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Say No to Nickle & Diming, Pay Me
There is nothing more disrespectful than for you ask me to lower my prices for your health services. When it comes to health care and the ability to find value within your self and your services, the disgust has risen to a new level when asked to take a lower price for physical activity training. Corry Whitaker has been in the phys- ical fitness arena coaching and training for well over twenty years. She began training clients before entering college and got a job straight away out of college on-site at a corporate location, making a salary in the ballpark of $30-$34K yearly.
Here we are twenty years later, and the population of wellness centers and nutrition centers are opening on every corner with the promise of clients to lose drastic amounts of weight with little to no exercise. Fake foods
health and do not value the time of the physical fitness professional. My question to them is, will you ask your physician and surgeon for a discount on the rate of your hospital and surgery visit?
What I would like to see happen is a Union Formed for Physical Fitness Professionals that maintains order and respect of livable, sustainable wages. The practice and care performed along with the countless hours of study and recertifications, updates, etc. must count for some- thing as we continue to enhance our ability to provide a service of healthcare. How is it, companies can charge the insurance companies for physical fitness, physical activi- ty care by giving advise on a call-in but they will not pay the trainers?
My hope is there will be some type of regulation in
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and shakes, yes cause a weight loss, but without prop- er balance, once the thousands of dollars are spent and the shakes are gone, will the weight return? Yes, because you haven’t reprogrammed the mind to be disciplined to eat real foods.
Twenty plus years later, copious amounts of extend- ed studies, degrees and certificates, and companies, as well as some individual clients, want to nickel and dime you to death for little to no pay. It should be illegal for companies to suggest paying professional trainers near minimum wage when insurance premiums are lowered with the improvement of the health of their clients. In the job market, corporations will pay a science degree student nearly $80K yearly salary to sit in an office to an- swer questions about physical fitness; zero experience. VS. not hiring the nonscience degree college graduate with professional certificates and course works in sports science and fitness. Some companies would prefer their employees to stay sick and overweight on pharmaceuti- cals with higher insurance premiums.
An overweight, unhappy society is a society that keeps the FDA (Food, Drug, Administration), in business due to their blind ability to over consume, medicate, and roll the hamster wheel. I have found the clients that want to pay less for their services have a higher drop out rate from physical routine because they do not value their
physical fitness trainers receiving a sustainable, livable wage because so much happens within the lives of the clients that do the work of self-care. The bodies change, the mental health levels increase, and they perform bet- ter work services, as-well-as the office environments be- come a healthier, happier place to work. If anyone read- ing this article has the where-with-all in forming unions on behalf of the people. I’m interested in hearing from you. After twenty years of doing the same job and staying abreast on current trends and updated training methods surely, we deserve an increase in pay.
Baseline pay for a physical fitness trainer with twenty years in service must measure with all professional level practices. We add value to people’s lives. At the very least companies should start trainers at a minimum of $100 per hour both at the public and private sector. How much does a doctor earn per hour? In comparison, do a study group of clients participating in physical activity with a physical fitness professional vs. clients participating in pharmaceuticals with a health care doctor practitioner. Out of the two groups, who would you say has a healthier lifestyle with a healthy body, mind, spirit composition? I would like to see this happen and then maybe perhaps all physical fitness professionals will get a raise, and the value will stop be devalued with the requests of a lower price. Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy Spirit comes with an effort, not a prescription for meds.
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