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CORRECTIVE EXERCISE SPECIALIST (NASM-CES)

Become an expert in human movement with NASM’s Corrective Exercise Specialization. Expand your expertise, better help your clients and start increasing your income today!

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Course Highlights

  • 1.9 NASM CEUs; 2.0 ACE
  • 4 Sections; 18 In-Depth Chapters
  • High-End Lecture, Demonstration, and Animation Videos
  • Downloadable Templates and Resources
  • 1 Year to Complete the Final Exam
  • Typically Completed in 10 Weeks
  • 100% Online; Access on All Devices
  • Specialization Certificate Upon Completion
  • High-End, Easy-to-Use Digital Portal
  • Exam Study Guide
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What You’ll Learn

Specializing in Corrective Exercise with NASM can stretch your earning potential along with your clients’ abilities to reduce the risk of injury—helping them move, feel and live better.

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By becoming a Corrective Exercise Specialist, you’ll take your fitness career and ability to help your clients to new levels. You’ll learn how to assess clients in a whole new way. It will help you better identify their movement compensations, where they are weak or strong, and hone your ability to use that knowledge to design effective and efficient programs.

You’ll take your ability to assess clients from generalized to specific, breaking assessments down into smaller, more in-depth pieces so you can identify different parts of the body in need of attention.

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From clients who spend all day at a desk to professional athletes and everyone in between, NASM’s Corrective Exercise Specialist program will help you make them move and feel better.

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Our CES program is powered by our world-renowned Corrective Exercise Continuum (CEx). With it, you’ll learn a simple yet highly effective four-step process to help your clients improve, and ultimately, correct frequent movement compensations both pre- and post-workout. You’ll also become an expert at outlining and creating an individualized strategy for each client to help them more effectively accomplish fitness goals, have a more efficient workout, and recover from workouts faster.

We’ve taken the latest and most prominent research in functional movement and corrective exercise and developed a system that helps you, the trainer, apply it practically with a wide array of clients.

Specializing in Corrective Exercise with NASM won’t just benefit your clients. It can stretch your earning potential too. And it’s not just for Personal Trainers either. This program is vital for every person in the fitness and wellness field – from massage therapists to coaches, chiropractors, and more. If the NASM OPT™ Model is the way you build an effective and efficient workout program, the Corrective Exercise Continuum (CEx) is the foundation upon which you build it.

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NASM-CPTs who have an NASM-CES earn 26% more than other personal trainers.1

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80% of professional basketball teams have an NASM-CES on their staff.

(Source: NBATA)

Why Become a Corrective Exercise Specialist?

  • Help clients move better in every facet of their life
  • Reach a wider group of potential clients and keep your current clients
  • Program more efficient and effective workouts
  • Help clients recover from workouts faster
  • Help clients meet their fitness and movement goals more efficiently
  • Expand your expertise while earning enough Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to recertify your Trainer Certification

Curriculum

Although it is not required, it is recommended that candidates have at least one of the following credentials:

  • NASM-CPT certification
  • Certified Massage Therapist
  • NCCA, NBFE or DETC Accredited Health/Fitness Certification
  • 4-Year College Degree
  • REPs Level 3 or higher (int'l)

Chapter 1: Rationale for Corrective Exercise
The student will understand the rationale and importance of delivering corrective exercise training to clients.

Chapter 2: Human Movement Science and Corrective Exercise
Discover the relationship between functional anatomy, the human movement system, and optimal movement and how this applies to the overall corrective exercise strategy.

Chapter 3: Inhibitory Techniques
Choose and implement the appropriate inhibitory strategies based on the current evidence gained from the assessments you’ve conducted.

Chapter 4: Lengthening Techniques
Learn the rationale and proper implementation of various flexibility modalities.

Chapter 5: Activation Techniques
Understand the guidelines, precautions, and contraindications for implementing isolated strengthening exercises.

Chapter 6: Integration Techniques
Understand the importance of integrated dynamic movement and how to progress these movements to reach your client’s performance goals.

Chapter 7: Client Intake and Assessment
Learn best practices for client intake and assessment to create the most targeted training program that addresses their specific needs.

Chapter 8: Static Assessments
Unlock the vital first step in the corrective exercise assessment process, which gives insight into the overall body alignment of the client.

Chapter 9: Movement Assessments
Movement assessments are the cornerstone of the assessment process. Work through the assessment flowchart, selecting the most relevant and targeted assessments.

Chapter 10: Mobility Assessments
Gain an understanding of how to further refine the assessment process with targeted mobility assessments.

Chapter 11: Corrective Strategies for the Foot and Ankle
Learn corrective exercise strategies for the foot and ankle.

Chapter 12: Corrective Strategies for the Knee.
Learn corrective exercise strategies for the knee

Chapter 13: Corrective Strategies for the Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Complex
Learn corrective exercise strategies for the LPHC.

Chapter 14: Corrective Strategies for the Thoracic Spine and Shoulder
Learn corrective exercise strategies for the thoracic spine and shoulder.

Chapter 15: Corrective Strategies for the Wrist and Elbow
Learn corrective exercise strategies for the wrist and elbow.

Chapter 16: Corrective Strategies for the Cervical Spine
Learn corrective exercise strategies for the cervical spine.

Chapter 17: Self-Care and Recovery
Intense training and life stress can place unfamiliar demands on the body. Learn recovery strategies to mitigate the effects of these stressors on the body so that your clients can perform at an optimal level.

Chapter 18: Real-World Application of Corrective Exercise Strategies
Learn how to implement corrective exercise in a variety of scenarios and environments for clients with varying goals.

The Premium Self-Study package includes 16 audio lectures, 6 webinars, a suggested study schedule, and exam study guide.

Audio lectures:

  1. What is Regional Interdependence?
  2. Why Implement Corrective Exercise? What Does the Science Say?
  3. The Science Behind Flexibility and Self-Myofascial Techniques
  4. Motor Control, Motor Learning and Motor Development
  5. Optimal Length-Tension Relationships and Optimal Force
  6. Force-Couple Relationships
  7. Muscular/Movement Subsystems
  8. The Science of Inhibition Techniques
  9. The Science of Lengthening Techniques
  10. The Science of Activation Techniques
  11. The Science of Integration Techniques
  12. The Rationale for Dynamic Assessments
  13. Rest
  14. Refuel
  15. Regenerate
  16. Avoid Skipping Phases: Using all four phases of the Corrective Exercise Continuum

Webinars:

  1. Corrective Strategies for the Shoulder and Thoracic Spine
  2. Corrective Strategies for the LPHC
  3. Corrective Strategies for the Foot and Ankle
  4. Corrective Strategies for the Knee
  5. Corrective Strategies for Elbow and Wrist
  6. Corrective Strategies for Cervical Spine

After the completion of the course, you will take an online final exam from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you prefer to take tests, that consists of 100 questions. Each question will be multiple-choice. The exam is timed and cannot exceed 90 minutes. To pass, you need a score of 70% or higher. Don’t fret though, if you score below that, you have up to 3 attempts to pass.

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FAQs

Corrective Exercise is a technique that addresses and fixes movement compensations. The goal is to improve the overall quality of movement during workouts and in everyday life. Read more about what Corrective Exercise is.

Once you pass your final exam, your NASM-CES specialization certificate never expires and does not require you to renew.

While a Personal Training Certification is suggested, it is not required to take the NASM-CES course. To participate, it is recommended you hold a CPT, accredited health or fitness certification, a 4-year college degree in a similar field, or be a current Certified Massage Therapist.
Unfortunately, no. The CES exam is not available for a la carte purchase.
Once enrolled, you will have access to the course study material for 5 years or the life of the product; whichever expires first. The course exam is available for 365 days from the date of enrollment.
The final exam is administered online within your student portal. It consists of 100 multiple-choice questions and 90 minutes for completion.
The NASM Corrective Exercise Continuum (CEx) is a 4-step process that helps fitness professionals identify movement dysfunctions and design a program to improve and, with time, correct a client's movement compensations. Learn More about CEx >>

Corrective Exercise is imperative in addressing movement imbalances that cause posture, stability, and mobility issues. It allows fitness professionals to identify problems and potential limitations in a client's movements. Read more about why Corrective Exercise is important.

A Corrective Exercise Specialist is an expert in human movement. They accurately analyze a client's movement patterns, identify overactive and underactive muscle groups and compensations. Read more about what a Corrective Exercise Specialist does and who should become an NASM-CES.

People who hold a Corrective Exercise Specialization can work at a wide range of fitness facilities including gyms, health clubs, sports performance centers, recovery centers, healthcare offices and fitness studios.

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"I'm very passionate about the Corrective Exercise Specialist because it's something that helped propel my career. In 2006 that's when I was exposed to the NASM corrective exercise specialization. I went through the course and it really transformed my business as a trainer. I became a lot busier because I knew I could work with a wider variety of clients. But on a personal level it helped me. I wasn't moving that great. I was in my early 30s, and I had some pain in my hip and also my shoulders from lifting heavy. And by following the protocols in the program I felt better. I became very passionate about corrective exercise, and I help teach other people how to get this as well. "

 

Mike Fantagrassi, Sr. Director Product Development, NASM

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"I know when I first started training with the CES, that's when my business picked up and I started getting a lot more clients and a lot of people that I wouldn't have normally seen. I wanted to train a lot of the athletic folks, and it's been amazing that even with elite athletes that I've trained, I do more of corrective exercise with them than probably almost anything else."

 

Rick Richey, Co-Founder at RēCOVER, owner of Independent Training Spot and NASM Master Instructor

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"I could probably say that I owe my career and where I'm at today to the Corrective Exercise Specialization . By implementing the assessments, programming, and solutions that I learned through the CES program, it allowed me to work with a wide variety of clients that I might not have been able to work with and help achieve their goals otherwise."

 

Tony Ambler-Wright, MS, NASM Master Instructor

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"As a Corrective Exercise Specialist, I help athletes and clients reduce movement dysfunctions. The NASM-CES helps me keep them active and doing what they love."

 

Kathy Zetter Berg, NASM Master Trainer, CPT, CES, PES, GFS

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Why Choose NASM

For more than a decade and a half, NASM’s Corrective Exercise Specialization has been the gold standard in teaching trainers how to help their clients prepare for their workouts and feel great. How long have we been preparing trainers in the field? Since the beginning. We even coined the term “Corrective Exercise”!

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Not all Corrective Exercise Specialist programs are created equal. Unlike other functional and human movement programs on the market, an NASM-CES doesn’t just help you assess clients’ movement patterns and identify dysfunctions. It enables you to create more effective workouts, as well.

We’re excited to bring you the latest version of our Corrective Exercise Specialization! The New NASM-CES is the most complete and up-to-date program on functional movement in the industry. We’ve brought together the best practitioners and researchers in the world of human movement, including experts in the fields of clinical application, physical therapy, exercise programming, recovery and performance, flexibility research, personal training, and more to help create the most comprehensive course in the market.

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This new version allows you to access your NASM-CES content wherever you are. Whether you’re at home on your tablet, at the gym on your phone, or a desk in front of your laptop, you can see everything the course has to offer. Start on one device and pick up where you left off on another. Study whenever and wherever you want with no hassle at all.

That’s not all though, we’ve also added the latest research and insight from the best experts in the industry and included new modules on Self-Care and Recovery, how to apply CES in multiple environments, communication and coaching strategies and more. Every aspect of the new NASM Corrective Exercise Specialization was created with you and your career in mind.

 

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  • 16 Audio Lectures

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  • CEU Value 1.9

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  • 16 Audio Lectures Each lecture varies in length from 15-25 minutes.

  • 6 Webinars Webinars are approximately 30 minutes in length and give students a step-by-step follow along process of how to implement the 4-step corrective process from assessment and program design to the exercise technique required to perform the workout program.

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