Injury Prevention Bundle

What You'll Learn

With the Injury Prevention Bundle, you’ll combine three of the most powerful courses in personal training with the versatility of an all-new course—all for one low price.

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.

Build upon everything you learn in the NASM-CPT program and take it to the next level with NASM’s Corrective Exercise Specialization Self-Study program. Help clients prevent injuries and how to refine and advance your skills by identifying little issues before they become big issues for your clients. Then use that information to craft specific and individualized workout strategies and routines for any client to help them move better and avoid injuries.

Finally, tie it all together with our all-new 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 Corrective Exercise Continuum (CEx) to create an individualized fitness strategy for each client. Expand your knowledge, stretch your earning potential, and better help your clients!

Injury Prevention

Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)

Experience the most trusted personal training certification in the world - all backed by the NASM OPT™ Model.

Corrective Exercise Specialization (CES)

Backed by the science of our Corrective Exercise Continuum, the NASM-CES course equips you with the knowledge to prevent injury effectively.

Stretching and Flexibility Coach (SFC)

Learn the nuances of mobility and flexibility. Only with NASM’s stretching certification can you truly explore all facets of injury prevention.

What's Included?

Certified Personal Trainer - Guided Study (NASM-CPT)

Certified Personal Trainer - Guided Study (NASM-CPT)

The NASM-CPT Guided Study program is designed with you in mind. Our most popular CPT program includes the option to participate in a flexible, 10-week course led by an NASM fitness expert instructor as well as a Job Guarantee, hardcopy textbook, exam retest, and more!

Corrective Exercise Specialization (NASM-CES)

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Corrective Exercise Specialization - Self-Study (NASM-CES)

As a Corrective Exercise Specialist, you'll identify a client's minor movement issues before they become major problems. You'll learn how to create workout programs that help reduce the risk of lower back pain, knee issues, muscle soreness, and more in every kind of client. This course is entirely online and includes high-quality videos, downloadable resources, plus a high-end, easy-to-use digital course portal.

Stretching and Flexibility Coach (NASM-SFC)

Stretching And Flexibility Coach (NASM-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,
Stretching & Corrective Exercise?

Increase your earning potential by offering a unique, specialized skillset
Reach a wider group of potential clients
Start your fitness career off right with the knowledge to fully address your clients' needs

Program more efficient and effective workouts
Create unique and tailored fitness programs for each client
Earn enough Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to recertify your Trainer Certification

FAQs

Do I have to renew these certifications?

NASM’s Personal Trainer Certification (NASM-CPT) is an NCCA accredited certification, meaning you must recertify every two years by earning Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

The Corrective Exercise Specialization (NASM-CES) and Stretching and Flexibility Coach (NASM-SFC) are specializations, not certifications, which means they do not need to be renewed. Once you pass your final exam, your NASM-CES and NASM-SFC specialization certificates 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 automatically earn 1.9 CEUs upon passing of your Corrective Exercise Specialization final exam. These are all the CEUs needed to recertify, as the remaining 0.1 CEUs are 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-CES and NASM-SFC final exams. Extensions are available for each course for an additional fee.

Although the exams expire, you will maintain access to the NASM-CPT content for 1 year upon purchase and access to the NASM-CES and NASM-SFC content for 5 years or the life of the product; whichever expires first. This allows you to go back and reference the rich course content during your career.

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.

What is the Corrective Exercise Continuum (CEx)?

The Corrective Exercise Continuum is the foundation for the entire Corrective Exercise Specialization. It is a 4-step process for assessing and correcting human movement for clients. The 4 steps are talked about more in depth in our guide to the CEx.

How are the final exams administered?

NASM’s Personal Trainer Certification (NASM-CPT) is an NCCA accredited certification, meaning you must pass a live proctored exam, which can be administered online or in-person. On the contrary, the Corrective Exercise Specialization (NASM-CES) and Stretching and Flexibility Coach (NASM-SFC) are specializations, not accredited certifications. The Corrective Exercise and Stretching and Flexibility 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 final exams?

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. For the NASM-CES and NASM-SFC courses, you will have 3 attempts to pass the final exam.

Free Mini Course:
The Scientific Rationale of Stretching

Learn why stretching is a fundamental basis for the Corrective Exercise Specialization in this 4-part mini course, including a downloadable PDF, a podcast, and practical application videos.

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WHY CHOOSE NASM?

With over three decades of experience, the National Academy of Sports Medicine has provided the fitness industry with the certifications, specializations, and overall knowledge they need to build successful careers by helping clients reach their health and fitness goals.

Since the beginning, our CPT program has set the standard for the industry thanks to our proprietary Optimum Performance Training™ (OPT™) model, a system based on scientific, evidence-based research.

NASM has been there since the start of Corrective Exercise. In fact, we coined the term. Over the last 15 years, we've continued to perfect our program to provide the most in-depth knowledge of functional and human movement.

The best part, you can complete your studying from the comfort of your own home with our fully digital platform.

NASM-CPTs who have an NASM-CES earn 26% more than other personal trainers.(Source: 2018 Annual NASM-CPT survey)

80% of professional basketball teams have an NASM-CES on their staff. (Source: NBATA)

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 Fantagrassi

Sr. Director Product Development, NASM

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Injury Prevention Bundle

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