ISSA Sports Nutrition Certification

Hi everyone! Another gorgeous weekday spent inside the arctic office here in Maine. Its days like this when I think about how great it will be to one day grow my personal training business into a full-time gig and be spending these sunny afternoons sitting outside creating workouts and diet plans for clients. There must be temperature-controlled laptops and glare screens by now right?

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So, speaking of training, my ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer expires this winter and in order to keep it active I need to obtain 20 CEUs prior to then. Since I am currently out of good summer reading material, I decided to get a head-start on the process and signed up for the ISSA Sports Nutrition Certification course last night. I am so excited! Anyone who knows me at all knows that while I love fitness, nutrition is my #1 passion. There were two separate nutrition courses to choose from, this one and another called Fitness Nutrition. However, after reading the overview of each, the Fitness one sounded more generic and likely covered a lot of topics I already know inside-and-out. The one I choose is more specific in terms of learning proper nutritional requirements for athletes. This will be especially beneficial to me as a competitor as well! I feel well versed in the nutritional requirements of a bodybuilder at this point but I am looking forward to learning more about the needs of other types of athletes and the general fitness-minded population. I get a lot of friends who will ask me how they should be eating and I have a hard time steering away from my “Protein! Protein! Protein!” mentality LOL!

Have any of my readers ever taken this course or one similar? Has this benefited you as a trainer, competitor, athlete or general gym rat?