Courses
Inclusive Fitness Courses & Certifications for FitPros
Welcome to the BPFA Learning Hub!
Here, you’ll find a range of courses designed to help you build a more inclusive, body-positive fitness practice. Whether you’re looking for a quick introduction or an in-depth certification, we have options to fit your goals.
Some of our courses are NASM-approved for CEUs, and those that aren’t can be petitioned. Plus, you’ll have access to our interactive online community to keep learning and connecting with other FitPros.
We offer three levels of learning to match your needs:
- CEU Courses – Longer, in-depth courses that provide continuing education credits and a deep dive into inclusive fitness.
- Intensive Courses – Expanded training on specialized topics for those ready to build advanced skills.
- Express Courses – Short, 45-60 minute courses adapted from live webinars, perfect for quick learning.
Wherever you are in your FitPro journey, we have courses to support your growth.
CEU Courses
Coaches Corner Xpress
0.5 NASM CEUs
Start your journey to becoming an Inclusive Kettlebell Coach with Coaches Corner Xpress. CCX is an introductory online course for trainers, coaches and fitness professionals who want to build confidence...
- Lessons: 53
- $300
Onramp To Inclusive Fitness Practices
0.6 NASM CEUs
Body Positive Fitness Alliance brings you their Onramp to Inclusive Fitness Practices Course packed full of ways to reach and change the lives of a completely untapped market of individuals...
- Lessons: 68
- $299
Intensive Courses
Cultivating Anti-Racism
As a Practice in Your Inclusive Fitness Community
Led by BPFA Board Member Simone Samuels, you’ll study BPFA’s Eight Pillars through an anti-racist and intersectional lens. Learn actionable items that you can start using today to make your...
- Lessons: 48
- $99
Navigating Eating Disorders
Strengthening Confidence in the Detection, Referral, and Support of Clients with Eating Disorders
As FitPros, we often come across people who have complicated relationships with food. In this course, Registered Dietician and CSCS Amanda Tierney will help you confidently stay within your scope...
- Lessons: 29
- $99
Peace for PTs
Helping FitPros Build Strategies to Avoid and Undo the Damaging Effects of Chronic Stress
A guided exploration of your own practice as a Fitness Professional to help you build strategies to avoid and undo the damaging effects of chronic stress and instead create an...
- Lessons: 28
- $99
Quick Actionable Courses
Coaching Squats for All Body Types
Coaches Katie Feeley and Zach Stoughton return, this time to talk about Squats! Squats are among the most functional movements. We squat all the time in daily life – sitting...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Best practices for working with higher-weight clients and marketing weight-neutral fitness
BPFA Board Member Christine DeFilippis sat down with Speaker, Writer, Activist and Researcher, Ragen Chastain for a live learning seminar. As a leading voice in the body positivity and Health...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Empowering Your Marketing
5 Strategies for Body-Neutral Lead Conversion
Finding the balance between your body-neutral mission and effective lead conversion can feel challenging. You’re not alone in this struggle. Many of us grapple with aligning our inclusive values with...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Trauma Informed Coaching
Jess Brock-Pitts (she/her) MSW LCSW LCADC, ACE CPT/GFI, discusses Trauma Informed Coaching. Meet your instructor: I’m Jess Brock-Pitts, founder and owner of Enlighten Well LLC, and a gym class drop-out...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Cultivating Lifelong Athletes
This Live Learning is geared toward parents of kids who are considering or participating in competitive sports, and coaches who work with kids in this context. We’ll equip you with...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Your PCOS Client Is Not Ovary-Acting
A recording of Simone Samuels, B.A. (Hons.), J.D., B.C.L. discussing personal training considerations for people with PCOS. Simone is a Senior Advisor (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) at York University and a...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Putting Accessibility into Practice for Event Planning
A panel discussion about putting accessibility into practice in event planning, including action items to make your next event more accessible and approachable for all. Led by BPFA Board Members...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Ditch the Hierarchy
Strategies for Offering Layered Group Classes for All Abilities
Ivy Baron of Requisite Pilates explores some concrete strategies for moving beyond exclusivity in group fitness, Yoga, and Pilates classes.
...- Lessons: 2
- $10
The Union Makes Us Strong
This session was led by Becca Kirkpatrick, a personal trainer and lifelong union geek. She is a little bit obsessed with drawing the connections between body power and organized collective...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Building Teams and Partnerships
Kate Herald Browne sits down for a conversation with Katie Jones and Luca Lyons, owners of Ascent Fitness in Tacoma, Washington. Katie and Luca share their insights and experience on...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Coaching Handstands
Coach Emily Gercke introduces a framework for approaching hand balancing in your own practice or to assess a client. Discussion includes physical foundations and mental barriers to the handstand, safety...
- Lessons: 1
- $10
Going Out On Your Own
Asher is an anticapitalist with no background in business who will shared their experience becoming a self-employed personal trainer. Topics of this workshop include starting and staying small, building and...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Creative Solutions to Anti-Diet Fitness Tracking
The amazing Dr. Kate Herald Browne’s presentation about what it looks like to have goal-focused programming that doesn’t center dieting! Kate is a memoirist, speaker, educator, and activist who works...
- Lessons: 2
- $10
Coaching Deadlift for All Body Types
Deadlifts can be super intimidating and are often associated with injury or back pain. The reality is that deadlifts are one of the fundamental movement patterns – they show up...
- Lessons: 2
- $10