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Fitness Business Scope Of Practice
As a professional your fitness business has a distinct responsibility of staying within a particular scope of practice. Many personal trainers either have no idea about this scope, or simply ignore it. 
When a personal training business signs up a new client the fitness professional does whatever they can to help that client reach their ultimate goals even if it requires doing things they are not qualified for. This all comes from a desire to impress the new client by having all the answers. Don’t you want your fitness business to look brilliant?
So in order to impress clients many fitness trainers play doctor, physical therapist, massage therapist, psychologist, nutritionist, and even chiropractor. You quickly forget you are a professional fitness trainer, and not one of the professions mentioned above.
Crossing outside of your personal trainer business scope of practice can be very dangerous! You are not qualified, or licensed to be a doctor, or physical therapist. Therefore, do not pretend to be one. Doing so will be setting yourself up for potential legal trouble.
So what can you do? What is a professional fitness trainers scope of practice? It is to assist, or coach pain free individuals into better physical conditioning leading to greater health, and well being. The key word is pain free. If a client has pain that is where a fitness business should be referring out to a qualified health care practitioner.
