In order to become an ace personal trainer, you first of all need to take the ace personal training exam. This is pretty challenging exam if you did not study with the ACE Personal Trainer Manual.
The ACE Personal Trainer Manual has certain specifics that are definitely specific to ACE. Often the manual will refer to other personal trainer certification, like ACSM OR NASM, but also has a unique method and as been getting more and more specific in the last decade.
I’ve been with ACE personal training since 1993, and I’ve recently in the last few months taken their entrance exam, since I haven’t been following up on their required CECs, being so busy in fitness! I read their recent book and found it uncomfortably specific to ACE. I blew that part off, but then after taking the test, I was disappointed in seeing many questions only related to the ACE personal trainer manual. Sure I believe in fitness, I love fitness, and I also believe their should be more conformity with all the personal training certifications.
In the end, I am definitely happy to be an ACE personal trainer, I’ve learned a lot, but definitely I learned much more from my college degree, about a million to one. Thing is, if you are going to personal train for someone else’s body, you must be creative to figure out what their body requires for their goals. To get that knowledge, a person needs a degree on the body, be it a simple exercise science degree, but more importantly, a biomechanics degree or higher.
