Personal Training Certification

I am looking to get certified as a personal trainer. I want to do some part time work this coming summer. What program do you bros recommend? They all claim to have the best program :rolleyes:

I am ISSA . Around here, its all they accept unless is like the college degree kind. I like it too, you can take your time and do it all online. The 50 short answer and 10 clinical study exam was lengthy, but you have years to do it if you want. I think it was $500 bux.

I actually wasted it in a sence. I got sick of the gyms around here and bought my own home gym so I train out of my home. Dont really need a certification but I guess it looks good in your ads and qualifications. Im puttin that baby on my Med school ap though :)

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Originally posted by Billy_Bathgate
I am ISSA . Around here, its all they accept unless is like the college degree kind. I like it too, you can take your time and do it all online. The 50 short answer and 10 clinical study exam was lengthy, but you have years to do it if you want. I think it was $500 bux.

I actually wasted it in a sence. I got sick of the gyms around here and bought my own home gym so I train out of my home. Dont really need a certification but I guess it looks good in your ads and qualifications. Im puttin that baby on my Med school ap though :)

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Thanks for the advice man. I've looked at ISSA's program and it looks pretty good. Did the gyms you applied to balk at the on-line certification? Or did you do the weekend seminar route? At any rate, they are all pretty much study by correspondence, right?

Just do any of them. As long as you have the piece of paper I think that most jobs like that come down to how you look and how you interview.