Fitness Nutrition Certification

Clients often need a fusion of both nutrition and exercise programming in order to achieve the results they desire. Whether your client wants to gain muscle, lose fat, or live healthily, their limiting factor usually lies beyond their exercise training program. Poor nutrition is what holds clients back. Good nutrition will feed muscle and shed fat. It's what will improve nearly every measurable health marker. Good nutrition is what will get your clients the bodies they never thought they could have.

ISSA's Fitness Nutrition Certification course blends nutritional science and practice in order to help you successfully guide them toward a better body... both inside and out. Dr. John Berardi helps to dispel common myths and fallacies associated with nutrition, as well as build a solid foundation in nutritional science as you discover how food interacts with your cells; how it becomes energy; and how your body balances out the food you eat with the work it does.

Then we'll take this knowledge eight steps further in our new Fitness Nutrition Certification by covering the art of "real world" nutritional coaching and teach you how to prepare for clients, how to interact with different personalities, selecting the right assessments and questionnaires, and how to keep clients progressing from day one until they reach their goals.

By mastering both the basic nutritional science (Section I) and the applied art of fitness nutrition (Section II), you will have the keys to emerge as the dominant fitness professional in your area—one who has both the knowledge to back up your recommendations as well as a fool-proof system to deliver outstanding, reproducible results from your fitness nutrition programs.

Included in the Fitness Nutrition Certification course

In addition to the fundamentals of nutritional science you'll find in the Specialist in Fitness Nutrition Certification textbook (478 pages), ISSA has included a comprehensive 8-step system for interacting with clients in your nutritional practice that includes how to prepare, collect preliminary information, evaluate and explain, offer nutrition suggestions, offer supplement suggestions, set goals and monitor outcomes, make adjustments, and provide continuing ongoing support.

You'll also find more than 20 pages of questionnaires and assessment tools to make sure you put each individual client on the right path to health and wellness. The easy-to-follow nutrition course book is complemented by a curriculum guide with detailed learning objectives to help you get the most out of your studies.

20 Years of Educating and Certifying Personal Trainers

Since 1988, the ISSA has certified and provided continuing fitness education to over 130,000 people just like you who want to help others feel better, look better and improve the quality of their lives.

We are unconditionally committed to providing expanded access to the highest quality personal training certification and continuing fitness education programs available, advancing our industry as a whole, and developing greater access to career opportunities for those who share our vision of creating a stronger, healthier World.

Try our Career Calculator to calculate how much extra money you could earn this year by turning your passion for fitness into profit as a personal trainer with just a few clients a week.

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