You will need to comply with this code if you intend to provide fitness services. Fitness services include:
- exercise screening
- individual or group exercise programs
- providing fitness equipment at a gym for use by clients.
This code aims to:
- ensure appropriate standards of services are maintained in the fitness industry
- encourage and maintain customer confidence in the fitness industry
- support and promote the fitness industry.
This code does not apply to:
- registered medical practitioners
- registered physiotherapists
- sports training provided by a sporting club
- fitness services provided by an educational institution for exclusive use by staff or students
- people training in or performing martial arts, dancing or ballet
- using a spa bath, sauna bath, swimming pool or similar facility if no other fitness service is provided
- fitness services provided solely for medical rehabilitation
- hiring court facilities for playing sport.
