Fitness & Personal Training
Personal trainer and fitness professional certification exams — NCCA-accredited credentials from NASM and ACE.
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Families group sibling exams — the tiers of one credential, the split and combined versions of a licence, the per-state variants. Each opens its own page with every exam and its free resources.
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What you'll find on every Fitness & Personal Training exam
Each exam has up to four pages, one per job to be done: practice the questions, understand the exam, study the outline, or revise the morning of. Flashcards and glossary terms sit inside the study guide rather than on pages of their own.
- Practice tests2
- Free question banks with a worked explanation on every answer.
- Exam guides2
- Cost, format, eligibility and difficulty, straight from the official outline.
- Study guides2
- Full outline coverage, plus the exam's flashcards and glossary terms.
- Cheat sheets2
- One-page summaries built for the last review, with a PDF download.
Official sources
Every exam number on this page traces to a document published by the body that sets or administers the exam. These are the primary publishers cited across Fitness & Personal Training.
- National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)support.nasm.orgcited by 1 exam
- American Council on Exercise (ACE)acefitness.orgcited by 1 exam
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