The most respected name in adult fitness since 1984.

 The Todd Smith Method of
Personal Training Certification

Course Description

There are literally a million different personal trainers in the United States today. Over 50% of the active trainers in America have some type of personal training or group training certification. While having a personal training certificate is definitely an asset on one’s resume, it provides almost no help in assisting an untrained, deconditioned individual to achieve great health, muscle tone, and improved posture. Over the past 37 years I have interviewed and hired hundreds of certified and non-certified personal trainers. The one common denominator amongst all the new trainers was that they lacked the ability to connect with, and articulate to, the mature adult about the form and function of each exercise prescribed in a training protocol. The Todd Smith Training Method will provide you a differentiated skill set that will allow you to make a profound positive impact upon each training client you work with.

 

The Todd Smith Training Method will provide you with the most effective strategies, coaching techniques, biomechanical expertise, and motivational tools to reach every person you train. TSTM isn’t a training system designed to help athletes jump higher, run faster, or for that matter perform any athletic endeavor at a higher level. TSTM is directly aimed at changing the lives of the following:

  1. Individuals that spend their days sitting.

  2. Individuals that look down at their phones all day long.

  3. People with sedentary jobs.

  4. People that have more money than time.

  5. People that have never exercised before.

  6. People that were very fit in their 20’s and are now in their 40’s or 50’s and want to get back into shape.

  7. People that have done Cross-Fit and are now too injured to continue.

  8. Runners that are too injured to run and need to fix their metabolisms and posture.

  9. Deconditioned people that feel uncomfortable navigating their way through a gym.

  10. People the need motivation, direction, and accountability.

Certification ObjectiveS

Provide instruction and demonstrate proper exercise technique.

  • Effectively coach individuals to get the maximum benefit from exercise in the least amount of time possible.

  • Assess the risk versus benefit on each exercise for each individual.

  • Understand the behavior patterns of clients and learn to manipulate their behaviors to maximize their results.

  • Identify professional standards and codes of conduct and ethics to maintain long term healthy relationships.

  • Learn concepts of anatomy and physiology, human movement, neurological pathways, and metabolic health.

 Responsibility:

The Todd Smith Training Method has a deeply rooted responsibility to share these training practices to as many passionate trainers as possible. TSTM is the only program that alters every life that it is properly applied to. Therefore, we must apply these principle and make a difference in as many peoples lives as we can!