I am a certified Family Nurse Practitioner (Master’s prepared Registered Nurse, specialization on infants to geriatrics) and interested in obtaining a personal training certificate. I am seeking to become a certified trainer and offer health and fitness services. Funny you should say this. Outre le fait d'être une des plus reconnues au niveau mondial, la formation NASM™ Essentials of Personal Training est la première à répondre aux normes de qualité Européenne (EQF).. Toute personne certifiée par la Physical Coaching Academy peut s’enregistrer comme Personal Trainer (EQF niveau 4) auprès de l’EREPS (European Register of Exercise Professionals). Let me know if you have any other questions , Thank you Joe! Seeing that most of the people who have posted on this article seem like youngsters just graduating from college, I suddenly feel out of place. When NASM trainers take the AAAI/ISMA test, they usually fail it! One of the most common questions I am asked is “What's the best personal training certification?”  It's confusing because there are over a hundred different fitness organizations to pick from – and gyms often tell newbies “this one is the best.” Your friends try to help too by telling you what they think is best – but are they right? Combined I know all of these components work together well. My reasoning for taking the course was based on the premise, “why should I hire a personal trainer, when I can be one?” My goal is to work with overweight women that feel uncomfortable in a typical gym and the older population. Gyms have been sued over trainers doing things perceived as inappropriate. I’d think either NSCA or ACE could help suit you as a personal trainer. It is very informative, and exactly what I have been searching for over the last week. Let me see if I can shed some light on your questions. Do they offer the ACSM exam near you? That is the book I always wished I had.It didn’t exist so I had to write it . Id eventually recommend you be a “member” of the ACSM because they have good materials to help you keep up to date on health and fitness. With that being said, it is physically impossible for me to attend in the flesh actual classes to obtain a certification. I’m not sure i’m ready to get a personal training cert but i would love to gobble up as much information as i can so when i am ready I will be ready to help others. if you get an answer let me know. Hello Joe! NASM (1.9) ACE (2.0) NSCA (2.0) Best For. I was mainly curious your thoughts on ER as it seemed legit, but it’s not that I’m opposed to spending the extra money. I forgot to mention that I don’t have any certs or experience in training but I am interested in eventually training athletes. I do think its worth joining the NSCA to get their strength training journals. This is some really great insight for me! Stumbled across your blog while trying to find information on becoming a personal trainer. Here is an ACE cert review that I have on this site. Hey Ivette, thanks Im glad I was able to help and yes please do let me know what you think of WITS. I read ur comments on that..check! They don’t accept them because of the high cheat factor. The idea of “accreditation” has been around for a while and let me give you the scoop on it. It is a take home exam (some view this as a drawback of the cert) but as I understand it, the test is mostly essays and I believe there is also a video portion as well. Check out the resources page of my site for info on how to do this as well as other business related things. I pray that you continue to use your insight to help others. Let me start off by saying that I’m extremely impressed with the level of engagement you have with others on this website. I am thinking this might be an opportunity to redirect my energy to something I really enjoy. In that book Ill explain the science of personal training as well as address the questions you’ll need to know. I have a masters degree in exercise and have written 8 books. I just want to teach people how to work out to either lose weight or to just maintain good health. As a rule, exercise science is exercise science no matter what organization you are certified by, but I applaud you for knowing in advance who you want to help , if you get certified by the senior fitness association, let me know what you think of them. Thanks! Okay I have been researching and researching for a couple weeks now, and being off today due to inclement weather: have literally researched and made phone calls about this ALL DAY LONG. Would you suggest one cert over the other for me? Always best to check local gyms and ask them. Do you currently have a personal training cert? i think your communications degree will help you more than you think as a trainer. Exercise Programming and Equipment 26 Terms. Hey, I built a log cabin by myself this summer. I mention this because I’m not sure if they would cover you for “life coaching” so I think its good to call them and ask about this. Upon completion I will gladly share my thoughts with you. I just ordered your book as I was reading comments, thanks for the link. As such those who obtain the cert, it would be understood that the person has an understanding in nutrition, flexibility, aerobic conditioning etc. Be holistic in your approach to fitness and don't be dogmatic and think that “my cert is the best”. let me know if I can help more . I recently went to an informational hosted by my university in regards to a prep course for the ACE exam. That one comment devalues your opinion all around and you owe thousands of successful trainers your personal apology. Ive never taken it but those Ive known who had, said it was good. The PN Certification gives you everything you need to successfully coach nutrition—in one complete, proven system. ACE - Both are $699 for the standard package. no matter what cert you opt for, since you are just starting out, i do recommend the book i wrote personal fitness training beyond the basics. I remember about 5 years ago a manager at LA Fitness once told me that they did not accept the NSCA certification that I had. NASM, NSCA, ACSM or what? 4. 4 years and about 60 lbs later I was miserable. hey joe, my name is Justin and first off I would like to say thank you for your very knowledgeable website and for you unbiased opinions. Joe, please help me choose a good program, I am so confused because of the many choices being offered. *I promise not to toot my horn since not being properly licensed or certified but one of my students who I believe is 7 or 8 years of aged asked for my DVD so she can have her mom buy it, says she really had fun and she wants to be and look like me. Hi Joe, Think about this and investigate which fitness organizations might make it easiest to help you to eventually get to that goal. I don’t see myself working in a gym, but suppose that’s always a good option to have! maybe you all could form a study group to help learn the material? When I advise caution with online certs, it’s mostly because most gyms don’t accept them. I found an online course that has classes and all kinds of training and course work. BECOME NASM CERTIFIED; BECOME AFAA CERTIFIED; BECOME PRECISION NUTRITION CERTIFIED; BECOME NEAT FIT CERTIFIED; SHOP TRX; SHOP COREFITNESS; SHOP PERFORMANCE LAB; CONTACT OPS. structured lesson-planning – every classroom minute is value-packed People can of course go on and take additional continuing education classes on just nutrition, or just flexibility for example. Since NASM is providing Personal Training Certified course for international candidates, so please advice if this is applicable for all asian countries like India & Nepal. And also, should I go back to school and get a degree in exercise science? I’m looking to start training folks on my own at my house with my own equipment. Now I am no longer working as a teacher and would like to pursue a training career again. Thank you for all your knowledge here on your site. That said, from what I’ve seen NASM makes the science a lot harder to understand than it has to be. Please share you thoughts…. PTA GLOBAL: Morphing an NASM Workout 1 - YouTube. i recommend the CSCS for you since you want to help athletes. Hi Lisa Thank you. That said, if your plan is going in business for yourself, then I have no problem with ISSA because you wont have to deal with gyms. Believe in yourself and keep gaining knowledge and you will be ok. Hi there!!! It’s as much about me -and the stuff /lessons I’ve learned as about the science of personal training. YMCA Suspension Fitness This will also increase your earnings as a personal trainer. You can get a website right now – and I encourage you to do so because you are in college now. I would love to become a strength and conditioning coach some day and be able to work with athletes at any level (high school all the way up to professional if there’s even a chance at that). I am interested in possible teaching bootcamp classes too. Since people with disabilities do represent a special population, I think the ACSM certification would fit well with what you want to do. Other than that,I think you can learn everything from reading/studying, taking classes at college or online and / or taking one day classes offered by companies lick cross country education. While its not really an “online cert” the International Sports Science Association (ISSA) is a test you can take wherever you are located. If your test has more than 3 questions that require math Id be surprised! see if you can speak to former students to see what they thought of the program and if they feel it helped them in their career goals. Knowledge and being qualified as you stated are more important to me than the cost. No certification can guarantee you know everything. Call ISSA and ask them about this. Each quiz has a value of 0.1 CEUs (1 contact hour). Any thing I haven’t thought of, other than the fact that I will indeed get older? That might be a bit faster than sending questions via the US mail. You’ll see in a few weeks . This is a thing that potentially can happen when trainers work bootcampers too hard. I have been looking into ISSA and NSCA. Given that you already work with physical therapists and chiorpractors I also feel you would have a leg up on other trainers who may not be able to as easily network with other medical professionals. For example, some states require people to be a registered dietitian (RD). 2 hours were devoted to exercise science. It can be used to write 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit programs. as you know there are many fitness certs out there. I was a Varsity athlete in high school and was went to a pre-med focused charter school, but then left sports and my pre-med interest to focus on other studies in college. They said that after the course u will receive your cpr/aed license. I would stick to your original ideas. Hi Christina, I think once you get certified and begin working with people your resume will grow as well as your ability to work with people. Most certs fall short on this because they are too hung up on teaching the basics. I mentioned this in relation to the CSCS exam. Then you have the knowledge. question 1 is hard to answer. In this review, you'll learn about the Personal Training Academy Global certification and exam including how much it costs, what you need to know about the course, and how to get re-certified. Sounds like a great idea! One thing I’m particularly fond of is Gary Gray and his son’s functional nomenclature language that PTA Global professionals use to describe a body’s position in 3 dimensional space. I wasnt sure if it was an online cert or not. Glad you have found my website helpful. All the NSCA is doing is a favor to people like me who are more than capable of learning information on their own. I have a lot of people and friends I meet all the time asking me if I would train them just by the way I look because I bust my ass in the gym/home. ACE offers a certificate in Sr. fitness which I could use as CEU’s toward my OT license. I only say this because I write like I talk so you you know exactly what I am saying – without a lot of the big science words. I also would like the options to take continued cert. It's great stuff, but if you work in a gym or are self-employed, you will probably NEVER do those types of calculations. I’m currently undecided on what I want to do with the rest of my life but my passion and love for fitness/weightlifting and helping others to achieve their fitness goals is like a burning fire inside me. I do understand that I will not be able to work at any gym without PT certification, but I’m going to be a self-employed. Although I’ve always been active in running, weight-lifting, cycling, yoga and other team sports, I recently discovered a passion for triathlons. Also, you didn’t mention the National Personal Trainer Institute. Both of them give good information. Also, I write for our site and so the more I can learn in the industry, the better content I can provide to my readers. I’m also curious if they mention anything about exercise-induced rhabdo also. AFAA As for being qualified (and not just certified) the answer is simple: just keep learning after you get certified. You went to school for 5-6 weeks didn’t you? I did an internship, which many do not have, and the course was heavy on science. Thank you for your reply. Everywhere I’ve gone, the comments I’ve heard is that that cert is too technical for most trainers, which may be true; it’s true you have to be able to do some math, but it’s just plug and chug. Some gyms frown on ISSA because it is a test you can take at home / online but that in itself does not mean its not good. It also sounds like you have a great story to share with others. I would greatly appreciate any information you can provide to me. the NSCA also has a personal training cert which is different than the CSCS cert. I am looking to get another cert soon and I was wondering what you thought about this NESTA cert? Thanks for anything you can share. books are extra usually). With your background you could just jump into the senior fitness cert and might be fine. they have a good ex phys section in their text book. work. You can always switch later on if you like. Please respond with some insight. The certs are sometimes taught by the gym staff. I think thats a great idea and I do feel you will have an advantage over “younger personal trainers. Currently I work as a Rolfer for a Physical Therapy/Chiro Practice in Vail CO. I recommend these books: ACSM Guidelines for Exercise Testing & Prescription, ACSM Guidelines for Chronic Diseases & Disabilities. Go to the gym you think you might eventually want to work at and speak to their fitness director. I am a current student at the University of Florida and I have heard good things about the PTA Global certification. While I’m not aware of any cert that focuses on people with disabilities, exercise science is exercise science. Its a great way to get noticed. Hey Ash! I would like to ask you if you can provide me with any information on how difficult math on NSCA exam might be. Your experience will speak for its self. It did not exist for me and so I created it. Everyone tells me something different, they each suggest a different certification. As such I dont think you would be working in a gym. As with the ACSM and NASM, their curriculum looks very intense and science based as opposed to AAAI which stresses more practical PFT information. So, is there a detriment (or benefit) to getting all of the certifications from one organization? its very science oriented and their “CSCS cert” is geared toward athletes too. See the resources page of my site on how to get the NASM books for maybe a little less. Regards, Any advise you have is always appreciated Joe. I want to work with people to reach goals from losing weight and body transformations. 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