Easiest Personal Trainer Certificaton

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jewfro18

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Hi Everyone,

So a friend of mine wants to get certified in the easiest way possible. He already has some clients who he is training and he knows what he's doing, but he wants to be able to say that he has (insert acronym) certification. Most people don't know the difference from one certification to another anyway (unless you're a PT or a gym).

I'm pretty sure that there are some certifications that can be done in a day or a couple of days, but I'm not sure which ones.

If anyone has any recommendations I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!
 
I only know Canadian certs, so I can't offer a list. However, going for whichever certification is easiest is really not wise. It sounds like he's working independently right now, but should he ever seek an employer in the future, he's unlikely to get hired based on an obscure, weekend-received cert. Also, many people do know which certifications to look for in a trainer, typically in the athletic population or parents of young athletes. For the rest of the demographic, people are realizing how easy it is to type in the name of a trainer's ticket name in Google and seeing what's up.

Also, I know you say that he knows what he's doing, but having had no formal training in being a personal trainer, I'm willing to bet that there are things that he could benefit from picking up that a $60 Groupon for a online weekend course (yes, I got that in my email once) won't offer. I'm not saying that this is the case with your friend, but I've seen uncertified personal trainers using nothing more than the exact same methods as what they've used for themselves for years, and fitness is by no means a one-size-fits-all trade.

Most employers and organizations in a given area will have one or two preferred (and sometimes mandatory) certifications for hiring, so I'd recommend looking into which one's those are and pursuing one of those. They won't necessarily take a long time to do, anyway. The typical cert in my province takes two weekend modules and something like 80 hours of logged experience.
 
I couldn't agree more with jrahien, going for a course because it's easy will serve virtually no use whatsoever.
I did a number of courses when I was teaching fitness to groups and individuals and studied well beyond these outside it. Personal experience is worth something but understanding what works for me is largely useless to almost everyone else as only I am me.
Get a good qualification, either a generic if needing to deal with general fitness or more specific if wanting to cover remedial, boxing, althletics etc. find one suitable.
 
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