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Top Fitness Careers

From Personal Training, to Gym Owner, from Health Coach to Nutrition Coach, NASM can help you discover the fitness career of your dreams!

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A Career in Fitness
Starts with You

There’s never been a better time than now to follow your passion and find your calling in fitness. As a certified fitness professional, you’ll make a meaningful impact in your clients by helping them improve their wellness, set and reach new goals, and live healthier lives.

With a career in fitness, you’ll be your own boss, make your own schedule, and enjoy the flexibility that comes with working for yourself. For your clients, you’ll make a lasting impact in their lives, helping them with the structure they need in their fitness routines.

There are many paths you can choose as a fitness professional and many ways you can make an impact. But it all starts with you.

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FITNESS & TRAINING CAREERS

With so much change taking place around us, people are looking for consistency in their daily routines. With a career in fitness and personal training, you can help bring that balance back through hands-on leadership, detailed programming, and knowledgeable insights your clients can benefit from for years to come.

Certified Personal Trainer

There are many ways you can inspire through fitness. If you’re looking to set a solid foundation in fitness, you can start out as a Certified Personal Trainer and help clients set and reach their personal goals. You’ll help them see tailored results and productivity with one-on-one mentorship, personalized workout regimens, and insights into certain weaknesses that they can turn into strengths. Learn how to become a personal trainer here.

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Virtual Coach / Online Trainer

Looking to see where else fitness can take you? Take your training virtual and meet people where they are online. Virtual Training continues to become a go-to choice for people who want to workout in the comfort of their own home or wherever an on-the-go lifestyle takes them. As a Virtual Coaching Specialist, you can deliver optimal programming for your clients over Wi-Fi and help them stay motivated through a screen.

Gym Owner

Have a vision of bringing fitness to the masses? Want to open your own gym someday? With a career in fitness and the certifications you need to back it up, you’ll be well on your way to achieving your dreams of running a successful gym operation that thrives on your leadership and the sweat equity that everyone produces daily.

NUTRITION CAREERS

Nutrition Coach

Everyone knows that fitness begins in the kitchen. And for those who don’t know, it’s up to you to help them understand why.

But how do you know what’s right for you and your career goals? Being a Certified Nutrition Coach or a Sports Nutrition Coach is more than just writing a list of foods your clients should and shouldn’t eat. It takes a scientific approach to crafting detailed nutrition plans that can help clients achieve realistic goals and see reasonable results in their daily eating habits.

Nutrition and Fitness Coach

With a career in fitness, you can take advantage of opportunities to help more clients in more ways, including bringing nutrition and fitness together under one banner. As a Nutrition and Fitness Coach, you’ll be able to work more closely with your clients in every aspect of their daily routines. From plates in the gym to plates in the kitchen, you can inspire and lead people to see the benefits of blending healthy nutrition habits and effective fitness training.

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SPECIALTY CAREERS

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Athletic Coach

Whether it’s professional sports teams, college clubs, or local high school squads, a career in athletics presents a number of opportunities. From Strength and Conditioning to coaching today’s youth, specializing your fitness career with athletics-focused courses can deliver optimal training results to get players back on the field safely and effectively.

Corrective Exercise & Injury Prevention

With targeted specializations, you can also help prevent athletes and clients from being sidelined by injuries. Through hands-on career options like Massage Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Corrective Exercise, you can help not only prevent injuries but teach clients to read their bodies better, so they know their limits.

Group Fitness Instructor

If getting everyone under one roof is more your thing, you can choose to expand your role in fitness as a Group Fitness leader. There are many ways that you can shine a light on group fitness today. Bring some much-needed peace to your clients as a Yoga Instructor; help people kick things up a notch as a Cycling Instructor; work with seniors to help them live sustainable and healthy lives; or bring the focus back to fitness in our schools as a P.E. Teacher.

No matter which path you choose, you’ll get the best insight, resources, and guidance in the industry from NASM. Reach out today to see where a career in fitness can take you!

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Top Fitness Careers

A Career in Fitness
Starts with You

Which career path is right for you?