About Advanced Personal Training
Bring client care to a whole new level! Enroll in Swedish Institute's Advanced Personal Training Certificate course offered through Swedish Institute's Department of Continuing Education.

Taught by recognized experts in the field of exercise science, course participants learn to work with clients at all levels of the health-fitness spectrum to create comprehensive and sophisticated programs of health and wellness utilizing exercise testing.

Students learn to promote healthier lifestyles by helping clients modify negative lifestyle behaviors. Students integrate pre-habilitation and post-rehabilitation exercises into a periodized approach to exercise program design suitable for clients ranging from the chronically ill to the elite athlete and everyone in between.

The two-semester Advanced Personal Training Certificate course is ideally suited for licensed health care professionals who wish to expand their practice by providing exercise instruction to clients but is open to members of the general public who have an interest in personal training.

The APT course consists of 160 hours of specific hands on and lecture instruction in exercise technique, testing, physiology, and programming. Those who do not meet the anatomy and physiology prerequisites may take the course pre/co-requisites. Graduates of the course receive a Swedish Institute Advanced Personal Training Certificate and are prepared to take national certification exams given by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Please note, Swedish Institute's APT course is much more than a certification prep course!