Personal Trainer Code of Ethics

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Code of Ethics The OCI Board together with certified specialists strives to CE establish and maintain high standards of ethical and professional conduct of fitness specialists when providing services. Therefore, we expect the candidates to follow t his Code of Ethics. A certified specialist is a specialist in the sphere of fitness who has the necessary level of knowledge and skills to perform his/her professional duties in accordance with the standards adopted by the OCI Board. OCI certification confirms that the specialist understands the key principles of fitness. A certified specialist must also know and comply with ethical norms and rules of professional conduct, provide services in accordance with the high standards adopted in the industry. Ethical norms and rules of conduct imply adhering to the following principles: 1. To always serve the client’s interests: 1) To remember that the main duty of a personal trainer is the client’s safety, health and quality of life; to never neglect this duty for their own interests, personal benefit, or money. 2) To recommend products and services only if they benefit the health and life of the client, rather than your financial or occupational status. 3) To set the number of trainings based on the needs of the client, not your own financial requirements. 4) To develop personal and group training programs aimed at achieving the client’s goals. To conduct preliminary screening and assessment of the client’s physical fitness level. 2. To maintain adequate professional boundaries: 1) To never use a relationship with the employer, the supervisor, colleagues or a client for sexual, economic or other purposes.

Code of Ethics 1) To respect the client’s right to privacy. Conversations with the client, the behavior and results of training and, if necessary, the identity of the client should be kept confidential. 2) Use physical contact only during training and only in order to correct the client’s performance or to focus the client’s concentration on the body part that is being exercised. It is forbidden to touch soft parts of the client's body. To correct the client's performance, the touch is allowed only on the bony prominences. Stop touching the client immediately if they ask you to do that or if they are feeling uncomfortable. 3) To focus on business relationships, not on the client's private life, except the cases when it is required. 4) If you are unable to maintain the necessary professional boundaries while training a client, end the relationship with this client or refer the client to another trainer or doctor. 5) To avoid jokes with sexual connotations, and to avoid inappropriate behavior. 3. To maintain and improve your knowledge and experience: 1) To constantly strive to keep up with up-to-date developments, concepts and practical skills in the field of fitness in order to provide clients with services of the highest standard. 2) To identify your boundaries in services and techniques and be engaged only in activities that are within your education authority and competence. 3) To assess the client’s health and physical fitness, monitor their progress and exercise performing techniques following the standards set by professionals in the field of medicine, health and fitness. 4) To hold an interest in the success of each client. To motivate people to do sport and to increase their faith in the fitness industry. 4. To make decisions truthfully, honestly and objectively: 1) To clearly demonstrate and maintain honesty, objectivity and fairness in professional and business relationships. 2) To state your qualification frankly. 3) To be truthful and honest in advertising. When describing services, to focus on the main duty – to help the client make the right conclusion, opinion and choice. To avoid uncertainty, sensationalism, exaggeration and inconsistence. 4) To give instructions in a clear and easy-to-understand way. 5) To have a clear pricing system. 6) To never solicit other trainers’ clients.

Code of Ethics 5. To demonstrate respect to clients and colleagues: 1) To act honestly in relations with colleagues, fitness club owners and other professionals in the field of health, in order to confirm that the client receives maximum benefit from all professionals. 2) To never distinguish clients based on their race, faith, color, gender, age, physical disability or nationality. 3) In the event of a conflict or misunderstanding, to focus on behavior, factual information and simple forms of communication, rather than subjective statements, rumors, reproaches and other destructive remarks. 4) To provide complete and truthful information about fitness, so that your client can make a balanced decision. 5) To fulfill all the requirements of the regulatory documents in force at the workplace, and, if there are not any, rely on good conscience, sensibility and justice. 6. To maintain professional image through behavior and looks 1) To avoid smoking, taking drugs and unhealthy food. 2) To talk and dress in the way that enhances the client’s comfort. Every candidate before receiving the certificate must sign an agreement to adhere to the above standards in the process of performing professional activity.

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