Posted on 09/16/2015 9:10:41 AM PDT by dennisw
When Andrew Killion opened District Crossfit in 2010, he was training a few handfuls of people in a converted auto garage.
Today, Killion oversees one of the largest Crossfit gyms in Washington D.C. with six full-time employees — called “coaches” in the Crossfit lingo — who help more than 400 members sweat their way through daily workouts in a 10,000-square-foot warehouse near the booming Navy Yard waterfront.
Now he worries city officials will take it all away.
Killion and other gym owners in the nation’s capital could soon be subject to the first set of occupational licensing laws targeting personal trainers. The Council of the District of Columbia empowered an obscure regulatory panel, the Board of Physical Therapy, to create the new rules, which are scheduled for a Sept. 22 vote.
“My fear is that because I don’t didn’t study kinesiology, or exercise science, or whatever, they’ll decide that I’m not capable of running this place, just because I don’t have a degree,” Killion said. “The whole thing is a solution in search of a problem.”
The exact rules are still unclear, but all personal trainers would be required to register with the mayor’s office and pay a yet-to-be-determined fee. An early draft of the rules would have required that all personal trainers have a four-year degree — the reason for Killion’s concern.
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This is a good example of government overreach in my opinion.
Is it really a proper function of govnerment regulation, to regulate how somebody operates a private gym business????
Just posessing a CrossFit Level 1 or CSCS certification will not be enough to be a coach/trainer in DC. You will have to have an advanced degree in exercise science and hundreds or thousands of hours of supervised instruction under a master trainer.
That means that WITS, CPT, and other training certifications will not be allowed without a four year exercise degree as well.
My observation is that it means more Gov’t employment for liberal/feminazi/affirmative action drones. If the PTB in Washintoon DC can’t expand regulatory authority then their useless eater sons, wives, husbands and cousins are out of a Gov’t job
Congratulations, you have just identified the basis for 90% of government.
regulate it... tax it...
Who did you vote for, Andrew?
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Just Google “The Institute for Justice Exposes the Plague of Occupational Licensing” it explains in detail how much racket occupational licensing is.
You’re a bit low...by 9.99%
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