You want to become a personal fitness trainer and you are told you have to pay $800, $1000, $1200 or more to get a personal trainer certification. Maybe the gym manager told you that the cert was worth it because is “Nationally Accredited.” But are these expensive fitness certs better? At the end of the […]

To become a personal trainer, you have to become certified. Everybody knows that. But fitness exams only teach information about exercise science, fitness testing, physiology, and stuff like that. Fitness certification exams don’t teach you real-life information. This, unfortunately, you have to learn on your own. You can be the smartest fitness instructor in the […]

Sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight of why someone would want to become a personal trainer. I get that, especially if you are working in a busy gym where it seems you are being pulled in all directions. It’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. To help bring back your perspective, […]

I once was teaching a class which included a lot of people who were hoping to become certified personal fitness trainers. At noon, I gave everybody a lunch break and it was then, while I was walking back to the college I was teaching, that I noticed something I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: […]

Update 12/22/19You want to become a personal trainer. You love working out and helping others. You’ve picked a certification and are studying to take your certification exam. Great! What comes after you get certified? In over 800 fitness certification classes I’ve taught, one thing I’ve noticed is most fitness certification focus more on the science […]

Update 2/22/23. As a certified personal trainer,  let me ask you a question. What will you do, if― God forbid ―one of your clients dies right in front of you or is seriously injured while working out? What would you do if ANY member of the gym you worked at died or was injured? This […]