The majority of what I've learned didn't come from the pieces of paper I got at college - It came from personal research, speaking to people - trainers, training partners etc and my own experience working in gyms.

Plenty of the people I went to college with passed academically but the idea that they are training people etc is scary because despite being qualified a lot of them still don't have a clue.

Not that this changes my opinion on 'who's friend is right' etc... just playing devil's advocate... and reminding you all to keep it civil (you are... at the moment )