IPTA - International Personal Trainer AcademyReviews of traineracademy.org

IPTA made the process really straight forward - great customer service and easy to follow instructions. The content was very easy to understand and engage with. A first class experience!

IPTA has been great. Compared to other Certified Personal Trainer certifications, this is SUPER inexpensive. The training material is free too! There were some growing pains as they were getting their accreditation, but they have gotten better with practice. I highly recommend IPTA. The biggest downfall is some hiring people don't recognize the name yet.

Earning my certificate through IPTA was pretty efficient and affordable. Learning from their textbook manual on all the information needed to pass the CPT exam helped me achieve passing the exam the first time. Even though it is relatively newer CPT, it was much easier to get certified than others.

I had such a seamless experience getting certified through IPTA! The interface on their website is super user friendly and straight forward. One thing that really helped me is how easy it was to get assistance with their convenient AI chatbox readily available on their site. I am currently revisiting IPTA to renew my certification and the process couldn't be easier!

IPTA Certified CPT! It was an easy and fun experience passing my IPTA CPT Certification. The study materials are comprehensive and the exam experience was simple and easy!

The IPTA Certified Personal Trainer program allowed me to reach my goal of becoming a certified personal trainer. The process was seamless and made easier through a well organized study manual. Since becoming a personal trainer, I’ve also found what I learned while studying to be valuable. I was able to quickly apply things like setting up different types of programs, dealing with various special populations and conducting assessments. I appreciate what my IPTA certification has helped me to achieve.

It legitimately helped with my studying. However, the program isn't put together very well. Example; it allows you to create mock exams where you can decide how many questions and from which chapters or domains, I chose all domains at 50 questions, completed it, repeat the same criteria yet it gave me the exact same questions, I tried resetting 4x and again got the exam same questions. Another reason I provided 3 stars; I was billed Jan 7th and took the CSCS Jan 8th. I passed the exam. I requested IPTA to provide me either a full or prorated refund for January since I didn't need it anymore. They told me I'm not eligible for refund. Not the response I was hoping for, one that ensures I'll never use their services again, and a response that I will share with ALL who inquire about IPTA. Very disappointing.

As an IPTA personal trainer I’ve re-learned what exercise programming looks like. I was out of practice for 9 years as I was active duty Navy and just got back to personal training this past year. One lesson I learned was to be able to flex on the fly. Sometimes a client responds differently than one expects. I had to be able to adjust, and I was prepared for that. The IPTA CPT has basically restarted my personal training career. It’s given me a great foundation and has opened doors to group exercise opportunities as well. As far as impacting clients, I was able to work with 2 varsity high school soccer players. We worked on speed, agility, strength and power for 6 weeks. I pushed them to get uncomfortable doing exercises they had little experience with, and they took it on and improved each week. There was a notable difference in their abilities at the end compared to when they started. Through training the soccer players, I realized that my favorite population to train is athletes. Being an athlete myself, I find that I naturally relate more the clients than I would others. When I had trained clients 9 years ago, I wouldn’t have said this. I can honestly say the most enjoyable time I’ve had as a personal trainer was with the 2 soccer players.