Should I do it?

Today three people asked me how to eat and what they recommend for their particular fitness/weight loss dilemma. And it's funny b/c I'd say at least once or twice a month, someone asks me for help.  The other day at the gym, a total stranger asked me if I was a runner and when I told her know, she wanted to know what I do as my fitness routine.  I've been thinking a lot about starting my own in home personal training studio/business but we don't have the house to do it in right now and I really need to get my actual personal training credential I suppose to be legal!!  I guess I've always fought the fitness industry's money hungryness.  It drives me nuts b/c even thoughI have a degree in Kinesiology, they always want you to get the certs.  And I think it's kind of lame b/c a person that has had no college degree in Kines can study and take an exam and become a personal trainer, or take a one or two day course and become a fitness instructor.  I see their point, b/c I totally agree with being excellent and knowledgeable in what you are doing, but I would think a degree would say enough.  I learned pretty much all of the stuff you learn when you take a personal trainer and fitness instructor exam.  Maybe not so concentrated and focused , but that's why I've never wanted to get the certs and pay all that money.  But I really love to help people with this and I'm thinking I should probably just bite the bullet and do it so I can be more marketable.  We don't have the space for it now and I wouldn't try it until Adi was a little older, but I think I will plan to start doing it when we get to our next base.

And on that note, let's do a fitness tip ;-D  Once a month, change up your routine take a fitness class that you've never taken before.  Try it two or three times and you'll shock your body out of its comfort zone and wake up some muscles you might have forgotten about or it may just work on a different part of a muscle that your normal exercises don't hit.  Though I haven't done the research to be sure, I believe it'll kick your metabolism into high gear for a while too since it's something it's not used to.  I'm reminded of this b/c I'm still feeling a few of the muscles I awoke from the circuit class I took last Friday that I can hardly ever make it to (It is SO rare for me to make it to the gym by 8:30 am which is when it starts!!).