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NESTA/Spencer Institute: The Association for Entrepreneurial Trainers & Coaches
Established in 1992

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You will be given everything you need to gain needed skills, earn your certification(s) and build a successful coaching or training career.

Imagine if you had the best resources, training techniques, expert experience, and all the practical fitness and/nutrition knowledge to build your ideal training business and career.

What if you had a trusted source of quality education, a proven business (and easy-to-follow) system, and real-life advice and lessons from successful instructors to help guide the development of your professional training career?

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Since NESTA/Spencer Institute was launched in 1992, it has been our mission to help you reach the highest level of success in all aspects of your training/coaching career. Our online courses are easy to follow and fun, yet properly challenging. Each has been developed with your success in mind.

NESTA & Spencer Institute courses are structured so you quickly learn and understand the training concepts, and put your new knowledge and skills to use as soon as possible. When you finish your course(s) of choice, you will be able to confidently help and guide your clients towards reaching their goals and dreams.

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The benefits of becoming a certified trainer/instructor/coach with NESTA & Spencer Institute can have a huge impact on your professional and personal life. Whether you are developing your ability to help others, or you’re on a quest for a sense of purpose, becoming certified and building your career with NESTA & Spencer Institute will enhance your life for the better.

Here’s why…

Helping Your Clients is Rewarding and Satisfying

An opportunity to make a difference and see first-hand the impact on other peoples’ lives and a chance to give back are satisfying personal rewards. As a NESTA/Spencer Institute certified trainer/coach, you will gain this immense satisfaction as you help your clients develop and achieve their fitness, nutrition, or athletic goals. Working with people who are eager to make drastic, life-enhancing changes will give you a real sense of purpose. It’s good to help others.

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Who do you want to become? A trainer or a coach?

How do you define the difference?
 
This is our perspective:
 
When you train someone, you are telling them what to do, how to do it, how often to do it, and what equipment/tools/software to use. This “advice” is based on science, research, evidence, history and observation from the trainer. The NESTA division focused more on this area of expertise.
 
When you coach someone, you are asking questions. You are asking for feedback. You are understanding motivational strategies. You are listening far more than you are speaking. You are determining how the client understands themselves, and how they move towards – or away – from what they want or don’t want. You are a sounding board.  The Spencer Institute division focused more on this area of expertise.
 
NOTE: There are other definitions of training and coaching that are also valid. This is just a quick outline. And, as you can tell, there are aspects of training and coaching that overlap. This is one reason why we emphasize that trainers need to learn coaching, and coaches must understand elements of training as well. The type of learning (certifications) is based on your goals and niche market focus.
 
So, the big question….. what does all this mean to you?
 
It’s important to know the difference, and it’s great to be able to have the skills of both. Trainers without excellent coaching skills fall short with communication. Coaches (health, wellness, lifestyle, nutrition) who don’t have training skills in fitness (as one example) can only offer coaching in a limited capacity.
 
Why not have an incredibly well-rounded set of skills?
 
Your clients will get better results, and you can generate more revenue by offering more serves and appealing to more people. Is it starting to make sense?

Training and coaching will Accelerate Your own Personal, Physical and Professional Development

Training and coaching often take place in fast-paced environments that accelerate growth and development. If you enjoy developing yourself and understand the value of ongoing learning, you’ll enjoy being a certified because you’re in an environment that encourages growth. Because your clients are on a fast track, your pace is naturally accelerated, because you learn from each other. It’s that simple.

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You will Benefit from Our Expanding Professional Network and Community

One of the greatest advantages of becoming certified with NESTA/Spencer Institute is the personal and professional relationships that you will make. Success today, especially as a trainer/coach, is largely dependent on the size and strength of your personal and professional network. The more people you get to know – and who get to know and like you – the better for your long-term financial success and professional development. As a NESTA /Spencer Institute graduate, you will have the tools and confidence to instantly expand your network and build your business.

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Your Training or Coaching Business Offers Unlimited Growth

This industry is set to be one of the fastest growing careers over the next 20 years. The health and fitness (and coaching) industry has grown a staggering 75% over the last decade. These numbers indicate a huge demand for trainers/coaches of all types. It’s not over-saturated. There is still a huge lack of qualified experts. You can now fill that need. We will assist you each step of the way.

Flexibility to Live and Work Where You Want

Because training and coaching can be facilitated over the telephone, or with the use of Skype, Zoom or FaceTime, actual geographical location is completely flexible. A training practice can be 100% portable and gives freedom in travel and work options. With your NESTA/Spencer Institute certification(s), you can work from the comfort of your home gym and office. If a traditional home office isn’t right for you, you will have the freedom to take your business on the road, and lead sessions and help clients reach their fitness and health goals from literally anywhere in the world. NESTA/Spencer Institute is the Association for Entrepreneurial Trainers & Coaches. So, we’re ready to help you each step of the way.

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Of course, you can also work at thousands of gyms, health clubs or fitness centers as well. NESTA is accepted globally.

If you can dream it, we’ll help you create it!

Quick and Easy Entry to the Profession

All courses are 100% online, clear, understandable, self-paced and suited to your schedule. Your training can take as little as 1 month or less, can be done from the comfort of your home, and at a pace that works with other aspects of your life.

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Endless Opportunities

Our students and graduates just like you use their new training skills to start their own full-time businesses, others work part-time, and many acquire training and certifications to enhance their results within their current profession. You can seek out alternative and lucrative, opportunities as a fitness/nutrition blogger, writer, YouTuber, podcast host or guest, author, online content provider and host, expert for authority websites, a frequent guest on radio shows, TV talk shows, news programs or in industry publications. Just decide, and we guide you each step of the way.

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Here’s What You Do Right Now:

  1. Review all of our programs and determine which ones are right for you. Each of our program pages describes how you will benefit and help others create the life of their dreams.
  2. Many of the certification course also have a free web class listed on the program page. They provide you will more detailed information about the certification that interests you. More web classes are being added now.
  3. Enroll online in the course(s) that interest you most and help you with your specific goals. If you are unclear which certification(s) is best for you, think about how you want to conduct your business, who you want to train and serve, and what makes you most happy. If you’d like help, you can contact us through chat, email or phone. Here’s the contact page. Once you enroll, you will gain immediate access and can begin your studies.

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During Your Studies and After You Earn Your Certification:

  1. You can call or email or chat with us for support on any topic.
  2. You will gain access to our Facebook support group.
  3. You will receive weekly email newsletters to help guide your career and improve your training and coaching skills.
  4. You will be given periodic discounts on additional certifications and resources to help you build your career.

Decide which certification(s) will get you to your goal now!

Click here to take the first step.

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How will I get clients?

This is actually much easier than you may be thinking right now. Here are some examples: Facebook is an excellent resource. An account is free and building a fan page takes less than 5 minutes. You can advertise to very specific groups of people who want and need your services. Facebook Live videos are fun and very effective to share your expertise and gain a following. Of course, you can also use Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and your other favorite social media platforms.  It’s 100% FREE.

Create and post a press release about your business launch. It’s simple and free to syndicate your press releases across the web. Creating a blog for your business is very fast and essentially free. We have resources for your marketing needs here. You can make training/coaching videos and post them to Youtube. When you offer this valuable free help, people get to know you and learn to like you. In return, they want to know more and they are directed back to your Facebook fan page or blog for details.

And, you can post your videos to all video sites for an even greater reach. Adding your business to Yelp is also a great idea.  It gets ranked high on Google which makes your job even easier. Make sure you also add your business profile to Google Local.  That’s another free and easy way to get clients. As for off-line client-getting strategies, you can do any of the following: attend local charity events, speak at community events, do a lunch-and-learn at a local business, volunteer for a local charity, distribute door hangers, post flyers, add a graphic/banner to your car, and the list goes on and on.

Once you get started, you’ll see how easy it is to do.  Now that you know what you need to do, you just need to implement and the clients will come in on a regular basis.

Once you are certified, we provide new weekly tips and strategies to build your career.

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