Dubai Sports Council (DSC) has concluded the field visits to all fitness centers in Dubai and commenced the evaluation process to award each center the classification stars as per the numbers of points it has gained, based on the evaluation of services & quality of work, according to the requirements & standards, announced by DSC as part of the Fitness Center Classification System in Dubai.
Ranking results & names of fitness centers, which have gained 5 stars, will be announced during the upcoming period, and will be honored in a respective festival. Other fitness centers which gained four stars & below will also be declared.
It is worth mentioning that DSC has launched the “Fitness Centers Classification System in Dubai”; the first of its kind in the globe, in collaboration with international fitness experts, based on the best world practices in the field of fitness clubs & sports medicine, aiming to enhance professionalism in fitness industry and develop the level of services in Dubai fitness centers.
The evaluation process comprises 17 standards related to all sides of work in the fitness centers, top of which are the criteria of the awareness of the dangers of doping and the efforts exerted by centers to combat doping & to make people aware of its serious consequences. DSC confirmed that the fitness centers’ efforts to combat doping & to implement the contents of awareness of doping dangers are among the most eminent factors to name centers which are eligible to gain five stars in the Classification system.
The Classification standards also include quality & excellence of the facility, besides the quality & variety of its devices, management & staff’s competency, ratio of trainees to each trainer, in addition to the quality of services & availability of all factors needed by trainees in terms of care & healthy nutrition and so many other elements. The Classification system comprises 82 sub-factors associated to the 17 main standards, based on which all fitness centers in Dubai are evaluated by specialized & competent teams.
DSC works in collaboration with specialized governmental entities to implement the standards of the quality of work & services which are presented to trainees of various ages & different classes aiming to ensure trainees’ safety and to make the fitness centers as destinations for activity, vitality, health, happiness and spreading of the awareness of the benefits of intact nutrition, proper bodybuilding & combating of doping which threatens trainees’ life.
