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New Jersey Bill Proposes Licensure for Pilates Instructors
Updated on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 04:35PM by
Pilates-Pro
The New Jersey legislature is currently reviewing a bill known as the “Fitness Professionals Licensing Act,” which would establish a State Board of Fitness Professionals and charge them with issuing licenses to “exercise facilities,” “fitness professionals,” “group fitness instructors” and “personal trainers.” This bill is creating buzz in several fitness communities because it includes personal trainers, martial arts, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, boot camp, spinning and any other group fitness instructors in its language—basically anyone who instructs “in exercises designed to improve cardiovascular conditioning, muscular strength, flexibility and weight loss.”
The New Jersey legislature is currently reviewing a bill known as the “Fitness Professionals Licensing Act,” which would establish a State Board of Fitness Professionals and charge them with issuing licenses to “exercise facilities,” “fitness professionals,” “group fitness instructors” and “personal trainers.” This bill is creating buzz in several fitness communities because it includes personal trainers, martial arts, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, boot camp, spinning and any other group fitness instructors in its language—basically anyone who instructs “in exercises designed to improve cardiovascular conditioning, muscular strength, flexibility and weight loss.”
Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 at 06:14PM
by
Amy Leibrock
in Licensing, New Jersey, News/Research, PMA
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