ACTION Personal Training Certification Program

[roachie2027]

Has anyone done this program yet?? Its relitively new && its a free exam plus they give you the 300 page online book for study! I'm just curious what others think about the program, what to study for, how is the exam (detailed or more general questions)? If anyone can offer some insight it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

[slbross]

I get what they're saying but I am still skeptical. Either way, as of today they are still not accredited, though they feel they will be soon. Getting the accredited cert will still cost you a bit of money. Their textbook is 300 pages, yet they claim they want to provide more education and less hoops to jump through. A 300 page text is far less education than any of the other certs will give you. They also say you'll want to upgrade. I'm certain you will, if the exam is as comprehensive as they claim, and if they don't just want people to memorize facts and spit them out, that free text ain't gonna cover it unless you already have college education in the field. All the other certs offer some manner of symposium, webinar, etc. also, but for a lot more money.

They make it clear that they will have to gain credibility by producing a lot of qualified trainers, and then once those trainers are in the field and prove that they know their stuff, it will make their cert one desired by employers and respected by the industry. That's fine, that's how all of them got their credibility, but if you wait until they get the accreditation (maybe this month? It's been delayed a year already), then you can be one of the first people to have their real accredited CPT cert from them. Then you will be one of those people making the cert legit. In other words, you'll have to navigate getting a job and proving yourself so that the cert looks good to the industry, as opposed to the established certs, which already make you look good because they've already been proven.

I haven't read the text or taken the exam, so for all I know it is comprehensive and up there with the others in preparing trainers. This seems unlikely, but again, I have no way of knowing.

But in the mean time, go look at job advertisements. Most places are pretty clear about what certs they will or will not take and I promise you that zero of them will list this one, because it is too new and isn't yet accredited. You'd have to really sell yourself on your skills to get a job at the kind of place that doesn't care about answering to clients when they want to know their trainer's certification.

Honestly, in the end, you can spend $600-1200 preparing for one of the big certs, or $120 on this one, and you could be employed months before with the established cert...and how much money will you make in the extra month or several of employment versus all the time you'll spend trying to get a job with this new cert?

Here's a line from jobs I looked at recently (all of these are mandatory, not optional requirements):
A city rec center on-call cpt job: "Certification as a personal trainer by a nationally accredited organization (ACE, ACSM, NASM, or NSCA) and or specialty fitness certification."
24 Hour Fitness: "· Degree in a related field or approved Personal Training Certification (listed below) required
· American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
· Certified Personal Trainer
· Health Fitness Specialist
· Clinical Exercise Specialist
· Clinical Exercise Physiologist
· Cancer Exercise Trainer
· Certified Inclusive Fitness Trainer
· American Council on Exercise (ACE)
· Personal Trainer Certification
· Lifestyle & Weight Management Consultant Certification
· Advanced Health and Fitness Specialist
· The Cooper Institute-Certified Personal Trainer
· International Fitness Professionals Association (IFPA)
· Personal Fitness Trainer Certification
· Advanced Personal Fitness Trainer
· Master Personal Fitness Trainer
· National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)-Certified Personal Trainer
· National Council on Strength and Fitness (NCSF)-Personal Trainer
· National Exercise and Sports Trainers Association (NESTA)-Personal Fitness Trainer
· National Federation of Professional Trainers (NFPT)-Personal Trainer
· National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
· Certified Personal Trainer
· Certified Strength and Conditional Specialist
· World Instructor Training Schools (W.I.T.S)
· Personal Trainer"
Camp Gladiator: "Nationally accredited personal training certification (ie; NSCA, NASM, Cooper, ACE, ACSM, etc.)"

Etc. They will pretty much all be like that.

[roachie2027]

WOW! Awesome information!
Thank you so much for your help!

[WoofieNugget]

Yet another PT program giving people a piece of paper to be able to tell people they are a trainer when they have read a small manual and taken a free test.

Hopefully if you ever applied for a job with that cert they would look at it and laugh.

[Ronin4help]

Yet another PT program giving people a piece of paper to be able to tell people they are a trainer when they have read a small manual and taken a free test.

Hopefully if you ever applied for a job with that cert they would look at it and laugh.

I Agee. These cents hurt the industry. They help trainers get jobs, maybe, but in the end we all suffer the ridiculousness of a credential with this type of acquisition protocol. What's next, Cracker Jack Certification?

[JoeCannonMSCSCS]

I cover ACTION in my review of online certs here is the link

http://helpforpersonaltrainers.com/o...worth-college/

[Curleedst]

BUMPING up to the top - any thoughts on this certification since they offer a FREE certificate and you can sit for the bonafide $60 certification exam?

[Ronin4help]

Again... sounds like crap. Get a cert that cost more than a pair of Nikes.

[BC02]

BUMPING up to the top - any thoughts on this certification since they offer a FREE certificate and you can sit for the bonafide $60 certification exam?

itd be good for ceus, but none of the gyms around here(az) accept it. strange that its not accepted though since its accredited by the ncca. i would bet itll soon be accepted at more places do the the ncca accredation though

[Ronin4help]

BUMPING up to the top - any thoughts on this certification since they offer a FREE certificate and you can sit for the bonafide $60 certification exam?

Just grab your sons crayons, draw out a cert, color it in so it's nice and pretty and call it whatever you want. Cost=$1.25