1. FMS – The FMS fills our need to screen movement to identify the biggest opportunities for the individuals we are working with. The best part – it takes only 10 minutes to gain all this valuable information. The FMS is our tool for standardized movement screening to see how an individual, no matter their age, is moving in everyday life. It considers both mobility and stability and equips the professional with information to make programming decisions with precision and purpose
Trainer Certifications
2. Functional Movement Screen Level 2 – Level 1 starts your engine. Level 2 kicks you into first gear. Whether the goal is to take your clients to 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, skipping a gear will damage the engine. Level 2 is the foundation for your programming – the smooth transition from movement dysfunction to competency.
As professionals, you may already be equipped with training strategies, but how do you prioritize and adjust programming based on your clients’ individual movement abilities? FMS Level 2 delivers the roadmap for progressive movement outcomes. Learn how to cater to your client’s individual needs with customized exercise selection while simultaneously limiting the factors that inhibit their progress. The result? Self-aware clients and athletes reach greater heights in lifelong movement health and vitality.
3. Stick Mobility – Stick Mobility is a training system that improves your flexibility, strength, and coordination.
The system combines joint mobilization, strength training, and active stretching to increase athletic performance, reduce risk of injury, and accelerate recovery.
The exercises use our custom-designed Training Sticks as tools to improve range of motion, muscle activation, coordination, and body awareness to build a strong foundation for better movement.
Our system is based on the scientific principles of leverage, stability, feedback, irradiation, isometrics, and coordination and is accredited by:
4. Functional Range Conditioning Specialist (FRC) – A movement enhancement system that develops maximum body control, flexibility, and usable ranges of motion.
5. ART – We begin with a proprietary assessment algorithm process, followed by one or more of over 600 treatment protocols, each providing a specific pathway to resolution for the vast array of soft-tissue and nerve conditions occurring in the workplace. The focus is on pinpointing the root cause and efficient resolution.
6. Oxygen Advantage – Functional breathing is one of the most important pillars of health. In fact, the breath is the first and most basic autonomic function, influencing the mind, body, and personal potential.
7. Animal Flow – Animal Flow is ground-based movement, made fun, challenging, and effective. This system is designed to improve strength, power, flexibility, mobility, and coordination for all levels of fitness enthusiasts. Whether you want to work out on your own, train with a professional, or take part in group classes, Animal Flow has something for everybody.
Animal Flow includes a range of movements and combinations that are grouped into categories we call the “Six Components.” Each Component is designed to elicit specific results. The Six Components can be mixed and matched in many ways, allowing you to incorporate one, some, or all of them in your workouts.
8. ELODA Myofascial Stretching – The ELDOA exercises and Myofascial Stretches are specific techniques created by world-renowned osteopath, Guy Voyer Do.
The postural self-normalizing techniques taught within the ELDOA METHOD are designed to widen the space within a chosen articulation which in turn relieves pain. Each technique requires strong attention to form and correct progression so to experience the best results it’s important to receive instruction from a certified ELDOA/MFS Instructor.
Myofascial Stretching is one of the safest and most effective ways to create space and balance in the body. As the quality of your tissue improves with the stimulus created by the Myofascial Stretches, you’ll find that you have better posture, a greater range of motion, and you are able to perform tasks with greater ease, and you’ll suffer fewer injuries.
9. MAT – With MAT, we focus on the muscle weakness aspect of the muscle dysfunction. Through specific activation techniques that improve the communication between the nervous system and the muscular system, not only do the associated muscles get stronger, but the protective tightening of the opposing muscles resolves. MAT gives exercise professionals a clear insight into the needs of each individual client to ensure they are ready for the day’s challenges and their training session.
10. NSCA-National Strength and Conditioning Association-CPSS – The Certified Performance and Sport Scientists (CPSSSM), specializes in the application of scientific processes to improve individual and team athletic performance and decrease injury risk. The CPSS may be either a generalist, working across the breadth of scientific disciplines, or a specialist practitioner, with training or applied experiences predominantly within one or more scientific disciplines relevant to sports science and sports performance.
11. NSCA-CSCS – Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists® (CSCS®) are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance. They conduct sport-specific testing sessions, design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs and provide guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention. Recognizing that their area of expertise is separate and distinct, CSCSs consult with and refer athletes to other professionals when appropriate.
12. NSCA-Certified Personal Trainers (NSCA-CPT®) are health/fitness professionals who, using an individualized approach, assess, motivate, educate, and train clients regarding their personal health and fitness needs. They design safe and effective exercise programs, provide the guidance to help clients achieve their personal health/fitness goals, and respond appropriately in emergency situations. Recognizing their own area of expertise, a personal trainer will refer clients to other health care professionals when appropriate. CA-CPT
13. Tactical Strength and Conditioning Facilitators® (TSAC-F®) apply scientific knowledge to physically train military, fire and rescue, law enforcement, protective services, and other emergency personnel to improve performance, promote wellness, and decrease injury risk. They conduct needs analyses and physical testing sessions, design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs and provide general information regarding nutrition. Recognizing their area of expertise is separate and distinct, TSAC – Facilitators consult with and refer those they train to other professionals when appropriate.
14. Certified Special Population Specialists® (CSPS®) are fitness professionals who, using an individualized approach, assess, motivate, educate, and train special population clients of all ages regarding their health and fitness needs, preventively, and in collaboration with healthcare professionals. They design safe and effective exercise programs, provide the guidance to help clients achieve their personal health/fitness goals, and recognize and respond to emergency situations. Recognizing their own areas of expertise, CSPS receive referrals from and refer clients to other healthcare providers as appropriate.
15. Oxygen Advantage – Oxygen Advantage: Functional breathing is one of the most important pillars of health. In fact, the breath is the first and most basic autonomic function, influencing mind, body, and personal potential.
As a teacher or health professional, whether you specialism is yoga, Pilates, physical therapy, mental health, sports and wellness, public speaking or presentation coaching, the Oxygen Advantage(R) Level 1 Instructor Training can provide you with the tools to:
- Optimize performance
- Promote better sleep and better quality of life
- Boost energy and focus and reduce anxiety
- Manage symptoms of many common health complaints
The course explores functional breathing from a scientific, practical, accessible standpoint, leaving you free to inspire your students, clients, or patients, whatever their needs.
16. NASM – For over 30 years, the National Academy of Sports Medicine has developed the most successful personal trainers in the fitness industry. Our program provides you with the most scientifically accurate information, all delivered in our new, revolutionary digital learning platform. If you want to become one of the best, most respected, and highest-paid personal trainers, it’s as simple as getting certified online with NASM.
17. NASM CES – By becoming a Corrective Exercise Specialist, you’ll take your fitness career and ability to help your clients to new levels. You’ll learn how to assess clients in a whole new way. It will help you better identify their movement compensations, where they are weak or strong, and hone your ability to use that knowledge to design effective and efficient programs.
You’ll take your ability to assess clients from generalized to specific, breaking assessments down into smaller, more in-depth pieces so you can identify different parts of the body in need of attention.
18. NASM PES – With NASM’s Performance Enhancement Specialization (NASM-PES), you’ll learn how to provide cutting-edge strength and conditioning training for your clients. You’ll gain the advanced knowledge, insight, and skills needed to help clients of all levels reach their peak performance potential.
The 16 modules in this program will also help you meet the demands necessary of a Sports Performance Professional at all levels of sport by providing you with the tools you need to improve your clients’ speed, agility, quickness, lifting, and more.
19. ACE – The ACE Personal Trainer Study Program gives you the relevant skills to design and apply unique exercise programs based on your client’s goals, abilities, and needs.
The program blends evidence-based exercise science with ACE’s signature behavior change philosophy, which will set you apart as a compassionate personal trainer who empowers clients to take the lead in their own journey.
20. ACSM –The ACSM Certified Personal Trainer® (ACSM-CPT® ) is qualified to plan and implement exercise facilitates motivation and adherence, as well as develops and administers programs designed to enhance muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, cardiorespiratory fitness, body composition and/or any of the motor skill-related components of physical fitness
21. ISSA – The International Sports Sciences Association is an organization that operates as an education and certification company for fitness trainers, personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, nutritionists, nutrition coaches, aerobics instructors, and medical professionals.
22. Metabolic Typing – What is Metabolic Typing? Metabolic typing categorizes patients’ metabolisms based on their reactions to certain eating patterns. Consequently, it is a more flexible approach to nutrition. Rather than assigning the same, general recommended daily amounts to each patient.
23. Precision Nutrition – Developed over 15 years, and proven with over 100,000 clients, the PN Nutrition Certification curriculum stands alone as the authority on the science of nutrition and the art of behavior-change coaching.
We’re the only nutrition certification company in the world that coaches its own clients every day, which means everything you’ll learn in the program has been tested and proven in the real world, with real
24. IKFF – IKFF distinguishes itself from other Kettlebell certification courses by our holistic approach to mind-body fitness and health. With kettlebell as the primary tool of CKT courses, the integration of our controlled-intensity kettlebell curriculum with education in breathing, mobility, martial arts, flexibility, and meditation forms our uniquely comprehensive approach to kettlebell fitness education.
25. IKFF LEVEL 2 – CKT Level 2 takes a deeper dive into the coaching and practice of the 5 Pillars of the IKFF Kettlebell system as presented in CKT Level 1 and expands into the mastery of double kettlebell training.
The IKFF reverse-engineering model exemplifies the ability of CKT Level 2 trainers to skillfully break down even the most complex sequences of kettlebell movements into the component parts, thereby being able to model safe and effective lifting mechanics to their students (customers/clients).
26. CHEK Practitioner – CHEK Practitioners are specialists in Corrective Exercise and High-performance Kinesiology. They are trained in assessment techniques and individualized application of exercise and exercise programs. The higher the level completed, the more practical knowledge and experience they will have, particularly in complex orthopedic conditions. CHEK Practitioners have completed the CHEK Exercise Coach program and one or more levels of the CHEK Practitioner Program, including all the required prerequisites for that level.
A CHEK Practitioner has completed all four levels plus passed a rigorous battery of exams, written a thesis, and shown excellence in live presentations. CHEK Practitioners come from a variety of backgrounds including fitness professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, physical therapists, chiropractors, massage therapists, podiatrists, athletic trainers and so on.
27. ACE-COOPER PT – As an ACE-CPT, you will have access to their vast library of continuing education offerings and course materials. Like The Cooper Institute, ACE is a nonprofit and NCCA-accredited program that certifies exercise professionals and health coaches, sponsors original research, convenes experts on physical activity and health, works directly with community groups, and advocates for policies to get people from all walks of life moving.
28. COOPER BIOMECHANICS CERTIFICATION: Biomechanics of Resistance Training Specialty Certification – Decades ago, The Cooper Institute set out to demonstrate that exercise is the best preventive medicine. We’ve since become a leading scientific authority on the health benefits of regular physical activity, certifying thousands of personal trainers who have gone on to be among the most respected in the field. We are so proud of the work you do to improve health in our communities. By reaping the benefits of two great brands, you can do even more to help others achieve their goals while you achieve yours.
Founded in 1970 by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, The Cooper Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting life-long health and wellness through fitness research, education, and advocacy. The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study (CCLS) is our treasure – the world’s largest and longest-running observational study on measured aerobic fitness. Fitness Gram by The Cooper Institute is the national test of the Presidential Youth Fitness Program and is the most widely used youth physical fitness assessment and reporting tool in the world, measuring the physical and aerobic fitness of over 10 million students across the country.
29. TPI Level 1 – Level 1 teaches the foundational concepts behind the Body-Swing Connection™. In this online Certification class, students learn to quickly evaluate a player’s physical readiness using TPI’s physical assessment screen and how the results of that assessment are correlated to the player’s swing characteristics. This is the class that changed the trajectory of the golf fitness industry.
30. TPI LEVEL 2 – TPI’s Fitness 2 online class teaches the skills needed to run an effective golf-specific training program. This class picks up where the Level 1 physical assessment leaves off and introduces the TPI fitness evaluation. By adding screens for strength, power, and cardiovascular fitness, a complete picture of the player’s level of fitness is ascertained. After proper assessment, effective training programs are developed to support the findings, first through the base foundation of mobility and stability, and then through proper strength and power progressions.
31. Licensed Massage Therapist – Practice your skills on contemporary equipment in our newly renovated clinic. Complete the program in as little as 8 months. One of the only 600-hour massage therapy programs in Dallas. Interact with Parker chiropractic students to understand the relationship between massage and wellness. Prepare to take and pass the Massage Board Licensing Exam (MBLEx) upon graduation.
32. NSPA – This course is designed to provide the foundational level information pertinent to aspiring sports performance professionals. Providing firm theoretical and practical underpinnings upon which to build a sound coaching practice. If you are looking to become a Sports Performance Coach or are currently working with athletes and want to become a better coach, then this course is for you!
This is the most up-to-date information in the industry. Topics include modern periodization theory and practice, plyometric concepts & application, Olympic lift teaching progressions, care & prevention of basic athletic injuries, speed and agility fundamentals, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning programs, and basics of sports nutrition relevant to the sports performance and coaching professional.
Become a Certified Sports Performance Coach and learn the latest in strength & conditioning information design specifically for those working with and training athletes!
33. Neuromuscular Training – defined neuromuscular training (NT) as a training program that incorporates general (e.g., fundamental movements) and specific (e.g., sport-specific movements) strength and conditioning activities, such as resistance, dynamic stability, balance, core strength, plyometric, and agility exercises with the goal to enhance health- and skill-related physical fitness components and to prevent injuries. According to this definition, agility, balance, plyometrics, power, stability, and strength training are subsets of NT.
34. The National Council on Strength & Fitness (NCSF) – is a globally recognized organization for exercise professionals. The certification program is accredited in the United States (NCCA) and Europe (EA) offering certification at over 1000 testing sites in 83 countries worldwide. Exercise professionals can specialize in personal training, strength & conditioning as well as sports and fitness nutrition.
The accredited programs can be taken anywhere in the World online using the NCSF easy-learning system and remote testing platform. Additionally, the certification programs are offered through hundreds of colleges and universities across the U.S. The certifications are internationally portable to countries with register systems for exercise professionals including the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and India representing over a quarter-million professionals.
35. Strong First – Enter SFG, the constantly updated and refined version of Pavel’s original kettlebell cert—20 years and over 30 editions of the instructor manual later and still light years ahead of everyone else.
SFG—“G” for girya, or kettlebell—is Strong First’s flagship certification. While strength is the focus of our school at large, SFG pursues broader “extreme fitness” and resilience with strength at its foundation. Like every Strong First instructor certification—kettlebell, barbell, bodyweight—SFG strongly stands on its own—while all perfectly fit together into a system.
36. SGF2 – Take your Kettlebell Instructor skills up to the next level. Strong First’s kettlebell curriculum and training methodology have been developed and refined by our Founder and CEO, Pavel Tsatsouline, for well over a decade. This advanced two-day Certification reinforces the principles and skills learned at the SFG I, then expands on them.
At the SFG II, each candidate must recertify their SFG I skills—and then meet an even higher standard of strength, movement skills, and coaching. Like our SFG I Certification, the SFG II is led by our Strong First Certified Master Instructors.
37. SFL – Barbell the SFL programming of choice is classic cycling—the system behind US powerlifting dominance in the golden era of the sport and many records that still stand decades later. The beauty of this system—in addition to the gold medal pedigree—is its simplicity and time efficiency.
Ron Fernando, a powerlifter who competed during the golden age of the sport, wrote an article entitled “Quest for Simplicity in the 21stCentury” in Powerlifting USA. He started by waxing nostalgic about the best car he had ever owned, a 1980 Chevy Camaro Berlinetta. The ride was fast, easy to maintain, even by an amateur, and it looked good too. He compared it to modern fancy wheels with computers, with too many features and options, a forbidding service bill, and an absolute impossibility to fix at home.
The old-school powerlifter drew parallels with strength training systems of yesterday and today: “These systems, like classic muscle cars, will never go out of date and in many cases will outperform anything touted as new, high tech, or scientific today.”
38. Strong Fist Bodyweight – Our goal is to make you come away from the Strong First Bodyweight Strength Instructor Certification stronger and wiser. You should be able to look at a great many strength feats and exercises—and quickly reverse-engineer them. You might not be able to do them yet—but you will know exactly how to train for them. With the millions of degrees of freedom possible for our bodies, it is an endless and pointless process to catalog a multitude of exercises and their variations: giving you the fish and making you dependent to come back for more. Instead, we will teach you how to fish. Once you have internalized the universal principles of strength, you will be able to quickly apply them to any new strength or gymnastic skills.
“The knowledge of some principles easily compensates for the ignorance of some facts.”
This quote by philosopher Claude Helvétius appeared in the late Prof. Yuri Verkhoshansky’s last book. It perfectly sums up what we do at the Strong First Bodyweight Strength Instructor Certification.
39. Krav Maga – The aim of ESDF reality-based self-defense training is to increase the participant’s skill set, physical preparedness, self-confidence, and mental preparedness for a violent encounter. The training at ESDF allows people of all ages and fitness levels to achieve a higher level of proficiency, awareness, and abilities within a relatively short period of time.
The training utilizes the body’s natural instincts and reflexes in a “fight or flight” situation and transforms them into effective self-defense, therefore, eliminating the need to “memorize” techniques. ESDF offers Krav Maga Self-defense, Weapons Training, Law Enforcement DT and Modules, Combat Arts, Youth Training, MMA Conditioning, Fitness, Warrior Motivation, and Coaching…. Private… Group … Corporate … Event… Certification…
40. RPR CERTIFIED – Compensation patterns are the main cause of non-contact injuries in sports as well as everyday aches and pains that limit performance. Using the RPR® wake-up drills™, you can shift your own body out of these patterns and reduce pain, increase flexibility, and help your body become more resilient to injury.
The wake-up drills™ use special reflex points that reset your body out of these harmful compensation patterns. What makes RPR® so unique is that you don’t need a PhD in anatomy to use them. Athletes do the wake-up drills™ themselves and take control of their own health and performance.
RPR® is sophisticated enough that it can explain almost every non-contact injury you have ever seen and help prevent them from happening again. At the same time, RPR® is simple enough that a ten-year-old can use
41. NESTA – Accurately assess the health, fitness, and skill levels of clients, using this information to create clear, realistic goals. Design workouts based on the individual client’s needs and goals, grounded in sound scientific principles. Correctly demonstrate and instruct exercise techniques utilizing proper biomechanics and motivation principles. Articulate your professional scope of practice as well as the NESTA code of ethics. Detail how you plan to market and sell your personal training services to gain new clients. And how to deliver proper service to maintain your client base.
42. Yoga Instructors – Certified with years of experience in the program providing a comprehensive and deep understanding of both hatha and vinyasa yoga teaching as a transformative, meditative, life-changing art form. You will gain knowledge of the most important fundamentals of a flow-based yoga class so that you can create an inspiring, intelligent, and engaging vinyasa class. You will spend much time discussing and analyzing poses, there will be demonstrations and education on knowing when and where it is appropriate to give hands-on adjustments.
There will be an emphasis on incorporating breath and meditation into your classes for energizing the body, relaxing the mind, and awakening the spirit. This training specifically addresses pranayama techniques, focusing on the western physiological relationship to the respiratory system. For the many positive reviews visit their website and be blown away.
43. Ortho-Kinetics – The Ortho-Kinetics® Assessment is a unique biomechanically based system of combined movement pattern evaluation and comprehensive joint motion analysis. The Assessment will identify postural deviations, discover muscular imbalances, and unveil movement limitations that collectively create compensation, cause pain, inhibit performance, and deteriorate overall health.
Ortho-Kinetics® Trainers and Therapists are career professionals dedicated to education and training. With more hours committed to expanding their knowledge base than the first session with your Ortho-Kinetics® trainer will begin with our Ortho-Kinetics® Assessment which received the premier industry award in 2004 for the most “Innovative Assessment and Prescription.”
Using the Ortho-Kinetics® system as a starting point, our Professional Trainers design a personalized corrective and performance-enhancing program that will address your needs as well as your goals. For any other certification in the industry, our professionals are dedicated to their craft.
44. Alberta Certified – We are a non-profit organization whose passions are standards, professionalism, and evidence-informed education for personal trainers and group exercise professionals. Our certifications are recognized across Canada, North America, and internationally. Powered by the AFLCA, we have supported the fitness industry with certification and professional development for 40 years. Join our community of more than 2,000 certified exercise professionals across Alberta.
45. AAAI Fitness Certification – The American Aerobic Association International and International Sports Medicine Association’s certification system is based on a university model where you study the written material and then attend a streaming educational certification class.
At the streaming certification workshop, you will have an AAAI/ISMA faculty trainer who has a Master’s Degree, Ph.D. or MD as you would at a university. At the streaming certification workshop, you can ask questions to clarify the material that you pre-studied. You can see PowerPoint presentations of anatomy and physiology and you participate in a technique component where you learn the movement skills that apply to your certification choice.
46. CISN Nutrition Certification – e Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition is proud to deliver this innovative certificate course, led by Ian Craig, a leading expert in the emerging practice of integrative sports nutrition. This course supports professionals like you, our peers, with a program that:
- Provides training that is respected by university academics and industry professionals.
- Provides credentials that are recognized by principle professional nutrition and exercise associations.
- Puts you on the leading edge of the expansive developments occurring right now in sports nutrition.
- Demonstrates how you can apply innovative principles to better help your clients achieve their unique goals.
47. USA Weightlifting Level 1 – In this two-day course, participants will gain practical information from top-level coaches about weightlifting techniques, assessing movement, motor learning, biomechanics, effective coaching, and programming training. In addition to covering scientifically based concepts to optimize training and skill learning, a large portion of the course will be hands-on teaching and application of the complete technical progressions of the snatch, clean and jerk, and assistance lifts.
Learn highly effective coaching tips and cues from our veteran weightlifting coaches, who will help you safely and effectively implement Olympic lifting movements in training weightlifters, clients, and athletes of all ages and abilities.
This course balances hands-on learning, in-depth discussions of technical progressions, and science-based programming information. Gain access to proven training plans to get your athletes or clients started with Olympic lifting and enjoy the support of USAW to help you further your knowledge about training and coaching athletes.
At the end of the course, participants should feel comfortable understanding and implementing a training plan, teaching beginner and intermediate athletes how to perform weightlifting movements, quickly correcting common technique errors, and employing best practices in coaching. Whether you are looking to get started coaching weightlifting, refine your coaching skills, or apply the weightlifting movements to other sports, this course is a valuable investment in your career.
48. MI40 Hypertrophy and Biomechanics
- How to overcome any weak parts.
- How to feel your muscle and grow.
- How to properly select exercises that fit your body.
- How to get the most out of every rep, set, and workout.
- Common myths and misconceptions killing your gains.
- How to overcome injuries and chronic aches and pains with proper training.
- The optimal frequency for where you are in your journey.
- Strategies to make the most out of every workout and build your best body in half the time.