National Health Educators Certification

[trihhher69]

Hi Missy. The National health educators nutrition program is killer. The best on the market. The problem with collaborating with other students is that you don't know which exam you are going to get. With the exception of the level one program, each master and nutrition exam has a correlating study guide because of the online format. The level one is proctored and the classes are done in a classroom setting. I recommend just buying one because your chances of passing without it are not good.

 

[msstreisand]

The National Health Educators Master Program is BRUTAL! My gym just started accepting their certification after I told the owners about it. I hope you pass on your first attempt. Much luck!

Ciao!

 

[trihhher69]

What gym do you work at? How is the clientele base as opposed to last year around this time?

 

[msstreisand]

I work at LA Fitness and it's slowed down alot. I used to serve 20 clients a week and I'm now seeing about 15. It's o.k. because I have a pretty decent home base clientelle and through referals, its growing at a good pace.

 

[trihhher69]

Is LA Fitness like 24 hour fitness, where you have to sell supplements in order to make any real money? That one of the reason's I'm getting as many certifications as possible because I want to focus solely on personal training. I am not interested in selling anyones products.

 

[Topple]

Hi evreryone! I just signed up on the NHE volunteer program and I'm looking forward to getting the certification. I've heard nothing but good things about the organization. There are only two trainers at the gym I work at and so getting work should be pretty good. The membership base there doesn't seem to have slowed down much but maybe it's because we're in Califiornia where everybody works out.

 

[msstreisand]

Do you guys get paid more for possessing multiple certifications? That seems to be the way gyms are recruiting better talent. I'm not sure that is always the case though. I know of trainers who are very good but only have one certification and a couple who don't have ONE!

 

[Topple]

If a trainer has three certifications, he/she gets 55% of the trainer fee. That's not too bad because if I owned my own shop, I would problay pay out about 45% of what I brought in simply maintaining the facility (lights, a/c, property fees, lease, etc.). If a trainer only has one certification then the pay is 30%.

 

[msstreisand]

That's not bad. They sure seem to want to encourage education and knowledge. It seems to be the trend these days to have multiple certifications.

 

[Topple]

I have an AFAA Certification too. If I knew about the national health educators certification prior to taking the AFAA test, I would have chosen NHE over AFAA. The AFAA manual, compared to the NHE manual, is very elementary. AFAA is good for beginners, which I'm not. Once I start making better money, I'm going to get the NASM certification because that one is propably one of the best out there and most respected.