The American Sports and Fitness Association (ASFA) offers a broad range of personal training certifications, all 100% online; however, one crucial fact that makes them stand out from the rest is that students only pay if they pass the test. This not only makes for a quick way to become certified, it also makes the […]

The Global Fitness Educators (GlobalFit) personal training certification workshops is something you may have heard about if you belong to LA Fitness or other gyms. To help you decide if GlobalFit is legit and worth it, this review will focus on the basics, such as how much it costs, is it accredited, what’s the difference […]

Updated January 21 2025: PTA Global is a popular fitness certification organization. This review will be about the PTA Global certified personal trainer certification. 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 […]

Update 7/11/19. WITS stands for World Instructor Training Schools and is one of the organizations that certifies personal trainers. They have been around since at least the 90s when I first heard about them. Over the years, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about WITS such as is it a good cert, do gyms […]

Update 8/25/20. The day has arrived, your package from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) is in your hands and you can’t wait to see what’s inside and get started on your new and exciting career! You open it up and start to look through it and almost immediately have that same feeling that a […]

Have you ever wondered what’s better, the NSCA or the NASM certification? Odds are, more than one person thinking about how to be a personal trainer has pondered this because both NASM and NSCA are heavy hitters in the personal trainer certification game. I started thinking about this question after I got an email from […]

Update 7/12/19. As I write these words, there are over 100 different fitness organizations that certify personal trainers. For many people wanting to get certified, choosing a personal trainer cert is as easy as saying “ACE” or “NASM” while for others, it’s paralysis by analysis. There are so many letters (acronyms) out there ―and each organization […]

Update 2/22/23. 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 […]

Updated March 20, 2024. I get a lot of questions about the AAAI/ISMA personal trainer test.  It makes sense as this is the most popular class I teach.  I want to help you if you are trying to pass this certification test.  What I’d like to do is tell you about how the AAAI/ISMA certification […]