The goal of the NGA is to provide you with quality excellence in personal training certification programs and fitness education.  The NGA fitness certification courses are developed for both practical and ethical standards to insure that certification provides you with the most current training principles in health, fitness, nutrition, and exercise physiology.

Today NGA Personal Fitness Certification training programs are state of the art training, which we are one of the few fitness certification programs that provides you with on-line training. In addition the NGA provides you with a continuing education courses, which are developed based on the most advanced training principals in the industry, from Exercise Strength Training, Nutrition, and Sports Medicine.

The main goal of the NGA is to provide you with an affordable educational experience that is both practical and functional for the fitness professional and the general public.  Today our membership has grown and will continue because our organization and representatives reside throughout the United States, and the world.  The NGA will continue to be the dominant leader and inventor not only in the personal fitness certification industry but in the natural bodybuilding area as well.

The NGA will continue to be the driving force in the industry by providing Fitness Professionals with a Fitness Certification program that sets new standards in the industry.

About NGA Certified Trainers

The National Gym Association, Inc. (NGA) Personal Fitness Certification course provides you with the most advance skills needed to become one of the nation's best qualified professional fitness trainers.  The NGA Fitness certification course provides you with the confidence and knowledge to work in the industry knowing you have the education to teach as a professional personal trainer.  The professional Fitness Trainers Certificate course is designed to integrate a wide area of exercise science, anatomy, nutrition, and training techniques.

The NGA personal training certification course provides you with the most comprehensive certification course in the industry.  The personal fitness trainer's course is designed to prepare men and women who have chosen to pursue careers as professional personal trainers or as private training instructors.  The professional fitness trainer's certification is designed to satisfy a demanding and well-informed client's expectations for safety, professionalism, and current knowledge.

Old Navy & the NGA would like to acknowledge all the gyms, health clubs, fitness centers, sponsors, and vendors who have supported the NGA's crusade "Drug-Free Athletes of America."  But mostly we want to acknowledge the men and women who are competitive natural bodybuilders and supporting our ideals of no politics or control of athletes.  Bodybuilding organizations should not discriminate or judge any athlete because of their affiliation of an opposing organization.  Athletes should be allowed to enter any and as many organizations as they wish.

We will win the war of steroid use and the only way we can do this each athlete must spread the words "NO STEROIDS" to promoters who do not wish to promote a drug-free show.

• Responsible
• Knowledgeable
• Experienced
• Professionals

Certification courses are offered by the centers of athletic knowledge throughout our nation -- the sports organizations and gyms -- where it all began and still takes place.  As a result of the growing popularity of health and fitness in the United States during the past twenty five years, these courses are also offered by a number of other organizations with ties to exercise physiology, sports medicine, and preventative health care.

Considering their content, most of these certification courses define a personal trainer as a man or woman with knowledge about the physical and chemical effects that the mechanics of exercise have upon the body.  The content of these courses, and the shifting of emphasis on certain subjects, is determined by the primary concerns of the sponsoring organization.  For example, the courses sponsored by medical organizations emphasize physiology and the treatment of athletic injuries.  The courses sponsored by athletic organizations emphasize training technique and the prevention of injuries. Both of these views have merit in the classroom. However, neither of these views addresses a very important issue in real life.

After many years devoted to training thousands of individuals, I've come to believe that there is much more to a personal trainer than this basic knowledge of physiology and technique. After you are certified, how do you apply this knowledge to an individual?  This is a crucial issue: a good personal trainer learns how to read the individual.  This includes not only a person's physical condition, but his or her emotional state as well.  A successful personal trainer is going to build a program around that individual's lifestyle and personality, incorporating their real world in the pursuit of ideal health and appearance.