Episodios

  • Symptoms of Overtraining
    Dec 3 2025

    Being able to recognize signs and symptoms of overtraining is part of injury prevention and reflected on your CPT exam. Additionally, this is valuable information for a practicing personal trainer to make sure they're able to differentiate between overtraining or lack of compliance.

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    12 m
  • Squat Movement Patterns
    Dec 1 2025

    The movement pattern of a squat is critical for your success on a CPT exam. Nailing this information helps you with human anatomy, fitness assessments, exercise technique, and program design. In this episode we break down the roles different muscles play in a squat motion to make answering these types of questions on your exam a breeze.

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    14 m
  • Pushing Movement Patterns
    Nov 19 2025

    Knowing movement patterns unlocks so many questions on your CPT exam. It's part of NFPT's Core 4 learning model and in this episdoe we dive into the push movement patterns. You'll get the critical details including joint motions, muscle synergies, common movement impairments, and how vary a simple push exercise to answer test questions correctly and keep your clients seeing results.

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    12 m
  • Program Design Sample Question Walk Through
    Nov 12 2025

    Program design is a big part of your CPT exam, but you likely already intuitively know most of the answers. In this episode, Erin walks you through a sample program design question and answer options. You'll see how to rule out the incorrect answers, leaving you with the only correct answer.

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    8 m
  • NFPT Learning Model
    Nov 5 2025

    In this episode, NFPT highlights their learning model and how it helps them achieve the highest pass rates in the industry. Erin explains the critical CPT content anchors that sheds light on the difference between memorizing information to pass versus having contextual understanding that gives you greater confidence in taking your personal trainer exam and working with clients.

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    6 m
  • Beginner Assessment Question
    Oct 29 2025

    In this sample assessment question episode, NFPT talks through how to select the "best" answer on a CPT exam when it seems as though there could be more than one correct answer. Assessments are critical to a new personal trainer and therefore you'll see plenty of these types of questions on your personal trainer test.

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    7 m
  • Simple Muscle Fiber Question
    Oct 22 2025

    NFPT breaksdown a sample test question in this epsidoe on muscle fiber types. Erin gives you the question and reads from a list of answer options, helping you methodically rule out the incorrect answers leaving you with only one viable correct answer.

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    7 m
  • NFPT Learning Model
    Oct 15 2025

    In this episode, NFPT highlights their learning model and how it helps them achieve the highest pass rates in the industry. Erin explains the critical CPT content anchors that sheds light on the difference between memorizing information to pass versus having contextual understanding that gives you greater confidence in taking your personal trainer exam and working with clients.

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    10 m