The NASM Performance Enhancement Specialization (NASM-PES) equips fitness professionals with advanced strength and conditioning knowledge to improve clients’ flexibility, speed, agility, and overall performance. Through 16 comprehensive modules and evidence-based training methods from the OPT™ Model, you’ll learn to design effective programs for athletes and clients of all levels, advance your career, and maximize your clients’ peak performance potential.
Onsite at Mudarrib Company
Approximately 30 Teaching Hours
The ability for applying the exam during 1 Year
Help your clients reach their peak performance by improving flexibility, speed, agility, and strength. With NASM’s Performance Enhancement Specialization (NASM-PES), you’ll learn how to deliver advanced strength and conditioning programs for clients at all levels.
This 16-module program provides the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed for Sports Performance Professionals to enhance clients’ speed, agility, quickness, strength, and more. Completing this specialization allows you to advance your career, attract high-performance clients, and guide current clients to reach their maximum potential.
With the Premium Self-Study and All-Inclusive packages, you’ll also gain access to exclusive bonus content and a comprehensive programming toolkit. Bonus content includes weight room maintenance and management, plus sport-specific lecture videos for football, baseball, and basketball. The programming toolkit includes nine sample programs, a youth programming manual, and a program generator.
The NASM-PES was originally developed as the sixth phase (Maximal Power) of the Optimum Performance Training (OPT™) Model, giving you a performance program built on evidence-based research, systematic progression, and integrated exercise programs. You’ll learn how to apply the OPT™ Model methods to effectively enhance clients’ strength and conditioning.
This program is ideal not only for personal trainers but for anyone working with athletes to improve performance on the field, court, or ice. Specializing in performance enhancement can also expand your earning potential and professional opportunities.
Key Knowledge & Skills Gained
Professional Benefits
You will have 1 year (365 days) days from the date of enrollment.
Once you pass your final exam, your NASM-PES never expires and does not require you to renew.
While a Personal Training Certification is suggested, it is not required to take the NASM-PES course. To participate, it is recommended you hold a CPT, accredited health or fitness certification, a 4-year college degree in a similar field, or be a current Certified Massage Therapist.
Unfortunately, no. The NASM-PES exam is not available for a la carte purchase
The final exam is administered online within your student portal. It consists of 100 multiple-choice questions and 90 minutes for completion.
NASM-PES is approved for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the following organizations:
NASM: 1.9 CEUs
ACE: 2.0 CECs
CIMPSA: 10 CIMSPA Endorsed CPD Points
Although it is not required, it is recommended that candidates have at least one of the following credentials:
NASM-CPT certification Certified Sports Nutrition Coach Certified Massage Therapist NCCA, NBFE or DETC Accredited Health/Fitness Certification 4-Year College Degree REPs Level 3 or higher (int'l)
The student will be able to identify the principles of integrated training and explain the components, scientific rationale, and evidence.
Identify key biomechanical terminology and topics, and explain functional anatomy as it relates to integrated sports performance training.
Describe the components and function of an integrated sports performance assessment, and identify methods for determining athlete readiness to perform.
Explain the scientific rationale for the use of an integrated flexibility-training program.
Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic energy systems and describe the importance of the role of the metabolic energy system training in improving sports performance.
Explain the importance of the core musculature and its relationship to performance enhancement.
Describe the role of balance training in improving sports performance and injury prevention.
Describe plyometric techniques and their purpose in performance enhancement and injury prevention.
Understand speed, agility, and quickness (SAQ) techniques and their purpose in performance enhancement and injury prevention.
Describe the role of resistance training in improving sports performance and identify the stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
Explain the rationale for the use of the Olympic lifts in improving performance.
Identify the acute training variables within the Optimum Performance Training® (OPT™) model.
Identify strategies for injury prevention and common injuries related to physical activity.
Explain the limits of nutritional advice under the scope of practice, and describe pre- and post-exercise nutrition strategies.
Identify common substances used to enhance performance, ergogenic foods, and analyze ethical and legal issues related to the use of ergogenic aids.
Explain performance psychology and its role in achieving athletic excellence.
After the completion of the course, you will take an online final exam from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you prefer to take tests, that consists of 100 questions. Each question will be multiple-choice. The exam is timed and cannot exceed 90 minutes. To pass, you need a score of 70% or higher. Don’t fret though, if you score below that, you have up to 3 attempts to pass.
