The AFAA offers programs for personal trainers to stay current with the growing fitness industry, learn new fitness leadership skills, and improve his individual growth. It provides guidelines for quality and professional work in the fitness industry. It works with public and private organizations to promote the awareness of health and fitness education to individuals and communities.

The AFAA is now offering the following choices of certification and specialty workshops. Just to name a few, there are:

• personal fitness trainer certification,
• primary group exercise certification,
• kickboxing certification,
• step certification,
• kickboxing skills and choreography,
• practical skills and choreography,
• midlife fitness for woman,
• aqua fitness,
• senior fitness,
• indoor cycling,
• injury prevention and exercise progressions.

The AFAA exam includes a written exam and practical demonstrations. The written exam contains multiple choice and matching questions. In the practical demonstration, the applicant demonstrates his aerobic skills showing proper warm ups, aerobic exercise and muscle toning for different muscle groups.

Those who want to teach an aerobic class can certify themselves with the AFAA to further their career in the fitness industry. As an aerobic instructor, depending on what you teach, whether low or high impact aerobics, must be appropriate to the fitness level of the students. You need to know the challenges you are up against. You don't want to give the same workout to different age groups and different fitness levels. The music should be chosen wisely for the warm ups, the main exercise and the cool down. The AFAA gives approval of what you intend to share with the people who come to the class. As a certified personal trainer with the AFAA, you will be prepared:

• to challenge your students with new and different styles of aerobics,
• to keep them motivated to attend the class,
• to target areas of the body that need a little more toning and firming,
• to offer a fun and safe environment ,
• to gain ideas from different educators,
• to gain a knowledge of the human anatomy to answer questions from your students,
• to offer private classes with confidence,
• to teach different levels of fitness,
• to teach different age groups,
• and to offer different choreographies.

When you are certified with the AFAA, you have already established your credentials and can find a job at any gym. Clients like exercise with someone that they know is trained and certified. Keep in mind that it is almost impossible to teach aerobics every day for more than one class. You may want to consider teaching other classes such as yoga, pilates, and easier exercises.