About the program
CEUs: 1.9 NASM, 13 AFAA , 1.9 ACE, 10 CIMSPA Endorsed CPD Points
Increase your client impact and revenue possibilities all in the same time slot with group personal training.
Create and deliver successful group personal training experiences that progress more clients to their fitness goals while increasing your client reach and revenue possibilities, all in the same time slot!
The NASM Group Personal Training Specialization (GPTS) takes the best of one-on-one personal training and group fitness so that you can positively impact more clients in less time. We’ll teach you the skills and methods needed for designing and delivering a successful group personal training experience, whether that’s just two clients or more than 10 in a single time slot!
The program includes:
✔ Immediate access to course materials.
✔ Group Personal Trainer Course Manual: Download the manual for your on the go learning and lifestyle. Whether on your mobile or desktop, this manual is your key course resource. Modules include an introduction to group personal training, applicable exercise science, exercise selection and technique, program design, coaching and cueing, and how to build your business.
✔ Video Demonstrations and Lectures: Watch and listen to further experience the course topics within each module and see how to lead a variety of group personal training sessions with emphasis on technique, cueing, coaching and program structure.
✔ Learning Activities: Take a knowledge break and show what you know with these interactive learning activities.
✔ Discussion Questions: Each module has topic-specific discussion questions where you can comment and interact with your peers.
✔ Module Quizzes: Use these end of module quizzes to see what you learned and discover areas you may need to review.
✔ Group Personal Training Programming Templates: 120 ready-to-use Group Personal Training Program Templates that include programs specific to a variety of equipment, formats and client goals.
✔ Specialization Exam: A final online exam with immediate results.
✔ CEUs: Upon successful completion you’ll earn enough credits to renew your NASM-CPT and most other industry certifications - 1.9 NASM, 13 AFAA, 1.9 ACE
✔ Certificate: Printed certificate, suitable for framing, will be mailed
Table of Contents
Section 1: Basics of Group Personal Training
Chapter 1: Introduction to Group Personal Training
Understand the different types of group training based on volume, identify uses of the OPT™ Model within group personal training, and describe instructor and client benefits.
Chapter 2: Basic and Applied Sciences
Define the components of the kinetic chain and learn to use strategies that maximize its functions in a group training setting.
Section 2: Program Design and Coaching
Chapter 3: Group Exercise Selection and Technique
Determine exercise selection using client group size, understand common mistakes that group instructors overlook, and compare exercises used in groups with minimal equipment to exercises with common training modalities.
Chapter 4: Designing Group Personal Training Programs
Identify best practices in setting up group training programs based on volume, learn to use assessment protocols, and create group programs.
Chapter 5: Coaching and Cueing
Learn to determine and implement coaching techniques for various group sizes, and discover communication strategies and methodologies to increase participation.
Section 3: Building Your Group Training Business
Chapter 6: Building Your Business
Determine marketing strategies to create and retain group training clientele, develop pricing packages, and choose appropriate target markets.
Final exam
After the completion of the course, you will take an online final exam from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you prefer to take tests, that consists of 100 questions. Each question will be multiple-choice. The exam is timed and cannot exceed 90 minutes. To pass, you need a score of 70% or higher. Don’t fret though, if you score below that, you have up to 3 attempts to pass.
This course is only available in English.