Our mission is to bridge the gap between medicine and fitness by organizing the efforts of scientists, researchers, practitioners and health professionals, and integrating those efforts to provide resources, credentials and continuing education to people in the health and fitness industry.

About our Philosophy 

Fitness professionals seek credibility. The National Institute of Health Science leads the way with education based, higher learning center backed credentials. We’re not just another certificate program. The NIHS believes that education and learning never ends. That’s why we have created a series of specialized subjects above and beyond personal trainer such as Shoulder Specialist, Hip Specialist, Knee Specialist, Soft Tissue Pain Specialist, Senior Fitness Specialist, and Back Specialist. We don’t provide you a single generalized certification. We continue to build your resume with dozens of specialized certificates in multiple disciplines in order to allow you to market yourself in a more proactive way. We at the NIHS can prepare you as a specialist in specific disciplines, or give you a firm eclectic base for use in the ever-widening industry of fitness

The current industry trends indicate that the present direction of personal training will be towards specialized training and health care reform. In order to be a part of this change, trainers will need to be able to provide better than "outstanding" care to those with limitations and health care challenges. Future trainers will need to not only provide quality exercise programming, but also be able to interact with physicians for proactive aftercare programming. Services will need to be offerred at a reasonable cost to insurance companies and patrons and trainers will be required to manage client information in a professional and confidential manner.

For trainers this means more education and expertise in fitness and health. It means the ability to prescreen client's for possible health problems and the ability to work with both physician and insurance companies for the reduction of health care cost. Yet to decrease costs you need to manage and act on information in a preventative environment. That requires a better education than a single personal training certificate can supply.

For personal trainers the horizon appears ripe and exciting; but only for those who are prepared academically to work with the larger portion of the population, the baby boomers and seniors. Working with these groups will be far more complex than working with the apparently healthy; it will require an understanding of health care and treatment, as well as the ability to interact with health care professionals. We have moved beyond the concept of exercise to grow a bigger bicep and into an era of exercise for the improvement of life skills and the prevention of disease. Are you ready? The future belongs to the trainers who have prepared for the opportunity by increasing knowledge, credentials and who possess an understanding of where the industry bar should be placed, not where it currently resides.