Gain essential expertise with NASM’s leading fitness certification. The CPT Essentials Bundle combines personal training, nutrition coaching, CPR/AED certification, and practical skills support to help you start your fitness career with confidence and a strong foundation.
The CPT Essentials Bundle is designed for aspiring personal trainers who want to build the essential knowledge and skills needed to enter the fitness industry. This bundle brings together the core NASM Certified Personal Trainer course with nutrition coaching, CPR/AED certification, and practical skills training to support your development as a confident fitness professional.
The bundle includes the Certified Personal Trainer Premium Self-Study Course, Certified Nutrition Coach course, CPR/AED Certification Course, and CPT Practical Skills Workshop. Together, these programs cover key areas such as exercise science, client assessments, program design, behavior change, nutrition coaching, emergency response, and practical application of the OPT™ Model.
This bundle helps you gain the fundamentals needed to coach clients safely and effectively while expanding your knowledge beyond training alone. It provides a strong starting point for building a career in personal training with added support in nutrition, CPR/AED readiness, and real-world coaching application.
The CPT Essentials Bundle equips you with the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to begin your career as a personal trainer. Key outcomes include designing effective fitness programs, coaching clients with confidence, applying basic nutrition coaching strategies, understanding CPR/AED response, and using practical training tools to support safer and more effective client results.
Key Knowledge & Skills Gained
Professional Benefits
As one of the most trusted sources of fitness training certifications in the world, NASM is a distinguished name that will stand out to fitness employers. When you choose NASM for your fitness career education, you'll get access to world-class fitness experts, your top choice of gyms to work for, and much more:
For your Certified Personal Trainer credential, you must have a high school degree or GED. You're also required to have a current CPR and AED certification before you take the exam. For your convenience, the online CPR/AED Certification offered by NASM is included in the CPT Essentials Bundle.
The CPT Practical Skills Workshop demonstrates how to best utilize NASM's Optimum Performance Training® (OPT™) model to customize and align fitness programming for various client goals. The course consists of two modules: Course Introduction and Prep, and CPT Practical Skills Workshop Lecture Videos.
The first module (Course Introduction and Prep) focuses on level setting knowledge by providing a pre-test to gauge where the learner is in their education. It also provides prep and prep materials to review prior to the workshop.
The second module (CPT Practical Skills Workshop Lecture Videos) is a video-based learning experience led by NASM Master Instructors, Ken Miller and Wendy Batts. It covers the Human Movement System, Movement Assessments, the OPT Model, and how you use that information to develop Program Design. It also includes an hour long OPT Model Workout.
Successfully passing the final test with a 70% enables CPTs to earn 0.9 CEUs.
You'll have 180 days to complete the Certified Personal Trainer program, which can be completed in as few as four weeks.
You'll have 365 days to complete the Certified Nutrition Coach program, which can be completed in as few as eight weeks.
The exam is administered online or in-person at an approved testing center, giving you flexibility in how you complete your certification. Both options are secure, proctored, and designed to ensure a fair and professional testing experience.
Both the Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Nutrition Coach credentials must be renewed every two years.
The Certified Nutrition Coach program is worth 1.9 NASM Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
The CPR/AED Certification program is worth 0.1 NASM Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
The CPT Practical Skills Workshop is worth 0.9 NASM Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
