Welcome to the program's offered by AAAI/ISMA! There is sure to be an exciting program for you!

This is the initial step to the rewarding career as a Personal Trainer. An introductory study into anatomy, muscle physiology, cardiovascular physiology, kinesiology, client evaluation, program design, and the tools necessary to start your career will be covered. 

A brief introduction into the world of preventative exercise prescription and conditioning to keep the athlete whether professional or weekend on the field, healthy and performing at their best.

Based on a performance model, this certification focuses on the needs of the asymptomatic client whose needs are for performance in a particular area. Professional, career, student, and domestic athletes are featured in this workshop. Strength, Olympic lifting, and plyometrics are introduced.

 This is the toy box of certifications. Bands, bars, balls, gliding disks, body weight, and anything else you mind can come up with are featured here. Bringing the group exercise class into the weight room or vice versa would be an adequate description of this creative approach to exercise.   

This is the business of the business. The tools you need to become a successful Personal Trainer are laid out in terms easy to understand. Business plans, social networking, mentoring, mastermind groups, new training techniques, and the necessary understanding of the business are explored.

With the Baby Boomer generation becoming of age, the largest group of exercisers is now joining the AARP generation! Time, money, and desire set this group apart. They want to be active, healthy, and productive. This workshop presents techniques to enhance lifestyles of those who are sedentary to competitive athletes.  

Learn that kids and teens are not just small adults. This workshop takes a fun look at the steps necessary to develop the skills needed to make healthy, active kids become healthy adults. From the competitive athlete to the couch potato, there is something for everyone.

Understand the changes and developments in a women’s body when they are experiencing the gift of life. Topics such as contraindications, cardiovascular, and muscular health, weight management, stress management, movement changes, and nutrition will be explored. In addition, learn the steps to get your new body even better than before.

A brief introduction into the exciting world of Flexibility and stretching.  This certification will dive into the physiology,  problem areas, fascia, and different tchniques to keep everyone supple and move at their best without limits.  Whether a professional athlete or weekend warrior, this  certification will keep  your clients on the field, healthy and performing at their best.  

Learn the basics of Macro nutrients (Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats) and micro nutrients, (vitamins, minerals, and water) while learning how to better educate clients on how to improve their health through nutrition. 

The leading cause of concern in a health unconscious nation, this workshop describes the issues, reviews programs, and sets the groundwork for future work. Taking charge of our health, through a balance of exercise and nutrition, make this workshop a necessity for all fitness professionals. 

  This certification provides an alternate way of looking at the Personal Training industry. Instead of sets and reps you study understanding the client from ways such as ayurvedic, acupuncture, energy fields, vitamins and minerals, herbs, meditation, and other modalities of alternative health. For any Personal Trainer that has a client where nothing else has worked, it is a great addition.  

 Taking the Personal Training ideas and applying to the whole person. Alternative forms of health care such as exercise, stress reduction, personal accountability, holistic treatments, nutrition, and relaxation are just a few of the elements studied to give trainers incite to the complexity of success. The day becomes a brainstorming session to create a new wellness business.  

 This certification empowers students to do direct tai chi classes that incorporate slow, low impact movements, accompanied by controlled breathing to stimulate organ systems, enhance energy, improve strength, flexibility, and reduce stress.  

 Learn the Six basic principles, history, and applications that Joseph Pilates founded the Pilates Method of exercise on, while practicing the basics of a Mat Class format. 

 A more comprehensive certification incorporating the information gained in Pilates I and incorporating balls, lifts and other devices to enhance the effectiveness of the mat Pilates Class.  

A broad spectrum of Pilates techniques is studied: from evaluation, execution, and modification of the Pilates techniques, to understanding the clients needs. This certification brings your knowledge to a level that you start to totally embrace the Pilates principles.

 Understand the history and philosophy of yoga, while learning; the sun salutation, asana sets 1 through 5, anatomy, physiology, class structure, power yoga variations, yoga breathing, and meditation techniques.  

Expand you yoga teaching with advanced core asanas, creating power flow vinyasa, advanced pranayama, intermediate asana sets, inverted positions, partner techniques and advanced meditation.  

The beginning of the fitness craze! Making a strong comeback is the Aerobic/Group Fitness certification which teaches you the basics of cardiovascular and muscle physiology, injury prevention, class safety, designing choreography, and providing a safe, effective, and fun class. 

A 25 year plus fitness phenomenon, step had weathered the test of time. This certification gives you the basics of cardiovascular and muscle physiology, injury prevention, class safety, designing choreography, and providing a safe, effective, and fun class. 

Taking the group fitness class to a new level, this certification teaches basic punch, kicks, and combinations there of to from an exciting class that keeps men and women’s attention and heart pumping 

 Taking the group fitness class to a new level, this certification teaches basic punch, kicks, and combinations there of to from an exciting class that keeps men and women’s attention and heart pumping 

 Take your group training to a new level by combining the hottest workouts into one dynamic experience that will completely change how you train clients forever! 

Take your training to the pool with the popular exercise program that is easy on the joints and good for the heart.  Learn the unique principles of water exercise, aqua anatomy and kinesiology, water depth options, dealing with special populations and program design.