More than half of the personal trainers flunked a fitness knowledge test posed by California researchers.
“It is truly a buyer-beware [industry],” said Steven Loy, professor of kinesiology at Cal State Northridge and regional director for the American College of Sports Medicine.
Only 42 percent of 115 trainers who took part in a recent Exercise Physiology Research Laboratory study at UCLA passed a test of fitness knowledge. Even trainers with at least five years of experience fared poorly, with 44 percent passing.
Justice on the links
John Collinson, 36, a Leicester, England, man who made a living by illegally retrieving balls from golf-course lakes, won his fight to overturn a six-month prison sentence Monday but was told to stop clandestine diving expeditions. The severity of the sentence provoked a public outcry and prompted campaigns for his release. He was freed on bail May 3.
Say what?
`We’re going to play within our means from now on, at least break even.’
–Tom Hicks, owner of the last-place Texas Rangers, who insists he’s through spending lavishly
