NFPT Approved Providers
3rd party Sources for NFPT CECs
Select from a wide range of courses from these NFPT Approved CEC Providers. These providers offer courses that have been pre-approved for NFPT credit.
NFPT RECOMMENDED: Approved CEC Providers

Fitness Learning Systems provides distance learning courses that are accredited by the gold standard for allied health and fitness professional continuing education, IACET (International Association for Continuing Education and Training). Many FLS courses offer specialty certificates for working with the Medical Fitness community.

Strong Education teaches personal trainers, parents, and professionals how to adapt fitness and nutrition for children, adolescents, and adults with autism, Down syndrome, and other disabilities through our online special needs certification course.

There is no ‘one size fits all’ to human movement, rather there are many ‘human shapes’ that can accomplish the same movement goals.
More important than stereotypical standards and measurements to ‘ideal’ movements we can provide a more COMPLETE strategy to movement screening by looking at the complete person, their environment and their unique ‘parts’.

Fitness Education Online are one of the world leaders when it comes to providing continuing education courses for Personal Trainers online. They are an internationally recognized provider with their courses recognized in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. All Fitness Education Online courses are available online and can be taken from anywhere in the world.

Over the past 20 years the Academy of Holistic Fitness has become recognized and respected within the fitness industry for our innovative and outstanding series of continuing education courses that feature yoga, somatic education, and mind-body fitness.

Punk Rope’s goal is to make the world a better place one jump at a time. Punk Rope focuses on jump rope because of its unrivaled health and fitness benefits.

GMP Fitness courses are recognized for CECs by all major certification providers. These courses offer a variety of very specialized learning.

Global Fitness Educators is the South Florida headquarter location for ongoing year-round curriculum of the NFPT Workshop and continuing education for many other certification companies as well. NFPT Workshops are available nationwide.

Human Kinetics provides innovative products in all areas of physical activity, helping people worldwide to lead healthier, more active lifestyles through physical activity and improved nutrition. Human Kinetics (HK) has published over 500 textbooks and references that educate students from kindergarten through university level. HK constantly strives to produce and partner with the best in trainer education, resources and products.

NFPT and the Medical Fitness Education Foundation (MFEF) share a mutual goal of educating fitness professionals to be able to train, rehabilitate, prevent injury and preserve the quality of life for those with chronic disease/medical conditions. We believe education is crucial and that fitness professionals working with the aging population must have a higher level of knowledge, skill, and expertise in order to be safe and effective in their work. NFPT and MFEF are partnering to develop Advanced Special Populations courses to serve this growing population.

Sara’s City Workout (SCW) Fitness Education has been in business for 34 years and is the largest provider of continuing education conferences for fitness instructors with nine (9) regional shows (MANIAs) every year, each with 17+ sessions running every hour of every event on all different aspects of the fitness/wellness industry (Functional Training, Cycling, Mind/Body, Dance, Nutrition, Recovery, etc.).

Functional Aging Institute wants to share their vast expertise, experience and success to catapult your career and put you on the fast track to financial success, independence and security while specializing in the 55 plus market.

ACE offers specialty and continuing education courses for the purpose of complimenting your existing CPT credential. Choose from a wide variety of course titles, and add a new credential to your trainer tool belt.

American Academy of Health and Fitness, AAHF, offers courses that focus on the development of fitness trainers, nurses, and other health professionals in the area of improved quality of life during the aging process.

Exercise Etc. offers a wide variety of live fitness education events as well as home study and webinar sessions.

Leaders in Fitness is a premier virtual education provider offering fitness education videos.

The Kinesio Taping Method is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while allowing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion. It is used to successfully treat a variety of orthopedic, neuromuscular, neurological and medical conditions. Both Kinesio® Tex Tape and the training protocol have shown results that would have been unheard of using older methods and materials.

It’s yoga, Pilates, strength training, restorative physical therapy and circus rolled into one! This course takes you into the world of low flying aerial yoga fitness using a stretchy apparatus called the ‘Booty Bag’. This is a 3 part course and video series that teaches safe rigging options, anchored pull points, 3 basic swing heights, progressions, 12 comfortable points of contact, safe in’s and out’s, and more!

This Suspended Bodyweight Training system focuses on proper form, function and common sense program design.
Don’t see yours on the list? That’s okay! You can submit any CE learning activity for credit (it might just take us a little longer to process your CEC award if it is not from a pre-approved provider). Learn how to submit learning activity for CECs, Click Here.
This is not a complete list of pre-approved providers. The providers on this page offer special discounts or other incentives for NFPT and our trainers, and/or they have an exceptional industry history, course curriculums and reputation that we’d be crazy not to list them here! Contact us if you want to check for provider pre-approval for NFPT CECs or other details.