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Educating Fitness Professionals
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Founded in 1996, the Academy of Personal Training Education is an education, certification, and continuing education organization that provides comprehensive, practical, hands-on, science-based education and specialized content certification for aspiring and accomplished health and fitness professionals.

Educating a Professional Community of Thinkers.

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous. Howard Gardner

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Lift Mechanics .34

  • In-Person Class

Presenter: John Petrizzo

This course goes beyond mere exercise demonstrations. We will guide you through the underlying biomechanical principles that form the foundation […]

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