If there ever was a group of people you wouldn't want telling you how to train for fitness, DC bureaucrats would be near the top of the list.
Washington Post - Senora Simpson, former chairwoman of the D.C. Board of Physical Therapy, said in an interview that after 15 years on the board, she was recently told by a representative of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) that she would not be reappointed. The news, Simpson said, came after The Washington Post reported that the board was considering proposed rules for a first-in-the-nation registry of personal trainers that could have sent a shock wave through the American fitness industry.
No state has imposed registration or licensure requirements on personal trainers, and some large fitness companies, such as CrossFit, warned that early versions of the proposed regulations could have required spending millions of dollars to recertify instructors.
The board had also discussed requiring as much as a four-year educational degree for all personal trainers in what industry leaders said could be a model for future laws in other places. Some have advocated such a professional path, saying it will be necessary for personal trainers to be able to eventually bill for preventative services under the Affordable Care Act.
But in a meeting Tuesday, Bowser’s newly appointed board chairman, Timothy Vidale and one other remaining member of the board, Christopher Cousins, voted to significantly weaken the proposed registry requirements.
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