Accredited Personal Trainer School & Personal Trainer Certification

The NPTI Colorado employs comprehensive college level texts that will provide both a source of education and a future reference in your personal training career. All texts are included in your tuition / fees costs.

NSCA Guide to Sport & Exercise Nutrition NSCA’s Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition provides valuable information and guidelines that address the nutrition needs for the broad range of clientele serviced by strength and conditioning professionals, personal trainers, and sport dietitians. Whether you work with fitness enthusiasts or competitive athletes, this resource will lead you through the key concepts of sport and exercise nutrition so that you can assess an individual’s nutrition status and—if it falls within your scope of practice—develop customized nutrition plans. This textbook offers the latest research and literature review from respected scientists and practitioners with expertise in nutrition, exercise, and sport performance covering all aspects of food selection, digestion, metabolism, and hydration relevant to sport & exercise performance. safe and effective ways to improve training and performance through natural nutrition-based ergogenic aids like supplementation and macronutrient intake manipulation. guidelines about proper fluid intake to enhance performance and the most important criteria for effectively evaluating the quality of sport drinks and replacement beverages cutting-edge findings on nutrient timing based on the type, intensity, and duration of activity will help you understand how to recommend the correct nutrients at the ideal time to achieve optimal performance results. forms consisting of a food log, brief athlete nutrition assessment, and goal-setting questionnaire can be copied and shared with your clients

National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) “Essentials of Personal Fitness Training” Developed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), this book is designed to help people prepare for the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Certification exam or learn the basic principles of personal training using NASM's Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model. The OPT model presents NASM's protocols for building stabilization, strength, and power. The text covers the essentials of personal fitness training: Basic Exercise Science Human Movement Science Fitness Assessment Flexibility Training Concepts Cardiorespiratory Training Concepts Core-Training Concepts Balance-Training Concepts Power Training Concepts Speed, Agility, and Quickness Resistance-Training Concepts Program Design Concepts Special Populations Behavior Modification Professional Development

In addition to up-to-date, college level texts, NPTI Colorado provides the student with:

• A fully developed syllabus with day-by-day reading assignments, major points to be remembered, and on-line study sheets
• Case studies
• A valuable diet & nutrition project which can be used for future client diet & nutrition analysis
• Program Design and other templates
• Access to valued, subscription based on-line tools that the student will use throughout his / her personal training career like PTontheNet.com

ELECTIVES / TEXTBOOKS

Each elective has associated texts and materials to include:

American Academy of Health & Fitness

• Senior Fitness Program
• Training Obese Children and Adolescents
• National Academy of Sports Medicine

• Corrective Exercise Specialist
• Performance Enhancement Specialist

• Level 1 Kettlebell Instructor

• Level 1 Cardio Programming HeartZones Training (HZT) instructor

• Starting Your own Fitness Business
• Bootcamp / Group X training
• Tactical Training for Emergency Services Workers