Earn Your NESTA Fitness Nutrition Coach Certification
Get the foundational nutrition knowledge to give clients scientifically-based eating strategies, plus the coaching tools to help them make lasting lifestyle changes.
- 10 video lessons plus the full Fitness Nutrition Coach Manual
- Client-ready tools: intake and health forms, food log, eating-strategy spreadsheets
- Lifetime access to your course
- 100% online training & online exam
- Immediate access to training & exam
- Flexible self-study
- Receive digital certificate upon passing the exam
- Paper certificate with official seal mailed within North America 2-3 weeks upon verification
- Lifetime certificate
- 2.0 NESTA CEUsapproved credits
- 20 ISSA CECsapproved credits
- Lifetime accessto your course
Elevate Your Coaching: Become a Certified Fitness Nutrition Coach
Do you want to help your clients reach their health and fitness goals?
Our Fitness Nutrition Coach course gives you the nutrition science to support your training programs, and practical tools you can use with clients from the first conversation.
Here's what you'll gain:
Science-Based Guidance
Learn how carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fluids, vitamins and minerals work in the body, so you can give clients scientifically-based eating strategies.
Nutrition That Supports Training
Understand body composition, how the body adapts to training, and how nutrition and hydration fit into a client's program.
Real Coaching Tools
Use intake, health history and medical clearance forms, a food log and eating-strategy spreadsheets to build each client's eating plan.
The Power of Integrated Coaching
This program shows you how to bring nutrition and exercise together so you can guide clients toward their own goals, whether that's weight loss, muscle gain, better performance or overall well-being.
Each lesson includes a video presentation that builds on the Fitness Nutrition Coach Manual with practical examples and case studies in how to apply the science. Client activities let you practice as you go.
This program will teach you to:
- Explain how digestion works and how the body uses each nutrient.
- Give clients scientifically-based eating strategies matched to their individual needs and goals.
- Understand body composition and the body's adaptations to training.
- Gather what you need first with intake, health history and medical clearance forms.
- Build a client eating plan with the course's eating-strategy spreadsheets and food log.
10 lessons, from digestion to a complete client eating plan.
Read each lesson in the manual, then watch the video presentation. An optional notes packet helps you follow along, and periodic quizzes help reinforce what you learn before the final exam.
Your coaching toolkit
- Fitness Nutrition Coach Manual (PDF) and optional notes packet
- Client Intake Form, Health History Questionnaire and Medical Clearance form
- Eating-strategy spreadsheets for Excel and Numbers
- Sample food log, Dietary Reference Intakes reference and glossary of terms
- Optional further reading in several lessons (not on the exam)
Course outline
1Introduction to Fitness Nutrition Coaching
The course manual, notes packet and your first client activity: meet your client.
2Digestion and Physiology
Health history and medical clearance forms, eating-strategy spreadsheets and the glossary of terms.
3Carbohydrates
Video presentation on carbohydrates, with optional further reading.
4Proteins
Includes a client activity.
5Fats and Lipids
Includes a client activity.
6Water, Fluids and Electrolytes
Video presentation on hydration, with a hydration awareness handout and guidance on measuring hydration status.
7Vitamins, Minerals and Phytonutrients
Includes a Dietary Reference Intakes reference.
8Body Composition
Video presentation on body composition.
9Training Adaptations
Video presentation on how the body adapts to training.
10The Eating Plan
Put it all together: how to use the eating-strategy spreadsheets, plus a sample food log.
Continuing Education Units
Continuing Education Units: NESTA 2.0 CEUs, MMACA 2.0 CEUs, ITCA 2.0 CEUs, ISSA 20 CECs, Spencer Institute 2.0 CEUs.
NESTA-FNC Certification Details
Prerequisites: None (a personal trainer certification is recommended)
Your certificate
- Invest once, benefit for life: your certificate does not expire.
- Learn at your pace, train anywhere: study online on any device, on your schedule.
- Lifetime access to your course: come back to the manual, videos and tools whenever you need them.
- Convenient online exam: take the multiple-choice and true/false exam whenever you're ready, with 3 attempts and instant results.
- Need more attempts? A $95 retest fee applies.
- Earn the title "Certified Fitness Nutrition Coach".
- Pass the exam (70% or higher) and instantly download your digital certificate.
- Free printed certificate within North America. International shipping available for an additional fee.
FITNESS NUTRITION COACH
Fitness Nutrition Coach
- 100% online training & online exam
- Immediate access to training & exam
- Flexible self-study
- Receive digital certificate upon passing the exam
- Paper certificate with official seal mailed within North America 2-3 weeks upon verification
- Lifetime certificate
- Lifetime access to your course
- 3-Day Refund Policy
3-Day Refund Policy: full refund within 3 business days of purchase if no course exam has been started. Read the policy.
What our graduates say
“Becoming a NESTA Certified Fitness Nutrition Coach gave me a deeper understanding of both nutrition and the behaviors behind it. I now feel fully equipped to help people improve their lives through exercise and nutrition, and there's nothing more rewarding than making that kind of impact every day.”
“I decided to be certified as a Fitness Nutrition Coach. Mainly for myself as I have health issues. This was a very good course – informative – lots of information to take in!”
“I would like to thank NESTA for providing such an excellent certification program. I would definitely recommend this company to anyone interested in starting or enhancing a career in the health and fitness industry.”
“Great course materials. Awesome c.e.u. courses. Very affordable. Great staff support. My go-to organization for current and pertinent health coach and personal fitness trainer information.”
Bring Nutrition Into Your Coaching
Enroll today for lifetime access to your course, credits toward your renewal, and real support while you study.
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