Your Significant Role as a NESTA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer
By definition, a personal fitness trainer is a fitness professional that provides individualized exercise programming and client instruction. Programming and client instruction has changed dramatically over time and will continue to change for years to come. Your NESTA education and continuing education courses are designed to keep you at the forefront of the latest developments in exercise science applications within the fitness industry, allowing you to position yourself as a professional in this important field.
How has Personal Training Evolved?
Personal fitness training has evolved significantly over the past 30 years. It is no longer only the rich and famous that have personal trainers. Health and fitness programs have increased in popularity and personal training continues to be among the fastest-growing of all careers. People from almost every demographic are willing to retain professional fitness advice.
Why has Personal Fitness Training Become so Popular?
Primarily due to our rapidly changing society, modern medicine and technology have combined to lengthen the average lifespan. However, many of these technological advances have made our society very sedentary and unhealthy. People sit in front of computers, spend more time on their cell phones and drive their cars more than ever before. This causes some muscles to be overused, weakens others, and increases the average person’s body weight, girth, and body fat percentage. Although the food itself is overly abundant in most areas, it was not long ago that our ancestors had to work for their food daily just to keep from starving. We are now faced with high quantity, but low quality processed and chemically altered food choices.
Our bodies were designed to move and eat natural foods. While individuals in our society are living longer, we are actually “dying” longer due to our habitual tendencies to lead sedentary lives and the staggering trend to consume convenient and processed foods. These convenient and processed foods lack the nutrients our bodies need daily.
Fortunately, people are also becoming more informed about safe and effective ways to attain a healthy and fit lifestyle. Consumers are becoming savvy about the exaggerated claims of quick fixes and “magic pills” offered through infomercials. True health and fitness is neither quick nor does it use magic. Many people now recognize that they need direction and professional guidance. More than ever, personal fitness trainers are in demand; and the need will only become greater as Certified Personal Fitness Trainers seek to bridge the gap between fitness and medicine. You will play an integral part in this movement toward fitness and health.
Getting Started
Check out what it takes to start a career in personal fitness training. This is your most affordable and fastest way to become a highly qualified personal trainer.
Is your recertification coming up? Learn more about earning your CEU credits. You can find the full list of CEU courses here.
If you are ready to start your online personal training or coaching business, don’t forget to learn more about our online coaching course. You will also really enjoy this very comprehensive training course called Online Expert Empire.
There is always something exciting about earning a new training or coaching certification and applying that new knowledge of how you train your clients. This also helps you hit the reset button.
NESTA and Spencer Institute coaching programs are open to anyone with a desire to learn and help others. There are no prerequisites.
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