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canfitpro: Personal Training Specialist

Get the tools you need to start changing lives.

Canfitpro’s Personal Training Specialist course is an interactive and comprehensive learning experience available virtually and in-person with a live course instructor (a.k.a. PRO TRAINERS).

Immerse yourself in this in-depth self-directed, in-class, and practical application learning experience and feel ready to help others achieve their personal fitness goals.

Personal Trainers can earn a positive income and enjoy an emotionally satisfying career, let canfitpro get you there.

Get Certified In 4 Steps

  • Register & Prepare

    Choose your package, register, and start your self-study with the course materials and gain the theoretical knowledge to support the practical skills learning taught in the live course.

  • Attend the Course

    Attend the live course (in-Person or virtual) and apply your knowledge while learning high-performance practical skills, and getting expert advice, feedback, coaching.

  • Pass the Exam

    Take and pass your Theory Exam, then complete your live Practical Exam observed by a PRO TRAINER. An 80% grade is required to successfully complete each exam.

  • Submit your CPR

    Submit a copy of a valid CPR Certification (minimum requirement is CPR Level A) to canfitpro and your Certified!

Increase your knowledge and confidence to train clients.

  • Fitness, wellness, and training principles

  • Nutrition and bioenergetics

  • Cardiorespiratory, skeletal, and muscular system anatomy and function

  • Flexibility, mobility, and fascia

  • Passive and dynamic assessments

  • Periodized program design and delivery

  • The business of personal training

  • Behaviour change and coaching principles

  • Motivational Interviewing and client relationship tools

  • Includes virtually and in-person concepts

  • Diversity, equity and inclusion components throughout to recognize, and create, a more inclusive training environment

Personal Training Specialist (PTS) program topics:

Mika, the Personal Trainer with the book open, is shown teaching and helping another women understand the human body better and personal training better.

Mika, the Personal trainer shown in this picture, is standing in front of the gym she works.

The Personal Training Specialist Exams

We recommend you attempt the Theory Exam approximately 3 – 5 weeks after finishing the virtual or in-person course. This provides adequate time to prepare for the exam.

The Theory Exam:

  • Multiple choice questions

  • Written client case study

The Practical Exam:

  • An actual workout with a client, evaluated by your PRO TRAINER, either in-person or virtually

  • Assesses theoretical knowledge, rapport building, and practical application of fitness theory