Whether you’re a health & fitness professional looking to boost your career or just need to pick up some CEU’s, the National Academy of Sports Medicine has you covered. With 10 specialty credentials available you can become specialized in various high-demand niches and populations.
NASM Special Offer: Click here to view all NASM Specialty Certifications and use promo code AFFSPECApril to save 5% on your purchase. Below you’ll find a description of each credential based on category:
Fitness and Performance
| Corrective Exercise Specialist | NASM’s Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) credential helps you gain recognition as an elite professional by teaching you how to integrate human movement science with solutions for optimal injury prevention and recovery. You'll learn to apply the Corrective Exercise Continuum to successfully work with clients experiencing musculoskeletal impairments, muscle imbalances, or rehabilitation concerns. For the CES, amount of continuing education credits are based on which type of study package you purchase. NASM, ACE, NSCA, BOC and AFAA accept CEUs earned from becoming a CES. | |
| Performance Enhancement Specialist | NASM’s Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES) credential helps personal trainers, athletic trainers, chiropractors, physical therapists, coaches, and other sports professionals work with athletes at all levels, from the secondary education and university tier to professional- and Olympic level athletes. PES covers human movement science, postural considerations, the elements of an integrated performance profile and assessment, integrated program design, and nutrition. It’s based on scientifically valid evidence and applications that deliver the improvements athletes require. For the PES, amount of continuing education credits are based on which type of study package you purchase. NASM, ACE, NSCA, BOC and AFAA accept CEUs earned from becoming a PES. | |
| Group Personal Trainer Specialist | Earning a NASM Group Personal Training Specialist (GPTS) credential allows you to offer more fitness solutions to a broader audience, helping hundreds reach their goals. By adding GPTS to your qualifications will help you learn how to coach effectively in a group setting, create a business plan for optimal financial success, integrate group personal training to your current fitness business and more. CEUs: NASM 1.9 | |
Nutrition
| Fitness Nutrition Specialist | NASM’s Fitness Nutrition Specialist (FNS) credential will help you become an expert on diet and nutrition - including energy balance, caloric needs, and metabolism. It will help you share with clients how food choices impact fitness goals. CEUs: NASM 1.9 | ACE 2.0 | NSCA 2.0 | BOC 37.5 | |
| Weight Loss Specialist | The NASM Weight Loss Specialist (WLS) credential brings you the knowledge you need to work with overweight clients - from moderately overweight to morbidly obese. WLS covers the physiology and psychology of weight loss, in addition to the current nutritional and physical activity guidelines specific to weight-loss clients. The WLS credential also details how to apply the exclusive NASM OPT model when designing exercise programs for weight-loss clients. CEUs: NASM 1.9 | ACE 1.9 | |
Special Populations
| Women's Fitness Specialist | Address the very special needs of women - through all their life phases - and help them achieve their fitness goals. Boost your reputation, career, and client base by training women of all ages and body types, including younger, pre- and postnatal, and older women. CEUs: NASM 1.3 | NSCA 1.0 | ACE 1.3 | |
| Youth Exercise Specialist | The Youth Exercise Specialist (YES) credential prepares you to help young clients lose weight, improve their skills in sports, and learn things about their bodies that will serve them for the rest of their lives. It can help you enter and succeed in a niche market that’s growing every day. And it can position you to help in the larger battle against childhood obesity. CEUs: NASM 1.0 | NSCA 1.0 | ACE 1.0 | |
| Senior Fitness Specialist | The Senior Fitness Specialist (SFS) credential prepares you to better administer resistance and cardio respiratory training for older populations and teaches you how to design programs to combat the onset of common chronic health conditions. CEUs: NASM 1.0 | NSCA 1.0 | ACE 1.0 | |
Sport Specific
| Golf Fitness Specialist | Specifically designed to improve swing performance and help reduce golf-related injuries the unique needs of both amateur and pr golfers alike, the Golf Fitness Specialist (GFS) credential allows you to tap into the growing in-demand niche of golf conditioning. CEUs: NASM 1.0 | NSCA 1.0 | ACE 1.0 | |
| MMA Conditioning Specialist | Even if you never prepare your clients for combat, you’ll benefit from the Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Specialist (MMACS) credential. By harnessing the growing popularity of MMA you'll learn how to condition clients of all skill levels with the MMA training techniques employed by top MMA fighters. Much of the course focuses on working with groups using different tools and spaces to make workouts more stimulating. CEUs: NASM 1.2 | NSCA 1.0 | ACE 1.2 | |
