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You may be passionate about fitness and desire to help people live the fitness lifestyle, but in order to help, you are going to need to make a living as a personal trainer. This course educates and trains you to be a successful personal trainer earning $35 - $175 an hour or more! This course leads you to the prestigious IFPA Certification which in turn leads you to a successful career in fitness.
 
Reach a higher level of athleticism. Improve your total athleticism, enhance your performance, and reduce injuries with this whole-body, sport-applied system that will spur your development potential for specific movement patterns you commonly use in your sport.
 
Advanced Personal Fitness Trainer Certification
Personal Trainer are you going to settle for $35, 45, 55 or $65 an hour? Why? When the IFPA Advanced Personal Trainer course can help you earn so much more!
 
Your clients know less about nutrition than they do about exercise, it is your duty to educate them. Nutrition is arguably 80% of the battle and you deserve to charge fees comparable to your personal trainer fees in order to help them achieve their goals. The IFPA Sports Nutrition Certification increases your value and increases your income.

 

Master Personal Fitness Trainer Certification
Do you ever wonder why some personal trainers earn $35 an hour while others make $175 an hour and others make much, much more. It all stems from knowledge. Knowledge is power! If you want to be the “best of the best” and earn $175 an hour and more, you need the IFPA Master Personal Fitness Trainer, the pinnacle of the fitness industry.
 
Experienced Personal Trainers already know nutrition is 80% of the battle. 99.9% of your clients have, as their #1 goal, to lose weight (fat). The IFPA Weight Management Instructor Certification will teach you everything you need to help them achieve their goals and maximize their success. This course teaches the good, the bad and the ugly in the diets on the market today, supplementation and with the Trainers Edge software package you will have all the tools you need to set up healthy, nutritious, “get the job done” eating plans. Your clients make better, faster gains and you make more money consulting them to maximize their success.
 
For many personal trainers, working with athletes is extremely rewarding. Working with the finest tuned bodies in the world, driving ever closer to perfection can be a peak experience for a fitness professional. The financial rewards can be incredible when working with the elite professionals of the sports world. Imagine fame, glory and riches working with your favorite sports stars!
Golf is the number ONE participatory sport in the USA. There are more affluent people participating in golf than any other sport. Personal Trainers have the potential for unlimited income when they gain the expertise only the IFPA Golf Conditioning Specialist Certification can provide.
Tennis is the number TWO participatory sport in the USA. After golf, there are more affluent people participating in tennis than any other sport. Tennis players are willing to do anything and pay anything to improve their game. Personal Trainers have the potential for unlimited income when they gain the expertise only the IFPA Tennis Conditioning Specialist Certification can provide.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves America’s favorite pastime, then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Baseball Conditioning Specialist Certification to increase your income.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves football, then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Football Conditioning Specialist to increase your income.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves basketball, then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Basketball Conditioning Specialist to increase your income. Who knows, you might get a chance to help Michael Jordan on his next comeback!
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves hockey then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Hockey Conditioning Specialist to increase your income.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves running, then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Running Conditioning Specialist to increase your income as a world class running conditioning coach.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves martial arts, then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Martial Arts Conditioning Specialist to increase your income.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves volleyball then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Volleyball Conditioning Specialist to increase your income.
If you are a Personal Trainer who loves soccer then do what you love. Make money from your passion. Use the expertise contained only in the IFPA Soccer Conditioning Specialist to increase your income.
If you are a passionate participant in Group Fitness (Group Exercise), it's time to graduate to the “head of the class.” Earn your IFPA Group Fitness Certification and start earning while you're sweating. Personal Trainers, Group Fitness is not just about aerobics anymore. You can teach strength-training in-group formats and dramatically increase your earnings potential. Be smart! Expand your repertoire.

 

The nation’s children are in horrible shape! They NEED your help. This is a crisis that only a well-trained, dedicated fitness professional educated in the needs of children can solve. Become part of the solution and increase your income dramatically working with this special group.
 
Though the microbiology of men and women are nearly identical, women have substantially different needs than men. If you want to make money training women you will need to learn the differences. This course will give you the answers to create truly effective women’s programming resulting in a highly profitable personal training business.
To truly master the art and science of personal training all Personal Trainers must have this certification. Planning is not only the first step in any endeavor, it is the most important step. This course will give you the best system for planning available today. Utilizing this system will make you far more efficient and far more effective. Efficiency and effectiveness translate into far greater profits to your personal training business.
 
This is becoming a highly lucrative market for personal trainers. Most physical therapy programs do not bring your client back to 100%. But you can, using the techniques you will learn in this course. Injuries happen, in and out of the gym or playing field. Now you can use the knowledge contained in this course to help and of course profit from life’s inevitable injuries.
 
Successful personal trainers are thinking “growth!” If you are going to grow, you are going to need business and management skills. This course teaches you everything you need to know in order to operate your own (or corporately owned) fitness facility, effectively and profitably. Your income is limited when you have to do all the work. This course gives you unlimited income potential by teaching how to get others to work for you.
 
Tai Chi is an ancient form of exercise for mind, body and spirit. The health and longevity benefit from Tai Chi are legendary. This course teaches both personal trainers and group fitness instructors everything they need to know to lead Tai Chi exercise safely and effectively. Not only is this course an excellent way to expand your repertoire of fitness knowledge, but it will also increase your success and value (and of course – profit margin).
You want to be at the “top-of-your-game,” and the IFPA Certified Flexibility Coach gives you tools to set you apart. Many, many clients need to improve their range-of-motion (ROM). Insufficient ROM is a major course of back pain (guess how many of your clients experience back pain). Initially, many clients need more help with increasing ROM than they do with increasing strength. Plus, recent research by Dr. Wayne Westcott proves that combining strengthening exercises with stretching exercises dramatically increases fat loss (by approximately 33%). What will your clients pay you to increase fat loss by 33%. Increase your value to your clients and increase your profits.
 
Senior Fitness Instructor Certification
The Functional Senior Fitness Trainer Certification contains all the guidelines and knowledge necessary to train seniors in primary care nursing homes. This class of clients generally have difficulty with daily motor functions and therefore require assistance with functions such as standing, sitting, eating, dressing, etc. CNAs, Personal Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors working with this special population will find this course imperative.

The Senior Fitness Specialist Certification contains all the guidelines and knowledge necessary to train seniors who are generally living independently. They can make it to the fitness center under their own power and have few if any major medical conditions.