Wellington wins three Awards at NZ Fitness Industry Awards

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Wellington wins three Awards at the
2014 NZ Fitness Industry Awards!

Wellington’s Nathan Martin, Shane Taylor and Jetts Fitness Porirua all winners at the 2014 NZ Fitness Industry Awards held on Saturday 22nd November at AUT University’s Sir Paul Reeves Building in Auckland.

Personal Trainer Nathan Martin is the deserved recipient of the NZ Register of Exercise Professionals Award for contribution to professionalism and standards. As a well respected and successful personal trainer, industry role model, club fitness manager actively supporting and mentoring a team of trainers, and Skills Active assessor, Nathan has gone above and beyond that of just being a successful trainer. Nathan has been instrumental in creating lifesaving changes to the lives of his clients through exercise combined with intensive support and encouragement, all while meeting industry standards.

Group Exercise Instructor, Shane Taylor is a joint winner in the Group Exercise, pro-choreographed category, and Jetts Fitness Porirua, also a joint winner in their category, has won the Club of the Year (between 501-1500 members) Award.

A full list of winners can be found attached and at www.fitnessindustryawards.co.nz. This includes comments from the judges about the winners.

This years Awards have seen a lot of new initiatives introduced into the process for the first time. Clubs who made it through to the second round of the awards entry process were asked to send a NPS (Net Promoter Score) Survey to their clubs. An all new Live Assessment was undertaken at the finalist stage of five exercise professional categories including 16 international judges judging four specialist topics over three hours.

The 2014 Awards had 19 categories, looking at both individuals and facilities that operate in the fitness/exercise industry.

Most awards are based on an application process that is reviewed by a judging panel. The exception being three special awards which are awarded for special contribution to either the industry, education in the industry or professionalism and standards. These are selected by the boards of The Exercise Association of New Zealand, The NZ Register of Exercise Professionals and Skills Active. The winners were announced at the New Zealand Fitness Industry Awards Ceremony on the 22nd November.

The award ceremony itself has proven to be an extremely prestigious. Past guest speakers have included the Hon John Key, Hon Rodney Hide, Hon Murray McCully and Sue Kedgeley. The award ceremony’s MC is fitness and media personality Suzie Clarkson.

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