Barb Seiden is a personal trainer in Doylestown PA. She was nice enough to let me pick her brain about the TRX certification and her thoughts on personal training in general. If you were thinking about getting the TRX cert, keep reading. This should answer all your questions. JC. When and where did you take […]
How to Study and Pass the ACSM Personal Trainer Test
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 […]
NPTI Personal Trainer Review
Update 9/5/20. 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 trainers. This is VERY different from most organizations where people study on their own and take […]
NCCPT Personal Trainer Review
Update 9/5/20. 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, an NCCPT personal trainer graduate, I am now able to do that. Rodney left a comment about the NCCPT certification in my review of […]
NASM TV Infomercial Review
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 I believe its the very first time personal training organization infomercial – at least its the first I’ve seen. […]
How To Be a Certified Personal Trainer: Step By Step
Update 7/26/19. “How can I be a personal trainer?” is one of the most frequent questions I am asked and see being asked online. I’ve thought a lot about this and even wondered what I would have done differently if I had to do it over again. With that in mind, let me try not […]
AAAI/ISMA Recertification Questions
So your certified by AAAI/ISMA and your personal training certification is about to expire. How do you maintain your certificate and get recertified? This is the question I want to address – because I get asked about Recertification all the time. Along the way, I also want to give you some tips to reduce the […]
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist CSCS: Fostering Collaboration with Other Professionals
The role of a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) is discussed as are professional collaborative partnerships with other professionals. A background of strength and conditioning is highlighted, which includes the formation of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), unification of strength training professionals, and how its CSCSs need to be recognized as ancillary […]
Fake Personal Trainer Certifications
As I was driving to a client the other day, I noticed a personal training studio that was offering a “personal training certification” class. When I returned home, I went to their website and discovered that the “certification” was taught by the gym’s personal trainers! This got my spidey sense tingling because, unfortunately, I’ve seen […]