Weird. The forum credits it to "Michael Jones".
Looks like it's just both organizations accounting for turnover. They will always lose coaches but they will always have newbies to replace them with.mbasic wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:10 amI remember looking at this back then, its always been around 45 to just under 50.KyleSchuant wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:17 pm Note: there are appear to be 99 SSCs worldwide. This number hasn't really moved for... what? Ten years? They endorse some, some quit, some get chucked out, they endorse some more, etc.
Funny too, I see a lot of completely new faces and names on that page. So they must've lost some.
I don't know if that's a bad sign, considering the new gyms tend to get their SSC from the pool of veteran coaches they already have. Maybe they don't want to eat the risk of owning their business after covid. Sure, the number of gyms go up, but the number of affiliate gyms goes down, so all those veteran coaches are just moving from gym owners to gym managers and retaining their licensembasic wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:10 am Getting back to SS, I'm guessing that's a bad sign if the gyms have gone up in number, but SSC numbers stagnate.
I was guessing the SSFGs would also work as a recruiting too, for new SSCs, as they would provide a place to teach how to coach, with clients, barbells, and all that in one place. Geographically it makes no sense, because the newly minted SSC would need a new gym, or I guess, the original veteran SSC would move on to elsewhere.
The numbers (theoretically) stagnate because veteran SSCs relinquish their license and newbie coaches from the SSFGs start passing by merit or necessity. That's assuming the number of SSCs we're looking at is accurate.
Apt and basedKyleSchuant wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:34 am A trainer friend wrote an article mentioning this,
...Every year 10% of the trainers leave for a variety of reasons...
Basically, unless they make it easier to become an SSC, their numbers stagnate at best, whittle away at worst.