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ACE® CERTIFIED PRO MIKE ROBINSON NAMED IDEA PERSONAL TRAINER OF THE YEAR

Posted: Aug 06, 2015 in

An ACE Pro is Honored as Industry’s Best for the Seventh Time at IDEA World Fitness Convention™

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6, 2015—At this year’s IDEA World Fitness Convention, Mike Z. Robinson, a long-time ACE Certified Personal Trainer, was recognized as the 2015 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year. This marks the seventh time since the program’s inception that an ACE professional has been honored with this coveted industry accolade. The award is presented to a personal trainer who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, business management, motivational and instructional skills, and has inspired his or her clients to achieve greater personal growth and a higher level of success.

"Winning the IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year award is one of my biggest career accomplishments and I am honored to be recognized by my peers for hard work and dedication to this craft,” said Robinson. “I’m grateful for the all the support I’ve received from ACE throughout my entire career—from guiding me on its direction to answering my calls every day for the first three months after getting certified. I am proud to be a part of the ACE family and wouldn’t be where I am today without their help.”

Mike Robinson, certified since 2006, is the owner of MZR Fitness and Mike Z. Robinson Enterprises, which offers mentorship and personal trainer development programs, gym design, speaking and consulting, in San Luis Obispo. From an early age, Robinson had his heart set on becoming a certified fitness professional and owning a gym. Two years before his 30th birthday, he accomplished that goal. Robinson also gives back to his community by holding an annual fundraiser benefitting the Family Care Network, which serves foster and at-risk children.

Robinson holds a dual bachelor’s degree in business and kinesiology from Sonoma State University.

“On behalf of the ACE family, I applaud Mike for receiving this top industry recognition,” said ACE CEO and President Scott Goudeseune. “He truly exemplifies ACE’s quality standards for fitness education and we look forward to our continued work together providing safe and effective exercise to help individuals live their most fit and healthy lives.”

To learn more about Mike’s story, watch his PROfile video: https://www.acefitness.org/profiles/243/mike-robinson.

About ACE
The nonprofit American Council on Exercise (ACE) educates, certifies, and represents more than 58,000 fitness professionals, health coaches, and wellness experts. ACE advocates for a new intersection of fitness and health care, bringing the highly qualified professionals that ACE represents into the healthcare continuum so they can contribute to the national solution to physical inactivity and obesity. ACE is the largest certifier in its space; all four of its primary certification programs are accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the gold standard in the United States for assessing professional competence.  ACE also plays an important public-service role, conducting research and making available science-based information, and resources on safe and effective physical activity and sustainable behavior change. For more information, call (800) 825-3636 or visit ACEfitness.org. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE, ACE and ACE logos are Registered Trademarks of the American Council on Exercise.

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