Talk:Personal trainer
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[edit] Advert Tag
If you are going to add the advert tag, please explain what you are talking about! Those of us who are trying to clean it up (I personally thought I had fixed the problem) have no clue what you object to. Please be specific, or fix it yourself!
[edit] Pending
Would be good if that section (Not Yet... IHRSA) would include those certifications pending admission.
[edit] cleanup tag
Phrases like "personal trainers are now widely available for a variety of people with a variety of goals (and with a variety of budgets)" seem very advert-like. DesertSky85451 18:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
That's a little excessive. People have actually been advertising their personal training services - that's advert, and those links have been removed. However, it is true that the personal training profession has evolved to the point where "personal trainers are now widely available..." You wouldn't call this page an "ad for personal training".
- See: WP:PEACOCK. We could also say "Plumbers are now widely available for a variety of people with variety of goals (and with a variety of budgets)." It sounds silly because the sentence is nearly meaningless. For example, what does "widely available" mean? Can I get a plumber or personal trainer in, say, Greenland, Afghanistan, or Tibet? People sometimes forget that most of the Earth's surface is uninhabited or only sparsely inhabited. Personal trainers, like most service workers who rely on physical proximity with the client, have to work in or very near population centers. It's best to skip the peacock terms, and just say exactly where personal trainers are available (probably that would be in urbanized parts of the developed nations, at least in the United States), and how much they charge (which the article does state). Let the reader decide how to evaluate the expense; everyone has their own definition of "affordable," and all they need to know is the cost. In terms of availability, it would be better tell the user how to determine the availability of trainers in his or her locale. Something could be "widely available" and yet locally unavailable for one reader or another. --Teratornis 08:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Help this article!
I'm a personal trainer and I see so many concepts in this article that are biased, theoretical, misplaced, irrelevant, need to be sourced, or simply incorrect. I've changed a couple little things to help the article, but I'm not really familiar with editing on wikipedia, so I need to read a lot of the rules and guidelines to make larger changes. In the meantime, this article really needs to be reformatted and I want to find out if anyone with knowledge of wikipedia editing has any desire to work with me to help clean it up? Chikara8 08:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What a huge job ahead!
I won't make the call, but there are so many biases in this "article" that deleting and starting from scratch might be the best fix. Marc W. Abel 02:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
