As one of the most trusted sources of fitness training certifications in the world, NASM is a distinguished name that will stand out to fitness employers. When you choose NASM for your fitness career education, 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+ Gym & Health Club Partnerships

For your Certified Personal Trainer credential, you must have a high school degree or GED. You’re also required to have a current CPR and AED certification before you take the Certified Personal Trainer exam. For your convenience, NASM offers an online CPR/AED Certification.

You’ll have 180 days to complete the Certified Personal Trainer program, which can be completed in as few as 4 weeks.

For the rest of the programs, you’ll have 365 days to complete them.

The final exams are all taken online in your student portal.

For the Certified Personal Trainer program, you have the choice between two exams—a non-proctored Certificate exam, and a proctored NCCA-Accredited Certification exam. Here are some of the major differences between the two:

• The non-proctored exam has 100 questions; the proctored exam has 120 questions.
• You have 3 hours to complete the non-proctored exam; you have 2 hours to complete the proctored exam.
• The non-proctored exam is open-book; the proctored exam is not.
• The non-proctored exam confers a Certificate as a Personal Trainer; the proctored exam confers an NCCA-Accredited Certification as a Personal Trainer.

The choice of exam is up to you and in most cases simply depends on what your employer requires.

The final exams for the Corrective Exercise Specialization and Nutrition Coach Certification programs are taken online and features:

• 100 multiple-choice questions
• 90 minutes to complete
• Open-book format
• 70% required to pass
• 3 attempts for each exam

For the Certified Personal Trainer program, your retest options are as follows:

The online proctored International exam includes 3 attempts to pass (each attempt has an exam fee). After that, you can purchase additional retests from INFC Member Services.

The proctored, NCCA-accredited exam includes 1 attempts to pass. After that, you can purchase additional retests from INFC Member Services.

Both the Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Nutrition Coach credentials must be renewed every two years.

The Corrective Exercise Specialization will never expire and does not need to be renewed.