{"id":373,"date":"2019-02-21T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pss.austincc.edu\/exercise\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2020-04-10T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:36:35","slug":"meet-yaz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/meet-yaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Yaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-323 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/YazPicFinal-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Former Student, Yasmin Exercise Science department\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yaz, give a little background history of yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am from Spain. I started seriously working out 10 years ago. My favorite type of working out is weight lifting. I worked in a gym in Spain as a weight room monitor and I liked it. That is when I realized I wanted to be a personal trainer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What made you decide to pursue this area of study (i.e. Personal Fitness Training)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I wanted to specialized in personal trainer and have a better knowledge of exercise training after I received my Sport Technician certificate in Spain (so that I can be a more knowledgeable professional).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What made you to decide to pursue this interest in the Personal Fitness Trainer program at ACC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Universities did not offer the specific program that I was looking for.\u00a0\u00a0 ACC offered it and it just as good as if I were in an University program (in my opinion).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What was the hardest part of the program?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The hardest part of the program was some specific subjects were you need to study a bit more and not missing the explanations and theory of some classes that have both theory and practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What was the best\/most beneficial part of the program?<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I finally got to train a client.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you currently employed as a Personal Fitness Trainer?\u00a0 If so, at what capacity?\u00a0 If not, why not?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not currently employed as a Personal Fitness Trainer cause I am in the process of getting my US residency in order to work legally, therefore no, I am not currently working because I am still an International Student.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you had a single piece of advice for someone interested in being a Personal Fitness Trainer, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do not miss a class and enjoy the program.\u00a0 Do not give up!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/our-students\/\">Meet a Graduate<\/a> Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaz, give a little background history of yourself. I am from Spain. I started seriously working out 10 years ago. My favorite type of working out is weight lifting. I worked in a gym in Spain as a weight room monitor and I liked it. That is when I realized I wanted to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":false,"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/exercise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}