Become a Certified Trainer. Evolve Your Career.
Start your new career as a fitness professional with a globally recognized Personal Trainer Certification
• Join over 1,000,000 professional trainers
• Finish in as little as 3 months
• No classrooms, no schedules - learn at your own pace
• Industry-low pricing for everyone
Start your new career as a fitness professional with a globally recognized Personal Trainer Certification
• Join over 1,000,000 professional trainers
• Finish in as little as 3 months
• No classrooms, no schedules - learn at your own pace
• Industry-low pricing for everyone
How It Works
Certified Personal Trainer
Unlock the Power of Personal Training: Get Your Personal Trainer Certification Now.
Personal Training Certification
CPT Bootcamp
NCCPT NCCA- Accredited CPT Exam
Purpose-Driven Training Model
Online Textbook, Practice Quizzes, & Forums
FREE – Study Expansion Pack
Get certified and change lives — In 3 easy steps:
Master the Art of CPT: 3 steps to Personal Training Certification.
Complete your Personal Training Certification (CPT)
Enroll now and get instant access to a host of tools and resources designed to ensure your maximum success!
Land your first CPT job (Guaranteed!)
100% job guarantee for U.S.-based students that meet basic requirements.
Impact lives
Confidently build effective, personalized training plans — knowing exactly how to help your clients hit their fitness and body goals.
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Enhance Your Learning
Take your certification to the next level with our exclusive course bundles. Along with the core Certified Personal Trainer offering, these bundles include specialized tracks designed to deepen your expertise, help you stand out to potential employers, and boost your career. Upgrade your learning experience and gain the skills that make you a more competitive and versatile fitness professional.
BEST VALUE
What is Fast Track?
A great study tool to accompany your purchase of the Certified Personal Trainer course. Learn exactly what you need to complete the course and become a Certified Personal Trainer in record time!
4-week accelerated guided study
FREE E-Book: The Personal Trainer Guide
To purchase Fast Track, click Add in the Cart Checkout!
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CPT + GLP-1: Expertise for the
New Era of Wellness
Becoming a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) is more essential than ever as the wellness industry evolves—and ISSA is leading the way. Join ISSA Master Trainer Jenny Liebl and obesity medicine physician Dr. Spencer Nadolsky as they discuss how today’s CPTs can confidently coach clients navigating weight loss with GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy. Whether you're just starting your CPT journey or ready to level up with GLP-1 expertise, this session will show you how to stand out in the new era of wellness.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how ISSA’s personal trainer certification prepares fitness professionals to safely and effectively guide client transformation.
Learn the fundamentals of GLP-1 medications and how they’re impacting training environments.
Identify the risks of muscle loss, motivation dips, and emotional shifts in clients using GLP-1s—and how CPTs can address them within scope.
What's Included
ISSA's Certified Personal Trainer program covers:
How to motivate anyone to make their fitness goals a reality
In-depth knowledge of the body's muscle and skeletal structure
How to assess and build custom training programs
How to help clients get stronger with less pain or injury
How to pinpoint what exercise is most effective for each movement
Details of how diet and exercise work together to transform people's lives
The deeper answers to help go beyond "workout more" and "eat better"
Comprehensive Online Textbook
Foundations and Applications for a Certified Personal Trainer is new and improved, updated with new exercise descriptions, chapter quizzes and the latest information on nutrition, motivation and behavior change, and exercise science. It has everything you need to successfully earn your Personal Trainer Certification. The 715-page book even features a chapter on business and marketing to help you start and grow a profitable training business.
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Including all these tools to help you pass!
Reviews
Over 10,000 Gym Partners Choose ISSA
Customer Reviews
Yes. You can change your life with ISSA.
This isn’t just a certification — it’s a path to victory. A way to try something new. To break out of your rut. To try a new career and to help people. It’s a way to improve lives through fitness, nutrition and mental toughness.
It’s why we have 10,000+ Gym Partners and 14,000+ Trustpilot reviews. And it’s why over a million trainers and fitness lovers from 174 countries chose ISSA.
This is not a one-and-done kind of certification. Once you take a program with us, you are part of a growing community of fitness professionals.
How you Can Use It
Your Certification Creates Opportunities
Stay ahead of the competition! Becoming a Certified Personal Trainer allows you to make more money.
Become a Full-Time Trainer
If you want a job as a personal trainer - you’ve got one. Our certification is recognized by over 10,000+ national gyms including major national gym chains.Get A Money-Making Side Hustle
Trainers routinely make $100 an hour or more in small group personal training. Personal training is the ultimate side hustle where you get to choose when and where you coach.Become An Influencer
Make money by posting your workouts and fitness advice. With your ISSA certification, you’ll join some of the world’s top influencers with the credentials people trust.Own Your Own Gym
Network with ISSA professionals to learn how to operate your own gym or work with ISSA’s partners including F45, Camp Gladiator, and more to own a franchise.
Risk FREE!
Job Placement Guaranteed or
You'll Get Your Money Back.
We guarantee you will be a working personal trainer within 6 months of certification. We will refund your course fee in full if you do not receive a job within 6 months of certification.
Step One
Pass your ISSA Personal Trainer Exam and your NCCPT Accredited Proctored Exam
Step Two
Interview with at least 3 gyms within 6 months of completing your certification course (requirements)
Step Three
Meet Basic Requirements of the gyms (background check, drug test, available to work in the U.S.)
The NCCPT exam is included with the purchase of some ISSA CPT course packages. There is an administrative fee to sit for the exam.
*Only available in the continental U.S. Terms and conditions apply.
Purchase of ISSA training materials is not an eligibility requirement to take the accredited exam nor does it imply a passing score.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is required to get my personal training certificate?
You must meet the following:
Submission of all course quizzes
A score of 70% for CPT, a score of 75% or better on all sections of the final examination
Proof of current Adult CPR/AED certificate
Is there any interest on payment plans?
No! There is 0% interest on all ISSA courses.
Does ISSA offer the ability to take quizzes and exams online?
Yes, Online testing, for both quizzes and final exams, is the preferred testing method. Online testing saves you the hassle of organizing and photocopying your answer sheets, saves you from a trip to the post office, saves you postage for registered mail, and keeps track of your submissions in your Member Account. What's more, online testing produces a much faster turn-around time for grading!
Can I get a printed copy of the textbook?
In addition to the free online version of the course textbooks, you can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses. Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
Does ISSA offer NCCA accredited exams?
Yes, ISSA offers the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) nationally accredited personal trainer certification through its subsidiary, The National Council for Certified Personal Trainers (NCCPT). Click to learn more about the NCCA and NCCPT.
NCCPT exams are included in your cart with some course bundles.
To purchase the accredited exam separately, click here.
Purchase of ISSA training materials is not an eligibility requirement to take an accredited exam nor does it imply a passing score.
