Exercise Recovery Bundle

What You'll Learn

Looking for a whole new way to start or expand your career in fitness? With the Exercise Recovery Bundle, you’ll tap into a growing need for mobility, injury prevention, nutrition, and more—all in one comprehensive program.

Start your journey with NASM’s Certified Personal Trainer (NASM-CPT) Guided Study course. This foundational certification provides trainers with everything they need to know to begin accurately assessing and building customized workouts for every client, every time thanks to the world-renowned NASM OPT™ Model.

Along with your Guided Study course, you'll also get the full power of the NASM EDGE app for a year. With it, you can study for the exam, manage clients, and train them entirely online.

Next, help clients maximize their fitness and health statuses through our NASM Certified Nutrition Coach (NASM-CNC). Providing you with what you need to bring food and fitness together, this science-backed program is a study in more than just what you put on your plate; it sees nutrition from all angles. You’ll learn how to create individualized meal plans for your clients while discovering what works best to help them meet their health goals.

Finally, tie it all together with our NASM Stretching and Flexibility Coach course (NASM-SFC). This comprehensive offering dedicated to corrective exercise teaches you to master the techniques needed to help clients stretch better. From assessing their needs to providing stretching plans to enhance their mobility and training safety, you’ll help clients live a more fluid and flexible life.

When complete, you'll be able to harness the combined power of NASM's OPT™ Model and the latest in flexibility training to create the most comprehensive fitness programs for your clients!

What's Included?

Certified Personal Trainer - Guided Study (CPT)

The NASM-CPT Guided Study program is designed with you in mind. Our most popular CPT program includes the option to take this comprehensive course led by unlimited access to NASM fitness expert instructors as well as a Job Guarantee, high-end videos, an exercise demonstration library, bonus courses, hardcopy textbook, an exam retest, and more!

Certified Nutrition Coach

Certified Nutrition Coach (CNC)

As an NASM-CNC, you'll learn the facts about hot topics in nutrition like proteins, carbs, macronutrients, and everything you need to know about the most popular diets. Plus, you’ll learn the reasons behind dietary patterns and the behavioral change strategies to optimize them. This course is delivered in our immersive online platform and includes an entirely digital textbook, high-quality videos, infographics, and more.

Stretching and Flexibility Coach (SFC)

Stretching And Flexibility Coach (SFC)

From foam rolling to band workouts, stretching is one of the hottest trends in fitness industry. With NASM’s Stretching and Flexibility Coach course, you’ll master the techniques and strategies needed to start helping clients with assisted stretching and more, all while increasing your client base.

Why Combine Personal Training,
Nutrition & Stretching?

Increase your earning potential by offering a more holistic fitness and health skillset
Reach a wider group of potential clients
Start your fitness career off right with the knowledge to fully address your clients' fitness and nutritional needs

Program more efficient and effective workouts
See results faster by creating a more personalized fitness plan for your clients
Earn enough Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to recertify your Trainer Certification

FAQs

Do I have to renew these certifications?

NASM’s Certified Personal Trainer (NASM-CPT) is an NCCA accredited certification, meaning you must recertify every two years by earning Continuing Education Units (CEUs). To recertify for the NASM Certified Nutrition Coach (NASM-CNC), you must complete the CNC Renewal Exam.

The NASM Stretching and Flexibility Coach (NASM-SFC) is a specialization, not a certification, meaning it does not need to be renewed. Once you pass your final exam, your NASM-SFC specialization certificate never expires.

What are Continuing Education Units (CEUs)?

In order to recertify, NASM-CPTs are required to earn 2.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) every two years. As part of this bundle, you will earn 1.9 CEUs upon passing of your Certified Nutrition Coach final exam. The remaining 0.1 CEUs will be fulfilled by maintaining your current CPR and AED certifications.

How long will I have to complete the courses?

You have 6 months to complete the NASM-CPT final exam and 1 year to complete your NASM-CNC and NASM-SFC final exam. Extensions are available for each course for an additional fee.

What is the Optimum Performance Training® Model?

The OPT™ Model is our 5-phase training model that starts with Stabilization and ends with Power. The NASM-CPT program utilizes the Optimum Performance framework to ensure that all NASM-CPTs are well-versed in our training methods. Read here to learn more about the OPT™ Model.

How are the final exams administered?

NASM’s Certified Personal Trainer (NASM-CPT) is an NCCA accredited certification, meaning you must pass a live proctored exam, which can be administered online or in-person. The NASM Certified Nutrition Coach (NASM-CNC) and NASM Stretching and Flexibility Coach (NASM-SFC) final exams are administered online and can be taken from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you prefer to take tests.

What if I do not pass the NASM-CPT final exam?

Don't fret! A free retest is included as part of the NASM-CPT Guided Study program. For more details, please refer to your Candidate Handbook.

Free Mini Course:
The Scientific Rationale Of Stretching

Learn why stretching is fundamental in this 4-part mini course, including a downloadable PDF, a podcast, and practical application videos.

WHY CHOOSE NASM?

For over 30 years, NASM has been providing fitness professionals with the instruction and knowledge they need to succeed and help their clients reach their physical and dietary goals. That experience has made our Personal Trainer Certification the gold standard in the industry and our Nutrition Certification the fastest growing in the market. With over 500,000 enrollments and counting over three decades, we know how to develop long-lasting fitness professionals.

Our personal trainer, nutrition and stretching and flexibility programs are the most up-to-date programs in the fitness industry. Each is evidence-based and backed by the most thorough and comprehensive research from the most trusted experts in their fields.

We understand you lead a busy life. That’s why our digital learning approach allows you to study wherever and whenever you want. Our courses offer dynamic and interactive content that helps provide a better understanding of key principles and provides better retention of the information covered in the material.

Trainer Testimonials

"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

"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

"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 Fantigrassi

Sr. Director Product Development, NASM

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Exercise Recovery Bundle

Exercise Recovery Bundle