Expand your impact with mobility expertise. This specialization trains you to enhance flexibility, reduce injury risk, and boost performance, making you a go-to resource for recovery.
The Stretching and Flexibility Coach specialization prepares fitness and health professionals to support clients through individualized flexibility training that improves mobility, range of motion, and overall movement quality.
Through this course, participants will learn how to create safe and effective stretching routines that help clients move better, feel more flexible, and reduce injury risk. The program covers both assisted and self-stretching techniques, along with a deeper understanding of muscle and tissue structure to support effective flexibility training.
This specialization also helps professionals take advantage of the growing demand for stretching and mobility services, allowing them to expand their offerings and provide clients with valuable recovery and performance support.
The Stretching and Flexibility Coach specialization equips you to design and deliver safe, effective flexibility programs for different client needs. Key outcomes include improving mobility, increasing range of motion, reducing injury risk, applying assisted and self-stretching techniques, and supporting clients in feeling more mobile and pain-free.
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 to become a Stretching and Flexibility Coach, you'll get access to world-class fitness experts, your top choice of gyms to work for, and much more:
A fitness credential is recommended, but not required, for the Stretching and Flexibility Coach program. NASM offers a wide variety of nutrition programs that can help to augment and prepare you for this program.
You can complete your Stretching and Flexibility Coach in as few as two weeks. In addition to its interactive multimedia-rich content, learning tools, resources, and comprehensive study-planning guide, you can also receive assistance from NASM experts when questions arise.
A Stretching and Flexibility Coach is a specialist who creates personalized stretching programs to prevent injury and increase the flexibility of clients. They are experts in progressing individuals to peak stretching performance.
Absolutely! You can complete the Stretching and Flexibility Coach program while also working full-time. The study material is 100% online and self-paced, and can be accessed on a computer, or a mobile device such as a phone or tablet.
The Stretching and Flexibility Coach exam is taken online inside your customer portal. You'll have 365 days from the date of purchase, to study and complete the exam. This exam features:
This course is worth the following CEUs:
Don't worry! You'll have three attempts to pass the exam, and you can purchase additional retests.
No. Once you pass the exam, your Stretching and Flexibility Coach credential with NASM will never expire.
