Expand your career as an ISSA Certified Coach

Earn more. Specialize. Reach more clients.

Whether you are seeing clients part-time or full-time, with an ISSA Coaching Certification, you will stand out as a deeper expert in the area of fitness that you are most passionate about. At ISSA we offer career tracks such as Corrective Exercise, Bodybuilding, Group Fitness, as well as special population focus from youth fitness to senior fitness and everything in between. You can choose more than one specialization and reach even more people.

Top 4 Reasons to Become an ISSA Certified Coach

Make more money by adding credentials that lead to higher hourly rates or open you up for a more senior position
Specialize in an area of fitness that drives your career or passion. Chose to become a Bodybuilding Coach, Corrective Exercise Coach or Senior Coach or any of our other specialized tracks and take your career to a whole new level.
Gain the knowledge and expertise to work with special populations and help them find further success with their unique goals
As an ISSA Certified Personal Trainer you can add the ISSA Specialized Coach title to help market yourself to prospective clients so they know they are getting your deeper expertise

What is an ISSA Certified Coach?

An ISSA Certified Coach has a deeper level of expertise than a personal trainer. A Coach specializes in a defined area of fitness and has the training and education to train specific modalities or targeted populations, or both. For example, an ISSA Certified Senior Coach will have a deeper level of expertise focused on how to coach a senior client to reach their goals given specific limitations or concerns associated with their stage of life. This combination of personal trainer certification and specialization is a powerful step in a trainers career progression.

How the ISSA Coach Certification Works

We want to support you as you take your career wherever you want to go. As an ISSA Certified Coach, you open up a world of possibilities.

1

Become a Certified Personal Trainer

Study and become a Certified Personal Trainer by passing the ISSA Certified Personal Training Course as the core requirement.
2

Complete an ISSA Specialization Course

Chose, study and pass one of our ISSA Specialization Courses (from this list) as a second requirement

3

Receive your ISSA Coaching Certification

Once you have completed both certifications along with your CPR certification, you will receive the title of Certified Coach.

Available Specializations

In order to become an ISSA Certified Coach, the candidate must successfully receive their ISSA Personal Trainer and any ONE of the following specialization certifications. In addition, the candidate must have up-to-date CPR/First Aid Certification:

Certified Nutritionist Corrective Exercise Specialist Specialist in Group Fitness Bodybuilding Specialist Exercise Therapy Certification

Senior Fitness Certification Youth Fitness Certification Strength and Conditioning Certification Sports Nutrition Certification

What You'll Learn While Becoming an ISSA Certified Coach

To become an ISSA Certified Coach you will need to successfully complete the ISSA Personal Training Certification and any one of our Specialization Certifications or the Nutrition Certification. Through this journey you will gather the skills to help your clients on a whole new level.

The science and practice of personal training
Specialized modality (e.g., Group Fitness, Corrective Exercise, Transformation) or targeted population fitness programming and support.
Fitness programming

How to properly assess, train, and motivate the general population
Gain a deeper and broader breadth of skills and knowledge to lead clients to a more successful outcome.

Hear how having the Coach Certification has helped students like you

ISSA definitely proved themselves above and beyond. I definitely received more than I expected and absolutely excited to take more courses.

Anna Graves

Thank you once again to the staff at ISSA for giving me this opportunity to enroll into your program and making me feel welcome. I can't wait to take you guys on my next fitness journey in life!

Demetri Carter

After now having received my certification through ISSA, I feel confident that I'm ready to start my business.

Sarah Turnley

I say this as a current high school Teacher and Coach. They truly educate you on the various topics regarding human health and physiology and the way it responds to exercise and diet.

Skyler Henson

Having the backing of ISSA I feel confident that I am helping to change people's lives through fitness and I am very passionate about that! I am excited to meet new clients and help them start their fitness journeys.

Amy Manzanares

I've found ISSA's to be the most qualified, useful AND helpful certifications in the business.

Robert Condeluci

With the website, blogs and continuing education that ISSA offers I know I will continue to improve as a personal trainer.

Rose Connolly

My experience with ISSA was amazing. I was so impressed with the online self-study program and how it was organized. I was equally impressed with the staff support, knowledge and integrity!

Yvonne Roth