Pamela Hernandez, Health Coach and Motivational Speaker in Springfield Missouri. She also a personal trainer, certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The ACSM is usually seen as one of the most coveted fitness certifications in the world, if not THE most coveted. Because of that I wanted to interview Pamela in the […]

The National Personal Training Institute (NPTI) is a fitness organization that is unique in the industry because it is a school where people attend for up to 6 months to prepare them to be an NPTI personal trainer. This is VERY different from most organizations where people study on their own and take a test. […]

The personal trainer certification issued through The National Council for Certified Personal Trainers (NCCPT) is something I’ve been wanting to review for a long time. Thanks to Rodney Harris, a recent NCCPT personal trainer graduate, I am now able to do that. Rodney left a comment about the NCCPT certification in my review of Online […]

Have you seen the NASM TV commercial? If not, it’s actually a 30 minute infomercial ―complete with a studio audience ―that extols the benefits of the NASM personal trainer certification. This is actually pretty special because it marks the very first time that a personal training organization has taken to TV to advertise its certification. […]

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 tries as […]

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 […]