Home Study Course / Online Study Course

To become certified by the Personal Trainers Association you must hold a HS diploma, an Associate or a Bachelors degree. Everyone is qualified to start the course of study.

If you are already an athlete and want to be recognized for your hard work, PROPTA will reward you. If you are a competitor from any sport and belong to any association, PROPTA will take that into consideration and reward you with an advanced level certification. PROPTA recognizes that you have put in a lot of hard work to achieve your status as a successful athlete.

you must first register for your application to be approved prior to the course of study.

Am I eligible for Personal Trainer certification?
The following eligibility requirements have been adopted:

• You must be at least 18 years of age
• You must hold current adult CPR and AED certificates prior to graduation

Course objectives:

• Business and personal training
• Understanding the human body
• Basic nutrition
• Muscular system
• Skeletal system
• Nervous sytem
• Cardiovascular system
• Protein
• Carbohydrates
• Fats
• Vitamins
• Herbs
• Insulin and Hormones
• Older adult training
• Legal issues

Course written Exams:

You can choose between taking the course exam questions online or by e-mail. You have 90 days from your registration date to complete your course. A score of 90% must be attained as a passing level.

Course Practical Exam:

All students must perform hands-on live proctored by a Professional Director/Examiner in a gym atmosphere.

Course responsibilities:

• Obtain a CPR certification
• Obtain Food Handlers Certificate
• Driver's License or passport copy
• 90 days to complete the course written exam
• 90 days to complete the practical exam

For failure to complete on time, a fee will be applied for an extension. You must be serious if you want to join the PROPTA team.

All materials and exams are included in the tuition. Please call our corporate office at 800-317-3577 for more information. Applications by phone are available.

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The Personal Trainers Association “PROPTA” online courses consist of an online component, which directs you through a series of learning experiences to help you understand and use the course content, and a variety of supplemental resource materials, including printed texts, PDFs, Web-based software, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs. (These vary by course, and not all courses include supplemental resource materials.)

The online component is not just printed material transferred into digital form. It gives you an opportunity to interact with the course subject matter in a way that will facilitate your learning. Many of our courses use virtual mentors to walk you through real-life experiences that require you to learn and apply the concepts featured in the course. We develop our courses by teaming up the best content experts with our instructional designers to create a powerful learning experience for you.

Our customers use our courses for a variety of reasons. They may use the courses for precertification as they study to prepare for a certification exam from a professional organization in their chosen field. Customers also may use our courses for postcertification continuing education from many professional organizations that require this type of ongoing learning after an initial certification is received. For each of our courses, you will see a notation indicating how many credit hours have been granted. Many of our courses are appropriate for course adoption by college and university faculty.

Finally, our courses can be taken for professional and personal development. Even if you are not required to take a course for CEUs or college credit, you will find a range of topics and skills that you can learn through our courses.

Q. How do online courses work?

A. Online courses are self-paced learning experiences. From the time you purchase a course you will have a set time to complete it. With every course purchase you will receive an email containing full course instructions. If the course contains a supplementary text it will be dispatched to you within 3-5 working days of the purchase unless otherwise notified.

Q. Will my online course be entirely online?

A. This will depend on which course you select. The course home page will describe the nature of the course and whether it contains a support material or if it is entirely online. Some support materials are texts, some are CD-ROMs or DVDs so it is important to be sure you have the system requirements to support this.

Q. How long do I have to complete the course and test?

A. Your online course will expire one year after the date of initial course access. Course exams must also be completed within one year in order to receive course credit (this includes retake exams). You will receive reminder emails when you have six months, one month, one week, or one day left to complete the course and pass the test.

Q. Can I open my exam and then close it and come back to finish later?

A. YES. All online courses worldwide are enabled to give you the convenience to log out and log back in at anytime to continue where you left off. Remember that the online course like any course offered by “PROPTA”  have a time limit. So plan accordingly to finish on time to avoid any late fees.

Q. Is my exam timed?

A. Yes the course and the exam are timed. Be sure to read the course description and instructions thoroughly to plan your time.

Q. How will I receive my test results?

A. After submitting your test, your test will be scored immediately and your test results will be e-mailed to you the next business day.

Q. What if I fail my exam?

A. If you did not pass the exam on the first attempt, you can purchase a retake exam. The retake fee is $50 (USD).

Q. Do I receive any material upon registration of the course

A. No you will not, all material will be included online for you to review, this applies only to the online course. If you decide to purchase the book with the online course, the fee is $99 US dollars.

but if you registered for the home study course, YES books and material will be sent to you to keep.You will actually receive the book, t-shirt, hat and other promotional items at no extra charge.

Q. I forgot my username and/or password.

A. Send an email to info@propta.com requesting this information.

Q. How do I contact  support?

A. Support for online courses is available Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time). To submit a support e-mail request please provide the following information:

1) The type of hardware you are using;

2) The operating system you are using;

3) The exact wording of the error message(s) or the message number(s) appearing on screen; and 4) A complete description of what happened and what you were doing when the error message         appeared.

Q. My question wasn’t answered here, what do I do?

A. If you still have questions or need additional assistance, please contact PROPTA office at info@propta.com  or by calling 818-766-3317   from  9:00AM-5:00PM   PST Monday-Friday.