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The Best Personal Training Certification?
There are so many problems with the personal training certifications on the market: high prices, poorly taught (or boring) exercise science courses, misleading and/or incorrect information, formats that prevent learning on the go, hidden fees, etc... All of this must make fitness professionals feel like they are trying to choose the right personal trainer certification by selecting the least bad option.
What is a Fully Accredited Personal Trainer Certification?
Accreditation should result in CPT certification providers completing 3rd party, systematic, and objective peer review by subject matter experts under the supervision of a national council developed for competency assurance. The review should include all content and exams. While this is the requirement necessary to pass the American Council on Education (ACE) approval, it is not part of the most popular accreditation, the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).
How Much Does a Personal Training Certification Cost (Including Hidden Fees)?
This article will help you choose the right certification by sharing all of the associated costs of the most popular certified personal trainer (CPT) certifications in the fitness industry. This includes the full upfront certification price, hidden fees, and post-purchase costs. We have included as many links as we can to cite where we found this information, but we also dug much deeper.
We Think About Continuing Education Credit Approval (So you don't have to)
Currently, the only solution we are aware of to reduce the accreditation confusion problem and help our colleagues with their continuing education and certification needs is to build a massive accreditation portfolio. That is, we do the research to determine which accreditations are necessary, acquire as many accreditations as we can to ensure everyone is covered, and ensure that our colleagues can demonstrate continuing education and certification completion with documentation that is accreditor-compliant.
Our Team
People on the mission to make education accessible to everyone.
Brent Brookbush
CEO & Founder
Dr. Brent Brookbush has been an impassioned human movement professional since 1998, and an impassioned educator since 2004. Dedicated to the optimization of education in the industry, he has been a resource for industry giants like New York Sports Clubs (TSI), Equinox, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), SHAPE Magazine, Power Plate, BeachBody, Concordia University Chicago (CUC), and many more.
David Boettcher
Education
David works as a professor of kinesiology at the University of Houston and Lone Star College in the Houston, Texas area. He has been working at the Brookbush Institute for the last 8 years as a workshop instructor, manager, and content editor.
John Campione
Education
Dr. John Campione is a Chiropractic Physician from Warrenville, Illinois. John’s commitment to enhancing the well-being and education of individuals through a comprehensive and patient-centered approach has established him as a respected figure in the health and fitness industries. In 2010, John received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from the National University of Health Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology from the West Virginia University School of Medicine in 2005.
Cristine Leva
Customer Service & Accreditation
Cristine has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Marketing concentration from Ramapo College of New Jersey and years of experience in the medical billing field.
Jennifer Borruso
Marketing
Jennifer Borruso, BI CPT, HMS, PN-1, has been a certified personal trainer and human movement professional since 2018, a Brookbush Institute member since 2019, and joined Brookbush Institute in December 2022 as the social media marketing manager.
Tristan J. Rodik
Education
I am a certified athletic trainer (ATC) and strength and conditioning coach, practicing since 2014. Additionally, I have been writing for the Brookbush Institute of Human Movement Science since 2017.
Suzanne Kirk
Marketing
Suzanne enlisted in the United States Navy at 18 and was an aircraft engine mechanic from 2005-2009. After her enlistment ended, she continued working in Aviation until 2013. She would then acquire a B.S. in Business Management, and start a career in sales with UPS, where she handled high-volume clients and their supply chain needs.
M. Ahmed
Full-stack Developer
Ahmed is a Fullstack Developer with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. He loves to solve complex problems and sometimes over-engineer solutions to simple issues.
Amrik Malhans
Full-stack Developer
Amrik started programming when he was young in his early teens, and he loves to build solutions on the internet with his code, he's contributed to build the educational platform at Brookbush Institute and has handled technical support.