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Maintain Your Certification With Continuing Education

Now that you’ve taken the big step to become ACSM certified, you’ll want to make sure you keep your certification current with continuing education. Continuing education is required to ensure ongoing competency and to maintain a high standard for ACSM Certified Professionals.ACSM continuing education credit (CEC) requirements vary by certfication.  You'll find the CEC requirements for your certification click here.

Continuing Education Opportunities

There are many ways you can satisfy your ACSM continuing education requirements.

Attend an ACSM Certification Workshop.

ACSM Certification workshops are one way to renew your certification after becoming certified and to obtain CECs and updated information.

• ACSM Certified Personal Trainer^SM 3-Day Workshop: 20.75 ACSM CECs
  
• ACSM Certified Personal Trainer^SM 1-Day Workshop: 7.5 ACSM CECs
  
• ACSM Certified Health Fitness Specialist Workshop: 16.0 hrs. ACSM CECs
  
• ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Specialist Workshop: 13.25 ACSM CECs
  
• ACSM Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist^® Workshop: 15.0 ACSM CECs

Additional ACSM Workshops Offering CECs:

• 1-Day CEC course: Weight Management for the Fitness Professional: 7 ACSM CECs
  
• 1-Day CEC course:Behavior Change Strategies for Optimal Client Outcomes: 7 ACSM CECs
  
• 1-Day CEC course:Business Management for the Fitness Professional: ACSM CECs TBD

Please click here for a complete listing of ACSM workshops offering CECs.

Participate in an ACSM Approved Provider Offering

Click here to see list of approved providers

ACSM Meetings Offering CECs include:

• ACSM Annual Meeting
• ACSM Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition
• Team Physician Course, Part I and II
• Advanced Team Physician Course
• Regional Chapter Conferences and Annual Meetings
• Specialty Conferences
• Scientific Roundtables

Each year, ACSM approves entities who offer high quality continuing education.  New organizations are added frequently so be sure to visit the site often. Contact education@acsm.org if your company or organization is interested in our approved provider program.

Complete Distance Education or internet continuing education programs on specific clinical or health and fitness-related topics.

• Attend Professional Education Meetings from ACSM or other nationally recognized organizations.
  
• Take Continuing Education Self Tests that offer CECs, CMEs or CEUs from ACSM or other nationally recognized organizations.

- ACSM’s Certified News, our quarterly newsletter, features 4 CECs in each issue.

- ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal^® offers approximately 24 ACSM CECs per year. To receive the journal and other valuable membership benefits, including a discount on ACSM CECs, join ACSM's Alliance of Health & Fitness Professionals. To join, please call the ACSM Membership Department at 317-637-9200 or Click Here

Please note that all self-tests expire one year from the release date and must be submitted to the ACSM National Office on or before the expiration date in order to be eligible for continuing education credits.

Take and receive a passing grade in a health/fitness or exercise science-related course from an accredited college or university.

(10 CECs per credit hour. For example, a 3 credit hour course is worth 30 CECs. Course must be health/fitness or clinical related and completed with a grade of "C" or better.)

• Author or co-author books, journal articles, or accepted abstracts.

(10 CECs for publication in peer-reviewed professional journals, books, or accepted abstracts; authored or co-authored)

• Teach academic courses; conduct classroom instruction; or present health, fitness or clinical lectures at an organized professional conference.

(1 CEC per hour. For repetitive classes, credits only granted once in recertification time frame. Only 30 percent of your total credit hours may be obtained by these activities)

CEC Tracking Form

Click here to download a free CEC Tracking Form.  Use this form to keep a written record of your continuing education credits.

Continuing Education and Recertification Frequently Asked Questions

If you have questions about ACSM’s continuing education or recertification requirements, please Click here to review our list of frequently asked questions.