Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Certification

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180+ Courses			$1200+
500+ Videos			$500+
500+ Articles			$200+
Live Webinars			$100+
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Definition:

Certified Personal Trainer (CPT): Personal trainers work closely with clients to assess their fitness levels, set realistic goals, and develop personalized exercise programs to achieve those goals. This includes selecting goal-specific acute variables, selecting exercises that match the client's current level of fitness, designing routines, accurately regressing/progressing exercises, and providing proper instruction and cueing to ensure exercises are performed optimally.

Why Personal Trainers Get Certified:

Personal trainers are people who love health, fitness, exercise, and sports performance. They choose to become certified, respected professionals because they want to help people achieve their goals. Although anyone can exercise, it takes passion and commitment to learn the scientific principles that will result in optimal outcomes and give clients the best chance of achieving their goals.

Why the Brookbush Institute?

Unparalleled Accuracy of Information: The Brookbush Institute is the only comprehensively evidence-based education platform in the industry. We know that our colleagues want to be better, help more, and deliver unparalleled results, so they need the most accurate information available. The most accurate information can only be achieved with a systematic approach to developing evidence-based courses. That is why every course we offer is built from a systematic review of all available peer-reviewed and published research, with a focus on improving practical application.
Designed to be the Education Platform All of Wish Existed: The Brookbush Institute CPT certification is the only certification in the industry offered with an innovative system of modular courses, iterative testing, and credits (no summative final exam). Our courses include video, illustrations, audio, and text to ensure the learner has the format that they prefer wherever they are. Listen to courses in the car, watch close-captioned videos during breaks at work, or study the text and take notes at home. We are also incredibly passionate about making it comfortable to study from your phone so that you can sneak in study time, any time. Our goal is to develop the most accessible, flexible, and convenient education platform ever.
Affordability and Access are Part of our Mission: We are the only education provider in the industry to include our certifications in a true monthly (or yearly) membership plan. This reduces the initial cost of certification to just 3 - 5% of comparable certifications, and you can cancel anytime.

What our members are saying

Most valuable certificate

The H.M.S. is the most valuable certificate I have earned and was a fraction of the the cost of my others. Define the best bang for your buck!

Haseem Mclean

Well-documented scientific content

I am getting my Master's degree in Kinesiology, and I would like to say that I have benefited greatly from the rich, comprehensive, well-documented scientific content of Brookbush Institute that links theory to practical applications. Proudly I've got my CPT certificate, and I am on my way to get my HMS certificate.

Ahmed Salem

Users can transition seamlessly

Having courses count towards different certifications makes it so users can transition seamlessly from one certification to another. In my case, going from earning the BI CPT to earning the BI HMS was an easy decision and I am proud to have earned both certifications. I have also had the pleasure of going to a Live HMS workshop that was well taught by Instructor Boettcher and that was excellent to see how the methods and techniques are implemented.

Xavier Guzman

Highly recommend

I recently completed the CPT course. It was demanding yet practical. I would highly recommend it for anyone wanting an education about human movement.

Daniel Burnfield

Most efficient Personal Training Certification

Brookbush is the most efficient Personal Training Certification I have ever come across. All the lessons are well thought out and very straight to the point.

Nathan Libbey

explained in very understandable terms

Challenging concepts are explained in very understandable terms without dumbing down the material, and I find this program to be superior in quality to other personal training programs.

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Popular Courses

Lesson 2: Planes of Motion

This course explains the 3 planes of motion and how they apply to exercise analysis. It includes written definitions, video lectures, illustrations, and learning activities covering the sagittal plane, frontal plane (coronal plane), and transverse plane (horizontal plane), and many examples of exercises in each plane of motion.

1 Credit

Wood Chop Exercise and Progressions

Wood chop strength training exercises - best progressions for wood chops, cable chops, band chops, and anti-rotation core movements. Core movements for endurance, stability, hypertrophy, and strength and a sample core/oblique routine.

1 Credit

Stability Training

Stability Training: An exercise or rehabilitation program designed to enhance the body's ability to stabilize (maintain or regain balance). A stability training program prioritizes exercise progression over increasing repetitions, sets, load, or speed.

2 Credits

Power (High-velocity) Training: Introduction

Introduction to power and high-velocity training - recommended progressions, sets, and repetitions for upper and lower body power and explosive exercise. Muscular, neural, and force requirement between power training, strength training, and Olympic lifting.

3 Credits

Accreditations and Approvals

Brookbush Institute is accredited or approved by the following organizations.

American Council on Education

The Brookbush Institute’s Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Certification is one of only 2 personal training certifications to have completed comprehensive, systematic review, by a panel of 3rd party, subject matter experts (peer-review), and who’s course material has been matched to college curriculum and worthy of 3 college credits.

National Academy of Sports Medicine

Brookbush Institute is recognized by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. This logo certifies that this course is pre-approved by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) for continuing education units (CEU's). 1 course hour is worth 0.1 CEUs with NASM.

National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) preferred provider of continuing education units (CEUs).

1 Credit = 0.1 CEU

American Council on Exercise

This logo certifies that this course is pre-approved by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) for continuing education credits (CEC's). 1 course hour is worth 0.1 CEC's with ACE.

American Council on Exercise (ACE) approved provider of continuing education credits (CECs).

1 Credit = 0.1 CECs

International Sports Sciences Association

This logo certifies that this course is pre-approved by the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) for continuing education credits (CEC's).
Note: 1 course hour is worth 1.0 CEC's with ISSA.

International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) approved provider of continuing education contact hours.

1 Credit = 1 contact hour

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Certified Personal Trainer Course Modules

This certification is worth 60 credits and is broken down into the following modules:

12 credits

Introduction to Functional Anatomy

2 credits

Exercise Physiology

5 credits

Training Goals

6 credits

Strength and Power Progressions

5 credits

Core Progressions

9 credits

Acute Variables

1 credits

Research: Strength and Performance

10 credits

Electives

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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.

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.

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).

We Think About Continuing Education Credit Approval (So you don't have to)

How We Are Working to Fix This for Our Colleagues: 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.

3 Certifications, 180+ Courses, 500+ videos, and so much more!

The Brookbush Institute (BI) continues to improve affordability, access, flexibility, and convenience to the highest-quality education.

The Bl is the only approved/accredited certification and continuing education course provider with a true monthly membership model (cancel anytime).

This reduces the initial cost of education to just 3-5% of comparable education, improving access to complete, continue, or just "try" education with low financial risk. Don't get fooled by great marketing to make a large purchase for potentially sub-optimal education. Become a member, and find out why we think this is the way education should be!