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Karl Kox

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Personal trainers certification
« on: May 22, 2008, 04:28:34 PM »
Wheres the best place to get it ?
I noticed there are a lot of places to get it.
Are they all the same certification
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 04:37:24 PM »
In my opinion the best are through NSCA and ACSM.
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Karl Kox

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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 04:37:57 PM »
Quote from: Knowledge on May 22, 2008, 04:37:24 PM
In my opinion the best are through NSCA and ACSM.


is that a online thing or do you go some place
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 04:58:35 PM »
Quote from: Knowledge on May 22, 2008, 04:37:24 PM
In my opinion the best are through NSCA and ACSM.

I agree, along with taking the CSCS
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2008, 05:00:54 PM »
Quote from: Karl Kox on May 22, 2008, 04:28:34 PM
Wheres the best place to get it ?
I noticed there are a lot of places to get it.
Are they all the same certification
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2008, 06:54:05 PM »
Quote from: Knowledge on May 22, 2008, 04:37:24 PM
In my opinion the best are through NSCA and ACSM.

yea pretty much, those are the only way to go. It will set u apart from the 18 yr old pimply faced 146lbs trainers with there NASM, ISSA, or ACE certs.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2008, 06:55:06 PM »
Quote from: Karl Kox on May 22, 2008, 04:28:34 PM
Wheres the best place to get it ?
I noticed there are a lot of places to get it.
Are they all the same certification

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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2008, 07:03:54 PM »
Its almost impossible to get a certificate, you damn near have to be a rock scientist or engineer, forget about it!  ;D


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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2008, 07:09:29 PM »
The ACSM is a great cert, to have it's very clinical! Unlike most of the other certs. they don't give the test after the workshop. You have to take it at a testing center! Make sure you study has a pass rate of only 63%! I took the ACSM cPT after I graduated with my B.S. in exercise physiology!
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2008, 08:35:51 PM »
i just took affa test
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2008, 11:55:50 PM »
I have a B.S. in Health and Human Performance and am Brushing up on all my shit to take the C.S.C.S.  I still associate and keep in contact with some of my professors in order to ask questions and get clarifications in certain areas where I may gain a better understanding through asking/learning over again.  Either way the CPT through ACSM and the CSCS through NSCA is gonna be the BEST option for anyone especially if you want to work at a legit gym and make some decent money.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2008, 12:10:29 AM »
which are the ones you get in a month? ;D
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2008, 02:57:34 AM »
Quote from: flexingtonsteele on May 22, 2008, 06:54:05 PM
yea pretty much, those are the only way to go. It will set u apart from the 18 yr old pimply faced 146lbs trainers with there NASM, ISSA, or ACE certs.

Canidizzle is a nice kid, leave him alone ;D
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2008, 03:06:42 AM »
Can't you just fake a certificate through the internet - like you can with Harvard or Yale?  ;D
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2008, 03:27:18 AM »
Quote from: danielson on May 23, 2008, 02:57:34 AM
Canidizzle is a nice kid, leave him alone ;D

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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2008, 04:16:02 AM »
hahaha...unless a trainer does this move then I am not impressed!!

can you imagine if this douche slips...
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2008, 04:17:57 AM »
I never get tired of that picture. I have a thousand images goin' through my head of what could happen just a second after.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2008, 04:24:25 AM »
in my country its FIA, AIF or TAFE all the same certifications, but FIA is the best (albeit most expensive too  :-\ )
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2008, 06:52:45 AM »
NASM sucks out loud. I wouldn't let anyone work in my gym with one of those. Anything over the internet wouldn't cut it either. ACE is better for that level of cert.

The real thing is what you do after you get certified. Do you continue learning by reading medical journals etc? Do you learn nutrition on a molecular level and learn how to apply all these things to different people in different scenarios? Can you recognize a tight gracilis and understand the implications and effects of it? How would you fix it while continuing on towards the end goal of the client?  Etc...
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2008, 06:56:25 AM »
Unless you look the part any degree is useless.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2008, 07:08:43 AM »
Quote from: KillerMonk on May 23, 2008, 06:56:25 AM
Unless you look the part any degree is useless.

Completely not true. That thinking paves the way for the know nothing,  maybe in shape maybe out of shape trainers that infest most corporate big box gyms. It never hurts to look strong and healthy of course, but it's what you know that keeps clients as well as generates refferals.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2008, 07:25:25 AM »
ISSA seems good.
I was helping my wife ger her
Certification, and it was quite
educational in some areas.
Plus it is accepted everywhere.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2008, 07:26:35 AM »
Quote from: Karl Kox on May 22, 2008, 04:28:34 PM
Wheres the best place to get it ?
I noticed there are a lot of places to get it.
Are they all the same certification

why do you want to get certified?  if you want to work as a trainer you have to be a salesman first and foremost. otherwise, a doctorate in physiology and kenseiology from Harvard won't do shit for you.  Ask Joe/Coach about the importance of sales and marketing in a pt business.
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2008, 07:27:32 AM »
Quote from: emn1964 on May 23, 2008, 07:26:35 AM
why do you want to get certified?  if you want to work as a trainer you have to be a salesman first and foremost. otherwise, a doctorate in physiology and kenseiology from Harvard won't do shit for you.  Ask Joe/Coach about the importance of sales and marketing in a pt business.

Very true!
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Re: Personal trainers certification
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2008, 07:30:37 AM »
Quote from: BigJ on May 23, 2008, 03:06:42 AM
Can't you just fake a certificate through the internet - like you can with Harvard or Yale?  ;D

Well that's how Goodrum got his.
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