Government-Approved Workouts? The Fight Against Fitness Licensing. - Reason.com - Zach Weissmueller & Mark McDaniel:
January 19, 2018 - "Almost everything the federal government has told the public about healthy diets over the past three decades may have been wrong. The U.S. Surgeon General suggested avoiding saturated fats and prioritizing grains and other carbohydrates. Low-fat products started filling the aisles at grocery stores, as families tried to follow the government's infamous food pyramid. Obesity rates continued to climb, and some dissenting scientists and started questioning the consensus. The U.S. government and major health organizations were slow to react, but in recent years have finally started updating the official recommendations.
"Is the exact same scenario about to play out in the fitness industry?
"'All of these government agencies, all of our universities, they've all sat silent through one of the worst declines in health the modern world has ever seen,' says Greg Glassman, who's the founder of Crossfit, which runs more than 14,000 gyms around the world.... Crossfit's explosive growth was made possible in part by the lack of regulation in the fitness industry.... Crossfit was free to run its own certification program, which flouts most of the conventional nutrition and exercise advice championed by government and academia.
"The company regularly spars with fitness credentialing organizations with different exercise philosophies, like the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the American Council on Exercise (ACE). Several of them have united under the banner of the Coalition for the Registration of Exercise Professionals (CREPS), an industry group that regularly lobbies for regulation of the fitness industry. The fight is occuring largely behind-the-scenes at state legislatures across the country, where licensing laws have been introduced on 26 separate occasions since 2005. Crossfit supporters have pushed back just as hard, at times showing up in person to speak out against the bills.
"The one place Crossfit lost is Washington, D.C., which passed the nation's first fitness trainer licensure law in 2014.
"It's an attempt to silence Crossfit on the subjects of nutrition and exercise," says Glassman."
Read more: https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/01/19/government-approved-workouts
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January 19, 2018 - "Almost everything the federal government has told the public about healthy diets over the past three decades may have been wrong. The U.S. Surgeon General suggested avoiding saturated fats and prioritizing grains and other carbohydrates. Low-fat products started filling the aisles at grocery stores, as families tried to follow the government's infamous food pyramid. Obesity rates continued to climb, and some dissenting scientists and started questioning the consensus. The U.S. government and major health organizations were slow to react, but in recent years have finally started updating the official recommendations.
"Is the exact same scenario about to play out in the fitness industry?
"'All of these government agencies, all of our universities, they've all sat silent through one of the worst declines in health the modern world has ever seen,' says Greg Glassman, who's the founder of Crossfit, which runs more than 14,000 gyms around the world.... Crossfit's explosive growth was made possible in part by the lack of regulation in the fitness industry.... Crossfit was free to run its own certification program, which flouts most of the conventional nutrition and exercise advice championed by government and academia.
"The company regularly spars with fitness credentialing organizations with different exercise philosophies, like the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the American Council on Exercise (ACE). Several of them have united under the banner of the Coalition for the Registration of Exercise Professionals (CREPS), an industry group that regularly lobbies for regulation of the fitness industry. The fight is occuring largely behind-the-scenes at state legislatures across the country, where licensing laws have been introduced on 26 separate occasions since 2005. Crossfit supporters have pushed back just as hard, at times showing up in person to speak out against the bills.
"The one place Crossfit lost is Washington, D.C., which passed the nation's first fitness trainer licensure law in 2014.
"It's an attempt to silence Crossfit on the subjects of nutrition and exercise," says Glassman."
Read more: https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/01/19/government-approved-workouts
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