IPTA - International Personal Trainer AcademyReviews of traineracademy.org

There are some inconsistencies within the material that can be frustrating. Overall if you have a fitness background this can help you pivot to being a trainer.

I don’t like how there’s no in person format. I feel to be a good trainer you need to have in person instruction.

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.

The website and program is riddled with typos and errors. After 2 months the system locked me out saying I didn't have an account with my email. When I contacted 2 days later, I had already been charged an additional month. They verified my account, gave me new sign in information and initially refused my refund. After continuous prompting, the representative pushed it through to someone else to possibly issue me a refund. I did end up receiving my refund from the second representative.

Overall pretty good. The information was great but the format was not user friendly if you aren’t on a laptop or iPad. Audio files had to be accessed through the website which made it hard to use while driving - a time I most needed them. The flash card app is great but the answers aren’t very in depth. It would be nice to have explanations to the answers when you complete the quizzes as the references weren’t helpful. Also, a section on how to solve all the equations would be great as that was hit hard on both parts of the exam.

I failed the first time but I didn’t grasp the concepts in full before moving on to the next chapter. I was passing all the tests and I religiously listened to the lectures and studied the chapters. I followed the 8 week plan. Ultimately I didn’t pass the first time then I changed over to the movement system study guides and videos and I passed with an 87 and an 81 on both. I loved how the tests and quizzes were laid out but they were just questions that were nothing like what the test were. They said if you fail you can get your money back but I responded to their emails three times to be automated back to a bot. If you’re studying for the CSCS I would use the movement system study materials instead.

I thought I'd let you know that I used your resources and studying methods and I passed my test with only having 5 weeks to study for my exam. I will say that none of the questions were similar to those of the test and nothing that studied was on the test but it did help to practice answering questions. A lot of stuff that was on the test i already knew from taking physiology and nutrition classes the previous semester.

The good: This program helped me pass the exam, which was the primary end goal. It was helpful to be pointed in the right direction with regard to what portions of the ACE exam I would need to focus on, since there are a couple pretty large textbooks. The bad: The program is very poorly proofread, if not un-proofread entirely. The flashcards feature has the potential to be the most helpful part of this academy, but unfortunately whoever authored the flashcards has the absolute worst spelling I have ever seen. It looked like it was thrown together in a hurry at 3am. Additionally, aside from being riddled with spelling and punctuation errors, I verified a handful of flashcards that were simply teaching incorrect information, and numerous quizzes with the correct answer being called incorrect, and a wrong answer being called correct. As you can imagine, discovering that the program you spent a large chunk of money on in order to pass a challenging exam has flaws in its own information made me pretty nervous about how effective of a study tool it was. Was I even studying correct curriculum or being mislead? Overall the academy did what it was supposed to do, and in the end I passed the exam with a 749 out of possible 800. I just wish the program was a little more polished and reliable in its content. I spent almost as much time correcting errors in the academy's content as I did studying.