lot of personal trainers go for degrees in exercise physiology, exercise science, biomechanics, kinesiology, etc, and then move on to achieve CSCS. -------------- Iron and chalk. ============ Quoting from bisleri: I have heard that working chest and tricep on the same day leads to size reduction of the arms. Is it true. =============
severrin Posts: 82 Joined: 2006/02/15	2006/07/10, 04:07 AM What does the cscs stand for?
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2006/07/10, 12:04 PM Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. It's offered by the NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Assoc.). -------------- Michael Powerlifters - We eat raw meat, and sleep naked in the snow...
severrin Posts: 82 Joined: 2006/02/15	2006/07/11, 01:36 AM oh, ok awesome. Could you guy give me your opinion on my idea about the gym I'm waning to open one day?
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2006/07/11, 02:12 AM What in particular? -------------- Michael Powerlifters - We eat raw meat, and sleep naked in the snow...