As one of the most trusted sources of fitness training certifications and credentials in the world, NASM is a distinguished name that will stand out to employers. When you choose NASM for your Corrective Exercise Specialization, you’ll get access to world-class fitness experts, your top choice of gyms to work for, and much more:

• Peer-Reviewed Content from the Brightest Minds in the Industry State-of-the-Art Digital Learning Platform
• • Programs Designed to Meet Multiple Learning Styles
• 35+ Years Of Experience Training Fitness Professionals
• 1.5M+ Fitness Professionals Trained
• 100+ Countries with NASM Fitness and Coach Professionals
• 12K+ Health Club Partnerships

Over the course of our lives, we develop movement imbalances and compensations that lead to unhealthy movement patterns. Corrective Exercise is a series of assessment and movement techniques that address these unhealthy patterns and help improve movement quality, and therefore overall quality of life, more effective workouts, and improved function in everyday life.

As a Corrective Exercise Specialist, you’ll use your knowledge and skills to assess your client’s posture, joint mobility, and movement quality. You’ll correct your client’s muscle imbalances and faulty movement patterns to help them gain the necessary flexibility and strength to reduce injury risk and maximize exercise performance.

Fitness professionals who should consider becoming an NASM CES include:

• Personal trainers who want to help their clients move better and increase resistance to injury
• Physical therapists who want to help improve their patients’ progress
• Chiropractors who want to help their clients achieve better results and recovery
• Fitness coaches who want to help their clients enhance their recovery and become more resistant to injury
• Massage therapists who want to learn more ways to suggest self-care recovery programming
• Strength and conditioning coaches who want to help athletes increase performance and durability with targeted warm-up protocols, flexibility, and strength work that improve movement quality

When you achieve your Corrective Exercise Specialization, you’ll be eligible to work at a wide range of gyms, health clubs, sports performance centers, recovery centers, health care offices, fitness studios, and more.

It’s not required, but we recommend having at least one of these credentials before you pursue the Corrective Exercise Specialization:

• NASM CPT certification (learn more about how to become a Certified Personal Trainer)
• Certified Massage Therapist
• NCCA, NBFE or DETC Accredited Health/Fitness Certification, or a 4-year college degree in a similar field
• REPs Level 3 or higher for international trainers

NASM CES is approved for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the following organizations:

NASM: 1.9 CEUs

ACE: 2.0 CECs

NSCA CEU: 2.0 CECs

CIMPSA: 10 CIMPSA Endorsed CPD Points

EREPS: 10 Learning Hours

This program will provide you with a total of 1.9 CEUs. In order to complete the required 2.0 CEUs for renewal, you must apply your hands on CPR/AED card for the additional 0.1 CEU.

You will have 1 year from the day of registration to take your final exam.

The Corrective Exercise Specialization exam is taken online with a proctor inside your student portal. This exam features:

• 100 multiple-choice questions
• 90 minutes to complete
• Open-book format
• 70% required to pass
• 3 test attempts included

Don’t worry! You’ll have 3 attempts to pass the final exam, and you can purchase additional retests by calling Member Services at

No. Once you pass the final exam, your Corrective Exercise Specialization with NASM will never expire.