Lifetime Fitness and NPTI

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Lifetime Fitness and NPTI

by Shanna
(Alpharetta, Georgia)

I am interested in working for Lifetime Fitness as a personal trainer but they told me that they do not acknowledge NPTI certification. They told me that they will not employ me once I got NPTI certified! Why would they do that?

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Ignorance is probably the issue
by: Katie - Admin

NPTI is easily the best of the non-college personal training education courses. Lifetime Fitness is probably rejecting it because the person you spoke to doesn't know anything about NPTI. With so many acronyms of personal training certifications that all sound the same, it is easy to get them confused.

Instead, ask them what certifications they will accept. They will likely accept ACE or NASM or ACSM. The list usually depends on where the manager got their certification (because surely the manager chose the best one for himself).

Then you can get educated by NPTI and then take whatever certification test you want. You will be able to easily pass multiple certification exams after going through the NPTI program. For more info, check out my post about understanding the difference between education and certification.

- Katie

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Odd
by: Anonymous

That's odd, considering Lifetime accepts their advertising in their magazine.

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Lifetime Fitness and NPTI
by: Sue

By year end NPTI has a plan to be the top certifications of all. It will be a Nationally Accredited. There is no other program like it where it involves practical application. I am a student of NPTI and feel I got so lucky in choosing this school. I have learned so much. Our instructor is a manager at a local lifetime and said he views this program as the elite. The word just isn't out yet. The students in my class are recruited before they finish the program. Are you a NPTI student?

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Don't go to NPTI
by: Anonymous

Probably because the owners and managment of the company burn bridges and screw many over in the business. Its all a scam. Very few accept the "Diploma". They have been talking about becoming accredited for years. Still not anywhere close to a real certification such as NSCA. Yeah you may have fun workin out everyday and hanging out with everybody. But come on over 6,000 bucks and your not even certified. You won't learn anything after week 5 and you'll basically waist 11 more weeks of life and thousands just to .......hang out and work out.

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