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Become an ACSM
Certified Health Fitness Specialist
Are you a personal trainer ready
to step up to the next level? Would you like the ability to work
with a wider variety of clients, including those with health risks? Then
the ACSM Certified Health Fitness Specialist Certification is for
you.
Considered our advanced personal
trainer certification, ACSM Certified Health Fitness Specialist are
required to have at least an Associate’s Degree and are qualified
to work with special populations with medically controlled diseases who
have been cleared by their physician for independent
exercise.
Becoming ACSM Certified says a lot about you
It says you have chosen to become
certified by the organization that’s leading the way in health
fitness and clinical certifications.
Did you know?
- ACSM was the first to
certify health fitness professionals … and to
date we have certified over 25,000 health fitness professionals in 44
countries.
- ACSM establishes the exercise
guidelines that all other certifications use for testing … so
you know you will be certified by the organization that is setting the
standards in the health fitness industry.
- ACSM certifications are NCCA-accredited … assuring you that
our certifications meet the highest qualifications.
ACSM
Certified Health Fitness Specialist Scope of Practice
The ACSM Certified Health
Fitness Specialist (HFS) is a degreed health and fitness
professional qualified to pursue a career in university, corporate,
commercial, hospital, and community settings. The HFS is
skilled in the following:
- Conducting risk
stratification.
- Conducting physical fitness
assessments and interpreting results.
- Constructing appropriate exercise
prescriptions.
- Motivating apparently healthy
individuals with medically controlled diseases to adopt and maintain
healthy lifestyle behaviors.
- Motivating individuals to begin
and continue with their healthy behaviors.
Minimum
Requirements for becoming an ACSM Certified Health Fitness
Specialist
To become an ACSM Certified Health
Fitness Specialist you must meet all of the following minimum
requirements:
- Associate’s or
Bachelor’s Degree in a health-related* field from a
regionally accredited college or university (you are eligible to sit for
the certification exam if you are in the last term or semester of your
degree program)
* Examples: Nursing, Occupational
Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Health Care
Administration, Physical Education, Exercise Science, Kinesiology,
Kinesiotherapy, Athletic Training, Physiology, Sports Management,
Biology, Exercise Physiology, Human Performance, Health Science,
Recreation Management/Science, Nutrition, Community Health, Public
Health, and Health Promotion.
- Current Adult CPR
certification with a practical skills component (such as the
American Heart Association or American Red Cross)
Join ACSM as an Alliance
Member and Save $60 on ACSM Certification!
When you join the ACSM Alliance of Health and
Fitness Professionals you will save $60 on getting
certified and receive many other valuable benefits including:
- Free subscription to ACSM’s
Health & Fitness Journal ($55
Value)
- Free subscription to our
bimonthly e-newsmagazine, Sports Medicine
Bulletin ($40
Value)
- Inclusion in our Online
Membership Directory
- Discount registration for our
annual ACSM Health & Fitness Summit ($140 Value)
- Discounts on continuing education
self-test fees ($200
value), insurance, consumer products, and
more!
You can join for as little
as $50 right now. Click here to learn more
and become an ACSM member today!
To learn more about becoming an ACSM Certified Health
Fitness Specialist please register for our free Certification
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