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Summary: In order to become a certified fitness trainer or certified personal trainer, a certification can be obtained from a number of organizations, such as the IFTA or the AFAA. Learn about becoming a personal trainer to help out people in the community with help from a certified personal trainer in this free video on becoming a certified fitness trainer.
Tanya Batts has been a certified personal fitness trainer for more than 11 years. She specializes in Pilates, yoga, combat cardio, aerobics, core conditioning and overall strength...read more
"Hi my name is Tanya Batts, and I am a personal trainer with Gold's Gym. I want to tell you how you can become a certified personal trainer or a certified fitness trainer. There are several organizations out there that you can kind of look to. There is a certain website. It is IFTA, Inter-active Fitness Trainers of America or AFAA, the American Fitness Association of America. Those are two great organizations. Kind of go on their website, and see if they are coming to a gym near you or a town near you. And the training is kind of like this all day long maybe for two days in a row. Kind of reviewing all of the muscles, joints, proper exercise, and techniques that you can do to help strengthen, and make your people strong or help them lose weight. But it is a great thing to do. So if you really enjoy helping people feel good about themselves then maybe being a personal trainer or a fitness trainer might be what you really need to look into. It is just a great way to kind of seeing the community, help people out, it is a great group of friends. So it might be what you need to do, and that is how you need to become a certified personal trainer."
eHow Article: How to Become a Certified Fitness Trainer