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You ask a great question.
My plan is to take the bridging course and then the advanced certification. It's my understanding that the bridging course covers the materials that are different from typical certifications, so that a trainer certified with ACE / NASM etc can have the additional base knowledge to move into the advanced certification.
One thing I'm particularly fond of is Gary Gray and his son's functional nomenclature language that PTA Global professionals use to describe a body's position in 3 dimensional space. That's one difference for sure. Neither my ACE nor my NASM materials use the nomenclature. I think you could probably learn the nomenclature in a workshop (there was an IDEA pre-convention with the Grays a few years ago).
My plan is to take the bridging course and then the advanced certification. It's my understanding that the bridging course covers the materials that are different from typical certifications, so that a trainer certified with ACE / NASM etc can have the additional base knowledge to move into the advanced certification.
One thing I'm particularly fond of is Gary Gray and his son's functional nomenclature language that PTA Global professionals use to describe a body's position in 3 dimensional space. That's one difference for sure. Neither my ACE nor my NASM materials use the nomenclature. I think you could probably learn the nomenclature in a workshop (there was an IDEA pre-convention with the Grays a few years ago).
I teach most of the materials out there. Though, I haven't checked into Global. There are, in general, few real differences. ACSM seems to value teaching ability more than most. NASM and NSCA, focus on nuts and bolts more. But what is most important in my opinion, is finding areas that each individual has the most interest in and developing those skills and abilities. If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.
I personally can't stop learning and researcing. If I won some lotto or something, I would just study and train more than I already do. Which is kind of scary, now that I think about it.
I personally can't stop learning and researcing. If I won some lotto or something, I would just study and train more than I already do. Which is kind of scary, now that I think about it.