The 5 Best Continuing Education Courses for Personal Trainers
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The 5 Best Continuing Education Courses for Personal Trainers
We all know this to be true:
If you know more about your craft, you can further assist the people paying for your services.
The Fitness Continuing Education scene can be pretty confusing. It is dominated by the large fitness education companies trying to kindle your spending by stroking your eagerness to learn new and exciting fitness topics. Let us help you unravel this confusion as we explore the purposes of continuing education and give you our 5 most recommended courses and/or seminars.
Learning more about the peak athletic training can create better strategies for improving performance, but this matters little if your main clientele is people with osteoporosis. Make the right choice on building your credentials based on the following three factors:
- Purpose: Why are you choosing a specific course or seminar? What will you use it for?
- Population: What type of client will benefit from the skills or knowledge you will attain? Are they abundant? Is this the population you want to work with?
- Passion: Do you enjoy learning about this topic?
Analyzing these factors will allow you to make proper decisions based on your career and training goals.
Furthermore, there may be different reasons you are now looking into continuing education. Some of you may have procrastinated and are now desperate for last minute CEU’s that you need for your recertification. On the other end you might be eager to continue learning and growing in your craft, and have all the time in the world. Some of our recommendations below may be good for the short term and inexpensive, while some require big bucks, time and travel to complete. Choose based on your timeline and budget needs as well.
LAST TIP:
It is important to understand if you are new to the game your continuing education focus should be on one thing: Business. Other education is not needed unless you have what it takes to build a sustainable career. This is one of the biggest mistakes made by new trainers and contributes to the failure of over 50,000 fitness pros per year.
Below we have laid out 5 of our most highly recommended continuing education courses for recertifying your CPT. For further ease we have listed the pros and cons of each course.
