When you have a fitness improvement-related business or planning to build your fitness career, it is an advantage to have additional credentials to attract more clients. With the programs available at NASM, you will be able to gain more knowledge on various fitness specializations ranging from MMA conditioning, youth exercise, virtual coaching, and nutrition.
Below are some of the available programs that you can take at NASM:
Certified Nutrition Certification
NASM has developed a certification that provides the latest information on nutrition science and coaching strategies. Through this program, you will be able to help your client’s athletic performance and body composition improve. It includes an outline of nutritional science and strategies.
Corrective Excercise Specialization
With this certification, you will be able to gain additional knowledge from the 18 chapters of the program. Upon completion, you will gain abilities and skills in reducing their risks of having injuries from wrong workout movements whether they are beginners or experts in fitness.
Weight Loss Specialization
One of the reasons why a person asks for a fitness coach’s program is to be healthy and for them to look good. With the weight loss specialization program, you can help them lose weight by coaching them on proper nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle strategies.
Home Gym Design Specialization
Although gyms started to reopen after the pandemic restrictions, many people still chose to continue working out at home. With this program, you will be able to help your clients in picking up the right gym equipment and the preparations needed depending on their program.
Virtual Coaching Specialization
Homes have been a safe place for everyone since the pandemic. Now that you have the opportunity to do online fitness coaching, you will be able to equip your online gym with the proper tools and skills through this specialization. You will be guided on how to operate your coaching business digitally, as well as the skills and knowledge to create and modify fitness programs.
Youth Exercise Specialization
In this program, you will be able to learn which problems are keeping the youth from working out. From this, you will be able to encourage and motivate them in sports and other fitness programs. The specialization includes fitness assessments, resistance training, and many more.
MMA Conditioning Specialization
This conditioning specialization is specifically designed to make you a specialist equipped with proper and updated training techniques, nutrition, and the needed supplements for MMA fighters, and injury prevention.
Senior Fitness Specialization
A specialization program dedicated to meeting the needs of your senior clients, this includes innovative ways to help you create and modify a program for your aging clients. It covers practices that may address their psychological and physiological needs.
