Get Paid for your Big Muscles
One of the most fulfilling and rewarding events in life must be being gainfully employed in an occupation you actually enjoy. With the continuing growth in the health and fitness industry, those with sufficient drive and the right qualifications should readily find an available position and place of work. Earning and learning in a vocation or occupation they actually love and enjoy. Perhaps you may never become a film star like the handsome Hercules, Steve Reeves, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, making money with your looks and tough physique, or by MUSCLES FROM MAIL as did the old time muscle men, like Charles Atlas, but there?s other opportunities around, especially in the fitness industry.
Leisure centers, sports grounds, swimming pools, recreation assistants, sports development officers, marketing events/ promotions and many media jobs.
FIRST BECOME QUALIFIED. Once you have decided that the Fitness / Health / Bodybuilding industry is for you, you will require a solid educational foundation to add to your ?C.V. If you are still at school or college, aim for at least three G.C.S.E?s at A grade passes or equivalent. Two of which should be science related subjects. Mature students can advance their studies with further education, and evening classes. As can those long since left school with weekend courses. Visit your local library for a wide range of adult education programmes. For careers see the current issue of Careers Research, an Advisory Centre, or CRAC, an independent body. Also Directory of Further Education or DOFE, which will give you an honest guide to courses, listing entrance requirements. Which will compare with total independence course contents, prices, and entrance requirements etc. See also in your library Second chance classes for Adult re-education.
CRAC covers almost IOOOO jobs, also look in the reference section for HEALTH AND FITNESS/CARERS/SERVICE directory. Another choice is mail or private Correspondence courses. There are an abundance of choices in the ever widening scope of fitness / health / sports / aerobic / osteopathy / nutrition / medicine / healing /massage/therapy etc, offering diplomas and officially recognised certificates, e.g. The I.T.E.C. certificate of the International Therapy Examination council. Which was founded back in I973 to provide a completely independent examination system not allied to any association or society. All schools and colleges associated with the I.T.E.C. and conform to a rigid set of rules and standards, governing equipment, teaching and training. e.g. the West London School of Massage.
LET YOUR BODY WORK FOR YOU. Your hobby of bodybuilding could provide a lucrative and rewarding lifestyle. Use your muscle power to become a teacher, own a gym, train one to one, or establish, own or manage a fitness studio.
You wouldn?t employ a car mechanic who did not understand engine components, so likewise you must expect your prospective employer to look for qualifications. You MUST learn basic anatomy, physiology, digestive systems, glands, the functions and ranges of muscles and bones, treatment for sports injuries, first aid, teaching and social skills, etc. Also the sources of energy, health and vitality via vitamins, the essential amino acids, building blocks of muscle, minerals and nutrition generally and specifically. The science of muscle building nutrition moves rapidly ever forwards and onwards.
HOME STUDIES AT LEISURE All of these home study courses, some of which require you also to attend weekend examinations or studies, for practical teaching can be found via the advertising columns of many or most health and fitness magazines. (See also our more detailed lists and advice.)
For example the International Correspondence School offers a total programme of training from basic outlines of the fitness field, exercise and how it affects the body, sports programmes and how to design them, testing and evaluation, life skills, injury prevention, and nutrition for optimal performance. Most if not all of these home courses do just that, allow you to study at home and work, at your own pace as convenient. For those already in employment experience shows, employers appreciate those who demonstrate resolution and application to improve themselves via home correspondence courses. Some top companies will even, when approached, help pay for home study courses. For fees refer to your current issue of CRAC, they range from tens to hundreds of pounds. But all reputable courses will take your personal situation into account and often spread out the cost over monthly payments, often with no interest. As SMAE, one of the greatest and best, long established home study courses say, ?The greatest investment you can make is to invest in yourself?obtain, read and practice. Once you qualify teaching others can be satisfying and most rewarding.
HOW YOU CAN GET FINANCIAL HELP For those short of finances, vocation courses at further education centres/schools, tuition fees may be subsidized or waived completely for selected students who can produce documentary evidence of shortage of cash, via unemployment benefit, giro checks, income support order book, or family credits order books etc. Check the list at your local employment centre. At other times there may be discretionary waiving of fees, if you inform the principal of your department of adult education of your circumstances. You may in fact be eligible for a Career Development Loan to help you pay for vocational training as SMAE is approved. For information, see your local job centre or telephone O8OO 585 5O5 free of charge for an explanatory booklet. See also FREE POST CAREER DEVELOPMENT.P.O.BOX 99 SUDBURY SUFFOLK COIO 6BR. For the SMAE INSTUTE (established since I9I9) for Physiotherapy as a profession tel. O628 2IIOO or O628 3244O or 32449 or write to The SMAE Institute, The New Hall Bath Road Maidenhead, Berks, SL6 4LA.Please mention No BULL magazine in this and all other enquires and recommendations.
FREE INFORMATION We cannot stress enough you should visit your library, it?s the best source of information and it?s free. Specialist books and often videos covering nutrition and weight training are around. Whilst the latest updated information is covered in depth in NO BULL MAGAZINE, or available via its offered book sales.
NO BULL will keep you up to date with all that?s new in sports, nutrition, schedules, strength, fitness and health updates from worldwide sources.
WANNA BE A FILM STAR? Whilst it would be nice if all bodybuilders could end up making their fortunes as film stars or models, but its more realistic to seek other areas in the fitness industry. For many of this you will need training.
You will need information and practical training from home study, further education, school, college or night classes. A gym instructor for example requires practical skills combined with on going work experience. Not only a basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology and nutrition, but to have the ability to communicate
that knowledge and interact socially with confidence.You must also be prepared to WORK HARD physically for long hours and continue to learn while maintaining enthusiasm. You should learn to work out personalized programmes, and diet requirements, allowing for individual pace and capabilities. As a sensible precaution you should also always take out PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE.
RUN YOUR OWN GYM It?s truly satisfying to just run a gym, but other practitioners are also constantly in great demand, and probably better paid. The career prospects are excellent, with vacancies in the health and fitness field and complementary therapies calling for Aerobics instructors, fitness training instructors, one on one coaches, health club and leisure centre management, gymnasiums, nutrition councilors, recreation activity directors, or back to your own home gym for fitness or hard core lifting for bodybuilding enthusiasts.
TRY SOME MODELLING Also modelling sports clothes, equipment, supplements, various training equipment, running or appearing in physical culture, lifting or bodybuilding shows, or as an Osteopath, Physiotherapist, Remedial gymnast, Massage, Swimming pool attendants, Fitness activities staff both at home or onboard ships. Overseas appointments in holiday camps, plus consultants in- Aromatherapy, Hypnotherapy, Chiropractic medicine, Herbalism, Naturopathy and so on. The list is endless and vacancies always occurring.
SEARCHING FOR EMPLOYMENT. Now you have the qualifications and the enthusiasm, where do you find work, the search is on. You will soon discover the harder you work, the luckier you will become.
Look in your local paper (and the many ?free papers now available) and check out local clubs, health studios, schools, Y.M.C.A., and health farms.
Make your local employment officer well aware of your ambitions, availability and capabilities. Keep pestering them so they get to know you and your interests. Search youth clubs, council free papers get out and about and visit shows, exhibitions and sell yourself. Prepare your C.V. listing your ambitions, qualifications and experience etc.
Show a keenness to work, advertise yourself in your local paper and via shop window adverts. Bombard your vicinity with enthusiasm and information about yourself and your abilities. Use photocopies but sign them individually, include C.V?s and add a specifically targeted note to each prospective employer. The present vogue for athletic bodies should mean your campaign could bring you modelling or media work if you try hard enough. Ensure you keep fit and healthy yourself it?s your own best advertisement, good skin, hair, posture and personality should be at their best.
Watch out for adverts in NO BULL Magazine contact MICK HART editor in chief, take out your own advert (in the mag) and sell yourself. Always remember to make replies easier and quicker for prospective employers by including a stamped and self addressed envelope with your own material. Meanwhile keep up with your further education and hobbies, Develop poise, a confident air, clear speech and appearance. A potential employer will look for a clean, tidy and most of all cheerful individual, who is himself or herself, a good example of a healthy lifestyle. We now follow this general advice with some listings of suggested addresses to contact for further information.
Remember these are just random selections, and are not intended as a complete directory. Never send money to advertisers until you are CONVINCED the course is right and worthwhile for your individual purpose. ENSURE you have a MONEY BACK guarantee before enrolling, asking them for references.
No Bull Magazine or the author of this article accept no responsibilities for any reader who may lose money or be dissatisfied with correspondence courses as we have suggested fair safeguards. However, we do wish you well with your studies and eventual success in the health and fitness industry and welcome positive suggestions or experiences.
Recognised qualifications to look or aim for.
Qualified physiotherapists should have the following; MCSP, SRP and Grad Dis Phys.Physiotherapists with an interest in sports medicine can belong to the ACPSM i.e. Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine.
Qualified Osteopaths/Chiropractors need, DO, MRO, LRCPS, LCOM, LRCP and DCh.
Physiologists having PhD, BA and MA indicate university training.
Dieticians, BSc and SRD.
Doctors, D Sp med for sports medicine course. Drs with DO, MRO, LRCPS, LCOM, LRCP, DCh, IOM SOM, BAMM and FIMM all indicate the doctor manipulates (bones not people)
The BASM is the British Association of Sport and Medicine.
For health studios and alternative health practices, look in your yellow pages.
For gyms obtain a copy of SHAWS FITNESS DIRECTORY.
For Nutrition see No BULL mag and its adverts of supplement suppliers, also visit health food stores who often have FREE health magazines.
For membership of BAWLA, NABBA, WABBA, IFBB, ANB, EFBB and other assorted physical culture associations, see again current issue of your favorite muscle magazines. For current address look in Show reports or Whats on for books, videos, mags and other learning aids. See adverts in NO BULL mag.
By Top UK Bodybuilding And Steroid Expert Mick Hart. Learn how to Build Lean Muscle At Micks new Blog
Source: http://therapysource.com/2011/08/14/get-paid-for-your-big-muscles/
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