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Overview
The American Academy of Personal Training (AAPT) is a private occupational school internationally recognized for its innovative approach to personal training education and certification. AAPT's vocational certification curriculum combines equal amounts of classroom and practical instruction, conducted on-site with our experienced faculty. This hands-on style of learning enables students to develop confidence and aptitude in not only the science and business of personal training, but also in the everyday, practical aspects of the job.
Course Content
The AAPT course of study is focused on preparing students to work one-on-one with clients in a variety of settings. Graduates have a solid foundation in exercise science, training adaptations, and exercise prescription that far exceeds current standards in the industry.
Fulfilling Student Potential
At AAPT, our primary objective is to bring students to a level of competency that qualifies them for both initial employment and for sustained success and career advancement as fitness professionals. We strive to fulfill this objective by realizing the individual potential of each student in a supportive and challenging learning environment. To ensure the best possible mentorship, we have recruited a faculty team that has met both our rigorous academic and professional requirements as well as our equally rigorous passion requirements. Academy instructors are seasoned professionals who love to teach just as much as they love fitness.
Regulatory Oversight
Our success as a school is measured by the success of our graduates. Likewise, the needs of the fitness community determine the objectives for our curriculum. So how do we ensure that we're doing a good job? In addition to the direct feedback we get from our students, alumni and employer network, these regulatory bodies help to keep us on track:
Council on Occupational Education
Accredits AAPT nationally as a school that meets the highest standard of quality in career and technical education;
Reviews AAPT's accreditation annually to assure those
standards are maintained and the fitness industry's growing
need for highly trained professionals continues to be met. With COE accredtation awarded in 2011, AAPT became the only accredited school for personal trainers in the US.
Department of Education
Licenses AAPT to operate occupational schools in
the State of New York and the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
International Association for Continuing
Education and Training (IACET)
Accredits AAPT internationally as a continuing educatoin provider, awarding graduates with 30 Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for completion of the AAPT curriculum. With
its initial IACET approval in 2009, AAPT became the first US personal training school to receive international recognition.
Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE)
Formerly NOCA
Parent organization to the NCCA
Certifies AAPT under the newly formed standard for vocational schools; Certifies AAPT as a school offering vocational certification for personal trainers. ICE's daughter organization, the NCCA, provides the current standard for certification of personal trainers via examination methods.
AAPT's Occupational Advisory Committee (AAPT OAC)
Provides AAPT with industry-specific guidance to ensure that the school mission and coursework remain relevant and up-to-date according to current practices and standards in personal training.
AAPT's Institutional Advisory Committee (AAPT IAC)
Provides AAPT with community-specific guidance to ensure that the school objectives are appropriate to meet the local employment needs of the community.
Better Business Bureau
Accredits AAPT as a business that demonstrates fair, honest, reliable, transparent and responsive business practices.
