Hosting an IFA Fitness Certification Seminar


Interested in conducting your own IFA Fitness Certification Seminar? Want to provide other's with fitness information?

You can host your own IFA Fitness Certification Seminar on your own time, in any venue you choose, single or multiple day seminars, and to supplement your income.

Advantages of hosting your own IFA Fitness Certification Seminar:

  • No gym or equipment required
  • Large volume consolidated training
  • One day training sessions
  • Minimum travel required
  • Usually done on weekends or evenings
  • Great potential for income
Hosting an IFA Certification Seminar


Requirements for hosting your own IFA Fitness Certification Seminar:

  • IFA does not conduct the seminar - IFA instructors conduct the seminars.
  • You must be a current IFA certified instructor.
  • IFA materials are to be used for each seminar.
  • IFA Instructors are responsible for every aspect of the seminar:
    • Aquiring the venue - A local gym or any venue that provides a fairly quiet and uninterrupted environment such as community centers, conference rooms, aerobic and cardio exercise rooms when not scheduled.
    • Setting Dates and Times - Seminars can last for a single afternoon or a few days.
    • Costs of printing materials - Manuals and Exams
    • Choosing subjects for the seminar - Such as Personal Trainer & Group Fitness, Sports Nutritionist, Senior Fitness, and/or Aqua Fitness.
    • Submitting exams to IFA - You can mail in exams to IFA or direct your attendees to www.ifafitness.com to take their exam.
    • Submitting payments to IFA - You can mail in payment to IFA or call us at 407-579-8610 so we may provide you with a payment link for PayPal or STRIPE.

Fitness Certifying Seminars

Click to Download Flyer Certifying seminars are conducted on a variety of subjects such as group fitness, weight training, nutrition, etc. Most people do not know the basics about fitness, exercise and nutrition. A reminder, remember, unless you are a registered dietician or licensed Nutritionist, you cannot provide individual meal plans. You can provide information on what foods to include in maintaining a healthy life style and what to avoid or minimize. You should not counsel the clinically obese without working under the direction of a medical professional.

To conduct an IFA seminar, you will be using the entire IFA Manual, which will require that you supply your attendees with a full printed copy or a PDF electronic copy of the manual and exam. The purpose of this seminar is to prepare your attendees to take one or more of the IFA exams: Personal Trainer & Group Fitness, Sports Nutritionist, Senior Fitness, and/or Aqua Fitness.

IFA Instructors world-wide are currently conducting IFA seminars varying in duration from an afternoon to a full week. The amount that you charge your attendees will depend on the length of the seminar. Seminar fees that you charge will include your individual fee that you set plus IFA's certification fee. IFA has two pricing options, $175 for a digital Adobe™ PDF copy or $200 for a printed copy. For example, if you want to charge your attendees $100 each, then add the certification fee for the PDF copy to your fee ($175 + $100) and charge your attendees $275 for the seminar.

Use our Fitness ABCs manual in your seminar by downloading the PDF copy from the download page, then print out the number of copies required for your attendees. We have provided seminar flyers available for you to download. You can download them here and fill in the specifics of your event.

Once the seminar is conducted, you will have the option to administer the exam of choice either online at our website or by using the printed copy available from our download page.

If you decide to send in each test for grading, you will need to include the standard certification fee for each certification. Click here to download and print test exams for your attendees. We will then grade the tests and issue the certification materials in one package for you to distribute to your attendees. Prospective instructors who have failed the test, can resubmit a corrected test at anytime. Failed tests should not be given back to the prospective instructor. We return failed tests for your records. You will then be provided with a project code for your seminar.

ONLY IFA may grade the tests and ONLY IFA may print certification materials.

If you choose to have your attendees take the IFA exam online at our website, please contact us for a project code that can be assigned for your attendees. This project code will aid IFA in knowing which certification exams are from your seminar. Then direct your attendees to www.ifafitness.com to take their exam. Since they attended a seminar, they can go straight to --Step 2-- "Take Certification Exam Now". Exams taken online are graded immediately and scores are sent to the email entered on the exam. Prospective instructors who have failed the test, can resubmit a corrected test online at anytime. Once all exams are submitted online and payment for each exam has been recieved by IFA, the certification materials will be issued to you in one package for you to distribute to your attendees. ONLY IFA may print certification materials.

On request, IFA Certificates can be issued with your company name at the bottom as "Sponsored by: Your Company Name". Be sure to request this option BEFORE we issue the certificates. If you are with GNC or Nutrishop, your Project Codes have already been assigned. Call us if you need them.

If you have any questions or need help in getting your first seminar started, you can contact us directly by email or by calling 407-579-8610. We have much experience in working with hosting seminars and have, therefore, probably encountered many of the questions already.

To conduct a successful seminar:

  • Decide what subject(s) you will include in the seminar
    • Will you be certifying them for Personal Trainer & Group Fitness, Sports Nutritionist, Senior Fitness, and/or Aqua Fitness?
  • Develop an overview of topics for reference.
  • If you do not have a facility, contact a gym or venue space and make an offer for seminar space.
  • Print up flyers that both you and the gym can post (download flyers here).
  • Print up the appropriate number of seminar materials and a few more for late comers.
  • Using your overview, begin the seminar by introducing yourself and what you plan to accomplish today.
  • Provide the seminar attendees with the exam or direct them to www.ifafitness.com to take their exam.
  • Provide IFA with payment for each certification exam.
  • You will have then successfully conducted an IFA Fitness Certification Seminar!