A common question arises whenever I'm teaching a Suspension Training Course regarding being TRX-certified after completing the course. There is no such thing! You don't need a TRX certification to train with the TRX - and that's the way it should be. You need only education on how to use the TRX properly with a full spectrum of individuals. You have all the certifications you need once you have a single personal training or group exercise certification from an accredited organization. After that, you can stop feeling the need to accumulate more certifications. Instead of additional certification, persue additional education.
Think about it like this...Do you need a dumbbell certification? How about one for treadmills? Ellipticals? What about medicine balls? Do you need a barbell certification? No way, and it's as crazy as it sounds. Companies that create a product and then create a "need" for a certification in that product are doing it for the money - nothing more. It's unethical and greedy.
Certainly, the more technically complex the equipment is, the more there is a need for high-quality education, such as what we deliver in any TRX Suspension Training Course. But the notion that you need to be certified in every piece of equipment that comes out is nonsense. You may need education to use kettlebells, but a certification is pointless. Of course, you need to know how to use the TRX, but there's no point in a certification for it.
Rather than additional certification, it is additional eduction - and the consistent application of that education - that makes us grow as professionals.
Jonathan Ross
TRX Master Trainer
www.AionFitness.com