Health & Fitness Resources
Fitness - Careers
There are many places for the personal trainer and fitness professional to look for jobs and plan their career search. While you can always visit mega jobs sites such as
Monster and
Hotjobs, there are more specialized job websites that focus on the fitness and exercise profession. The International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (
IHRSA) is an organization that promotes fitness through education and sport club membership and has
career resources for fitness professionals.ExerciseCareers.com has a free fitness job search tool and a place where you can post your resume, find wellness coaching jobs and look for fitness internships. FitnessJobs.com also allows you to post your resume and search for fitness jobs for no charge.
You can search jobs in health, fitness, recreation and sports at GymJob.com where membership is a free benefit of ACE certification. Another place to search for health club jobs in the U.S., post your resume and review salaries is at HealthClubJobs.com.
If you’re looking specifically for personal trainer jobs you can find them at PersonalTrainerJobs.com. A place to look for sports industry and fitness jobs is SportsCareerFinder.com
- Fitness - Magazines and Journals
American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Journal covers trends in the health and fitness industry and has accurate, unbiased, and authoritative information regarding exercise science and nutrition research for fitness instructors, personal trainers, exercise leaders and health and fitness professionals.
- Fitness - General
Article Health And Fitness where you can find information on feeling better and exercising.
ExRx.net is a exercise resource of nearly 1900 pages for the exercise professional, coach, or fitness enthusiast. ExRx.net features a comprehensive exercise instruction and kinesiology reference for exercise prescription with over 760 animated exercises demonstrated, described, and analyzed.
FitLink.com is a community of enthusiasts, professionals, club owners, event directors, equipment makers and everyone else interested in fitness.
FitnessDirectory.org
Fitness Directory
FitnessPros.com
Bodybuilding - Fitness Resources
Gimme20.com
The online 24 hour health community with fitness tracking, exercise clubs and nutrition forums, where people meet friends and attain their goals together.
HealthAndFitnessAdvice.com a web site dedicated to providing you with great information on all things health and fitness, while helping you invest wisely in a healthy lifestyle with the use of a professional fitness training program.
NetSweat.com
One of the oldest, continuously running fitness web sites.
Health & Fitness
NetWellness High quality information regarding Exercise and Fitness
Personal Training HQ: categorized resource directory for everything about personal training.
Yoga Movement is about finding yoga. Our goal is to help you learn about yoga and to help direct you to the best Internet sources for yoga information.
- Fitness - Professional Organizations
American College of Sports Medicine is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 20,000 international, national, and regional members are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.
International Health Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) represents nearly 9000 for profit health and fitness facilities and over 600 supplier companies in 74 countries.
National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)
National Council on Strength & Fitness (NCSF)
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) is the "worldwide authority on strength and conditioning," they "support and disseminate research-based knowledge and its practical application to improve athletic performance and fitness."
- Health - General
ADAM Health EncyclopediaHealth Illustrated Encyclopedia containing in-depth information, illustrations, and animations on over 1,500 medical topics.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AllRefer Health
American Heart Association
A national voluntary health agency to help reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
HealthOnlineDirectory.com
Health directory resources and information websites.
HealthyGreat.com - Web Directory for Health
Human Kinetics
A publisher of numerous sports and recreation resources including books and videos.
Medline Plus has information from the National Institutes of Health on over 600 diseases and conditions.
President's Council on Physical Fitness | Fitness.gov
The Fitness Almanac - An all inclusive fitness website with news, articles, services and a huge fitness super store!
- Personal Trainer Directories
GymPost
Premier Health Club Locator and Reviews
http://www.gympost.com
Personal-Trainer-Search.com has listings of over 10,000 personal trainers in the U.S.
Personal Trainers NYC
A New York City network of highly experienced certified personal trainers providing customized one-on-one diet and training programs. In gym or home.
the-fitness-directory.com
The Fitness Directory
Find a personal trainer, buy dietary supplements, vitamins, and discount exercise equipment at The Fitness Directory.
- Personal Training - Professional Organizations
American Academy of Personal Training (AAPT) is the premier Personal Training School licensed by the New York State Education Department in Manhattan.
American Council on Exercise (ACE) is a nonprofit organization committed to enriching quality of life through safe and effective exercise and physical activity.
American Fitness Institute (AFI)
American Fitness Professionals & Association (AFPA) strives to provide excellence in education that is both practical and scientifically up-to-date for today's Health & Fitness Professionals, & Enthusiasts. AFPA bases its certification training programs and correspondence courses on the most current principals in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine and Applied Human Nutrition.
AFTA Personal Trainer Certification We offer personal trainer certification and certifications as youth fitness trainer, female fitness instructor, sports nutrition, group exercise, senior fitness, club marketing, assessment, and other training certifications. We also have nutritional supplements.
http://www.aftacertification.com
International Fitness Association (IFA) is committed to providing fitness information to both Fitness Professionals and Fitness enthusiasts.
International Fitness Professionals Association (IFPA)
National Exercise and Sports Trainers Association (NESTA)
National Exercise Trainers Association (NETA)
National Federation of Personal Trainers (NFPT)
National Personal Training Institute (NPTI)
New Frame Association of Personal Trainers (NFAPT) offers convenient home study programs in Personal Training, Sports Nutrition, Aerobics, Pilates, and Kickboxing Aerobics.
Professional Fitness Instructor Training (PFIT)
Comprehensive training and certification programs and continuing education courses and workshops for an extensive array of health, wellness and fitness professionals.
- Personal Trainer Websites
Personal Trainer, Los Angeles, Personal Training, Online Personal Trainer, Online Fitness - Personal Trainer Los Angeles offers personal training for fat loss, diet nutrition, strength training, total body toning, stretching flexibility, health fitness by ace certified trainer California.
