Health and Fitness Specialist Credentials

Become a Specialized Authority in a Targeted Niche

Everyone has individual needs, goals and personal interests when it comes to fitness and wellness. Narrowing down your subject matter expertise will allow you to captivate a larger audience of clients who are looking for your niche-specific services. Becoming the master of a certain subset of fitness proves to others that you’re highly knowledgeable and can give clients the results they want.

If you are a fitness professional who wants to take it to the next level, adding a specialty certification into your arsenal is one of the fastest and most effective ways to become the trusted go-to personal trainer or fitness instructor.

What You Will Learn

Craft Effective Program Designs

Learn various different program design concepts to help your clients with rehab, sports conditioning and general fitness. You’ll be provided with specific exercises and variations to help with injury prevention and pain-free movement.

Manage Pain and Injury

You’ll learn the proper techniques for managing muscular pain along with a comprehensive self-care strategy designed to help your clients eliminate stiffness and discomfort, increase range of motion and restore function to help them improve overall strength, posture and balance.

Proficiency in Anatomy

Expanding your knowledge of the body will help you advise your clients to peak physical fitness. You’ll learn how to evaluate diagnostic tests, understand a variety of treatments for injury and the best way to prevent them.

Key Benefits

Stay Ahead of the Curve to Become the Leading Professional

Adding a fitness specialization and keeping up with the trends will amplify your credibility, help you become the top professional in your space, and maintain a successful career.

Extensive Credential Options

AFPA offers a large selection of specialty credentials to help you grow your area of expertise and earning potential. Select one of our hyper-targeted certifications, including golf conditioning, running injuries specialist, back injury specialist, and knee injury specialist.

Distinguish Yourself from the Crowd

We offer specialized services that extend past your everyday fitness client. Set yourself apart from the other trainers with a unique set of skills to accelerate your clients' results with new drills, exercises and training techniques.

Not sure if coaching is the right path for you? Hear what our graduates have to say

I searched left and right for something that was accredited, affordable, and was really extensive. I found AFPA, which checked all those boxes and then some. I loved that they have been around for 25 years. It was great that the certification was flexible and I could still homeschool my kids while studying."

Amilia Brady, Holistic Nutritionist Certification

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What I loved most about getting certified with AFPA is that it really opened the opportunities for my long career, and it gave me direction."

Tyler Kalisiak, Strength and Conditioning Certification, Sports Nutrition Certification

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The certification program changed everything in my overall life. It changed how I ate, my health, and how I help other people. It also changed my career in the health space. I liked that the information presented had studies and actually showed you the research as it was teaching you things."

Lauren Rasky, Holistic Health Coach Certification

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Become a Specialized Authority in a Targeted Niche

What You Will Learn

Craft Effective Program Designs

Manage Pain and Injury

Proficiency in Anatomy

Key Benefits

Stay Ahead of the Curve to Become the Leading Professional

Extensive Credential Options

Distinguish Yourself from the Crowd

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In just six months or less, you can start working in the industry of your dreams with an AFPA certification. For questions or to get started, call us today at 800.494.7782.

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