ISSA: online personal trainer, nutrition, yoga and Pilates certifications

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ISSA, the International Sports Sciences Association, is an online fitness education provider. It trains personal trainers, nutrition coaches, yoga teachers and Pilates instructors, and sells specialist courses for people who are already certified. Everything is studied online at your own pace: ISSA says your course opens on its learning platform as soon as you enrol, and most students finish in three to six months part-time.

It suits anyone thinking about a career in fitness, and trainers who want to add a specialism or earn continuing education credits. For the Certified Personal Trainer course there are two exam paths: ISSA's own open-book exam, or the NCCA-accredited NCCPT exam, which has a separate proctoring fee. ISSA also offers career support through Career Connect, which shares your profile with hiring partners, and a money-back job guarantee on eligible programmes.

Prices are shown as monthly payments with 0% interest. When we checked, Certified Personal Trainer was $59 a month over 18 months, the Elite Trainer bundle $85 a month and the Master Trainer bundle $120 a month, both over 18 months. Nutrition Coach was $52 a month and Health Coach $79 a month, both over 12 months. On the yoga and Pilates side, Yoga 200 was $67 a month, Mat Pilates $66 a month and the Pilates Instructor Bundle $85 a month.

There are short, one-off courses too, which make a cheaper way to try ISSA. Performance Nutrition Essentials and The Eight Limbs of Yoga were $19 each, Nutrition for Endurance Athletes $30, and Interval Training and Guided Group Meditation $39 each. There's a full range of courses in Spanish as well.

If you're not sure where to start, the homepage asks which sounds most like you: new and wanting to get certified, already certified and wanting to specialise, or needing to renew. Each answer points to a different set of courses, and there's a guide to becoming a personal trainer, a salary guide and a comparison of ISSA with other certifications.

What's worth a look

These six were on ISSA's homepage, with the prices shown when we checked on 6 November.

Certified Personal Trainer is the place to start if you're new, and the Master Trainer bundle matches the Master Personal Trainer bundle our codes below apply to. If you just want to sample the platform, Interval Training is a one-off $39 and comes with six ready-made workout templates.

Current offers

We have three codes for ISSA. WETHRIFT75 and 75HONEYMASTER each give $75 off the Master Personal Trainer Certification Bundle, and RECOVERY50 gives $50 off the ISSA Certified Exercise Recovery Specialist course. When we checked, ISSA's homepage also offered a new extended payment plan with $49 down.

How to save more

• If you want several qualifications, compare a bundle with buying courses one by one: bundles such as Master Trainer cover several at once.
• Apply your code before choosing a payment plan, so the discount comes off the total.
• Talk to an ISSA enrolment advisor if you're unsure which course fits; it's free and can stop you paying for the wrong one.

Products, prices and offers checked on the store's own website on 6 Nov 2026. Prices and stock can change.

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