National Health Educators Certification

[Jennsfitness]

I took the Master Trainer certification last Sunday and it was very difficult. I got the study guide which was totally awesome. The NHE study guides focus only on your particular exam, to help prevent you from having to study a ton of topics you're not going to be tested on. Every question was covered in the study guide and so I believe I did very well. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. It's a great program in any event and if I have to take the exam again, I will because I really want the certification, plus retakes are free so I figure why not.

 

[hastingsjohn]

Hi there - how much is the study guide?

 

[Jennsfitness]

It was a couple hundred bucks I think. It's worth it because you get two additional retakes if you need them. That takes a lot of pressure off the first taking.

 

[Scorpio66]

I would like to know how many of you all have passed the Master's exam and was able to get a job any type of job using an NHE certifation

 

[scauffbillme]

[FONT=&quot]Fifty percent of college graduates can't get a job today, forget about a certification from some place. Besides, you don't get a certification, no matter who it's from, just to get a job. You get a certification to learn that organization's program so that you become a better, more rounded professional. The idea that you get a certification and then go out and get a job is something only someone who never went to college would think because of their naive beliefs about how the employment world really works. Eighty percent of all 'certified' trainers quit the industry before their five year anniversary. It's all an illusion. If you think you're going to be a professional personal trainer at some gym somewhere, you are kidding yourself. The only way to make it as a personal trainer is to open your own place and if you're doing that, it doesn't matter who you are certified from. It only matters that you are a good trainer with excellent marketing capabilities.[/FONT]