Why choose nasm

Hi, great information. Thank you. I am looking for a new career later in life and I love working out and group classes. Teaching group classes will be my focused. I do think that it is helpful though. This is especially true if you are trying to do both group training as well as general personal training as you can pull clients both directions to get a lot more work. It also is good to have a general understanding one-on-one personal training for your group classes in regards to injury prevention, proprioception training etc.

I hope this response helped! Hi, thank you for the article. I read the book, did lots of practice test at the app and still failed. Test was hard and nothing close to a book material or any prep tests I was practicing. I feel like NASM is great for those who already have some fitness experience and whar to advance in anatomical knowledge.

Now I feel so much resentment to study again and take the test again. I was thinking to try ACE, considering that they might take a different approach in teaching. Any feedback is very appreciated, please. Hey Yuliya, First of off, sorry that you did not pass the exam on your first try. The test is definitely a difficult one and a lot of the practice tests and study material supplied by NASM are not the best.

I would still suggest trying to go with NASM one more time as it is still one of the most recognized certifications in the industry. It would require less studying overall to stick with NASM, then to switching certifications and trying to learn their information. I highly suggest checking out my personal study materials that will point you in the right direction of what exactly you need to study to pass the exam.

I promise this will help tremendously. Not only do they lay out the weights that each topic will represent on the exam, they also highlight the areas that are most important within those topics. But, I assure you I passed without any prior textbook knowledge of the fitness industry. Awesome to hear Sean, I am glad that you passed the test without any problem. A lot of people do not have the same success that you do on the exam.

The NASM exam is graded on a scaling score which means that some versions are much harder than other versions of the exam. Either way congrats on passing the exam! Does the recertification cost include the required 20 hours?

Or Do you have to pay the recert cost plus the cost of 20 hours? Awesome article!!! It is just to recertify with those certifying agencies for two extra years.

On top of that, you will have to pay a continuing education provider in order to go through a course, webinar or other curriculum in order to show proof of the 20 hours you completed of continuing education. I hope this helps and good luck!

Hi Tylor, Thanks for the informative article. I am from India and my education is mostly related to technical background. Recently past few months I have started getting habit of eating clean and healthy and slowly it has become quite a part of my life and I want to pursue my career as nutritionist.

After going through your multiple articles I have zeroed down to ACE for nutrition coach. Can you tell me something about it? You also need to know CPR to maintain oxygen flow to the brain to keep them alive as long as possible before an ambulance comes. These are general prerequisites for working in a gymnasium and is also a fantastic idea if you are going to be working for yourself doing nutrition or fitness consultations. I suggest checking out the American Red Cross for more information on how to get certified.

Hello William, Although both programs are excellent, if you purely want to work with youth athletes NASM has a youth exercise specialist certification. You may want to look into their general certification, and later on down the road pickup of this youth exercise certification as well. I hope this helps! I love the article and thank you very much for your effort. I am looking to go in the direction of training athletes.

I study training methods, nutrition, anatomy, kinesology, etc. With your info provided, I am assuming ACE is the route to go? Or do you suggest NASM which focuses more on imbalances. But I do not intend on staying in this area for as long as I have to. Eventually becoming a self employed personal trainer is my ultimate goal. Thanks for your time man, have a great day! Well it sounds like you are on your way to becoming an awesome personal trainer.

In terms of training athletes, both will do just fine. On the other note of where you will work, both of these certifications are so highly recognized that any gym you working will recognize them as a top-notch certification. So that part I would not worry about.

If you just want to specialize in athletes, I do recommend picking up a specialization certification. But first obviously, you do need to get certified with a general CPT certification. I really hope this helps and good luck with all the studying!

Thanks for this great post! I still have a question though. Are you very familiar with the senior fitness certs for either? I really feel like the one that would better prepare me for working safely and effectively with seniors is the one I want to choose. Any suggestions? Thank you! Hello Aline, Thank you for the great feedback.

Either way, I would suggest sticking with the same company for both of them although you do not have to do this. I hope this helps and good luck with all the studying! Thank you for all the helpful information! This is to prevent any sort of cheating from going on. Once you are done with the exams for either one of them you will be able to find out if you have passed or failed on the spot.

You will be able to print out a temporary certification online but the full certification will be mailed to you and arrive within a couple weeks after passing the exam. You do not need to bring your laptop to the exam location. You are not allowed to bring any study materials and to the testing area while taking the tests. Have you found that more outside certs offer CEUs for one more than the other? Also is the process easy for getting CEUs approved? Does one over the other present anatomy material better than the other?

Hey Vanessa, In my experience, most full personal training certifications whether is the specialization certification or an additional CPT will offer complete continuing education for the majority of any other certification requirements. I hope this makes sense. Basically, if you need continuing education for the American Council on exercise, going through the full national Academy of sports medicine program will be sufficient continuing education to renew with ACE.

And vice versa. Hi, Im very new to your channel and webpage. Thank you in advance. They have a premium study guide that has helped thousands of my students pass the exam. They also have helpful practice tests as well. Was formally also certified through Nasm CPT. I let it lapse. I am training a few people without a cert. As in my state anyway, it is perfectly legal, up to the gym owners.

Honestly, I use some of the theories I learned from the opt. Model, but never fully grasped it? Learn to stabilize on 2 feet before 1 or a bosu, stability ball. Lunges aldo help to teach balance. I find new people to be very nervous.

So wondering what ace teaches? Hello Monica, This is all very important questions that you have. There are still lots of fitness assessments for muscular imbalances but it does not Focused so heavily on stabilization.

You have to score 70 points or higher to pass. The ACE exam, on the other hand, has questions, but you get three hours to complete it, and all you need is a score of Both programs offer an impressive array of specializations on top of the general personal training certification.

Both programs offer specializations in:. ACE offers specializations in orthopedic exercise, functional aging, pain-free fitness, and exercise for cancer patients. Both can be completed and paid for online, and both need to be done every two years. Note: These reviews have been taken from Yelp. We chose reviews with one to five stars so you could get an idea of what people were unsatisfied about, if they were unsatisfied, and what were the benefits of a NASM certification.

But for the love of god, get sales reps that actually give a damn about their customers. I was certified by them and I wanted to try to get more certifications and I signed up for them.

The manager returned my call but was never available to speak even after calling over several days. Here is everything you need to know about NASM. Please feel free to reach out to me with any additional questions. I did a lot of research and spoke to a handful of personal trainers. I also liked that everything that I read said that the certification included a lot of science-heavy information and focused a lot on the function of the muscles.

Since I had not taken a science class since my freshman year of college, I wanted to soak up this information and challenge myself a bit. My studying was very sporadic at first as I started to make my way through the book, but I started to really focus my studying during the final two months. As I made my way through the book, I created a study guide for myself that included all of the vocabulary words, important charts and notes.

It ended up being nearly 40 pages, but it was a valuable resource for me! During the 30 days before the exam, I made notecards highlighting the areas that gave me trouble and studied them like crazy. I highly recommend using notecards. Both ACE and NASM are known for having somewhat difficult exams that require extensive study, as well as knowledge, on challenging topics such as anatomy, physiology and biomechanics.

Maintaining your certification via continuing education is required by both ACE and NASM as well as all other personal trainer certification bodies. The more CEU hours you need to get within a certification period, the more time and money you have to spend. This factor is based on the number of trainers with a given certification, something to consider if you are looking for evidence as to what other trainers are doing in the industry. They did, however, mention that they have twice as many as their competitors combined.

We do have data on ACE that showcases they have about 45, trainers certified. Winner : NASM. These are common answers that I get that I have an answer for! To me, this consideration may outweigh some of the others — study materials cost, pass rate, CEUs, etc.