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title: "Growing Your Fitness Business, #Lesson 1: Get Certified"
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# [Growing Your Fitness Business, #Lesson 1: Get Certified](https://try.hapana.com/community/growing-fitness-business-lesson-1-get-certified)

 Written by [OneFitStop](https://try.hapana.com/community/author/onefitstop) | May 15, 2015 11:34:32 AM

**Here’s our 20 steps to [success as a fitness professional](http://www.onefitstop.com.au/blog/simple-guide-growing-fitness-business-2015/)in 2015..**

Step 1: Make sure you are registered and up to date with your certification

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Making sure that you are certified and qualified is the first step

This requires no introduction does it? If you aren’t certified and up to date with your CPR, Insurance and CEC’s, put down this guide and go do so. It’s that simple. Would you visit a doctor who wasn’t qualified? We sure hope not. So don’t expect your clients to settle for second best and react differently to you not being up to date. Find a list of great CEC courses [here](http://www.fitness.org.au/courses) and visit the [Fitness Australia page](http://www.fitness.org.au/latest-news/1) for approved CPR and Insurance vendors.

  
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