Personal trainers...

[babymonkey]

I've been looking into getting a personal trainers liscense. I want to learn about personal training and diet and might even do some personal training at a local gym. The problem is there are tons of sites on-line to get a liscense, but which ones are going to be recognized by a gym to hire you. If all will, which ones will teach me the best? I live in New York. So maybe there is a class here to take?

 

[ciups]

post this up on the anabolic board, they have much more traffic, alotof guys there would know the answer

 

[backlash79]

Well you shoudl go find out what certifications that your gym accepts, as you said there are many out there and there is no point in getting one and paying all that money if your unable to get a job with it.

These are my opinions on some certs. from either having, research or speaking to others on it. most of the widely recognized certs have different locations that you can take a 2 day course in. Also most of these different certs have idffernt types of things you can get this is just talking about the most basuic being a certified personal trainer.

ACE is well known but not that hard to get and not all that comprehensive

ISSA is pretty good but a little pricey but well worth the money.

NSPA (the one i have) wish i hadn't wasted my time with it i honestly feel it's worthless but i went through the gym to get it so i thought i'd be good to have. i plan on getting something else more substantial later on.

ACSM i have heard this is very comprehensive. I had a friend who actualyl took a smemester long coruse jsut to prepare for this one.



Also something else you need to realize is, is that a personal trainer is only as good as his/her knowledge outside of the certification.

 

[bignate73]

do a quick search on this site. its been covered many times.

 

[babymonkey]

I usually always use the search option on the site but didn't even think about it this time. Sorry for the repeated thead.

 

[onemind]

Its not the cert. you have its who you are.