Courses Approved by ACE

Health and fitness professionals can earn continuing education credits with courses created by trusted providers in the industry. ACE has rigorously evaluated these courses to ensure the content is valuable to pros.

In order to maintain the integrity of our continuing education offerings, we've set standards that each course must meet to gain ACE approval. All courses must provide information that is within the scope of practice for ACE Certified Professionals, and must all be conducted in structured learning environments.

As an ACE Certified Pro, you can explore these courses with confidence and perhaps consider turning your newfound expertise into your own ACE approved course. For more information on submitting your course for ACE approval, call (888) 825-3636 or email support@ACEfitness.org.

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All ACE-Approved Courses By Exercise Etc

A Dozen Practical Activities for Seniors

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Age Appropriate Strength Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Ageless Intensity: High Intensity Workouts to Slow the Aging Process

  • Credits: 1.10
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Athletic Body in Balance

  • Credits: 1.50
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Avoiding Common Fitness Injuries

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Baby Boomer Balance

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Back Exercise

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Back to Balance: Core Strengthening to Reduce Fall Risk

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Balance & Fall Prevention

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Balance = Independence: Progressive Fall Prevention

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Beyond Cardio: Sweat Equity and Weight Management

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Big and Bold: Strength Training for Plus Size Women

  • Credits: 1.10
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Brave New World: Managing Fall Risk and Chronic Disease

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Chair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Designing Vertical Balance Programs

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Cheap Tricks for Trainers

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Cognition = Confidence: Cardio Exercise and Cerebral Blood Flow

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Complete Guide to Foam Rolling

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Complete Guide to TRX

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Comprehensive Recovery Strategies

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Conditioning to the Core

  • Credits: 1.10
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Core Training: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Core Workouts: From Outdated to Outstanding

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Defying Gravity: Balance Drills for Seniors

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Diet Lies and Weight Loss Truths

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Dynamic Balance & Mobility

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Embrace the Gray: Ageism in the Fitness Industry

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Empowering the Frail Elder: Fighting the Fear of Falling

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Exercise to Improve Neck & Back Function

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Facilitated Stretching (CC)

  • Credits: 1.60
  • Course Type: Self-Paced / Home Study

Fit to Move: Training to Prevent Re-injury

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Fitness Professional's Guide to Strength Training Older Adults

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Course Type: Self-Paced / Home Study

Forever Young: Secrets of the Older Mind

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Form & Function: Assessing Movement Patterns

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Full Body Flexibility

  • Credits: 0.70
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Function = Freedom: Integrated Core Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Functional Forever: Exercise for Independent Living

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Functional exercise During Pregnancy

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Functional Forever: Remedial Shoulder Exercises

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Functional Training: Myths & Mystique

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Fusion Workouts

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Good Knee/Bad Knee

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

High Intensity Interval Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

High Intensity Training: When Less is More

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Improving Cerebral Blood Flow: The Key to Cognition

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Integrated Postural Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

JC's Total Body Transformation

  • Credits: 1.10
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Kettlebell Training

  • Credits: 1.70
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Lift Weight to Lose Weight

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Living Fearless: Exercise, Balance & Core Strength

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Lower Body Conditioning: Transformative Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Lunges: From Routine to Remarkable

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Myofascial Release

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Course Type: Self-Paced / Home Study

Never too Late: Functional Core Training for Seniors

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Nutrient Timing for Peak Performance

  • Credits: 1.50
  • Course Type: Self-Paced / Home Study

Old Age is not Contagious: Ageism in the Fitness Industry

  • Credits: 0.10
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Perturbation-based Balance Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Planks and Bridges: The Foundation of Fitness

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Plant Based Sports Nutrition

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Polishing the Golden Years: Age-appropriate Conditioning Exercises

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Pulls & Rows: From Antiquated to Amazing

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Pure Power: Integrated Rotational Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Pushes & Presses: From Tedious to Terrific

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Ready, Set, Stop! Functional Deceleration Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Rebuilding the Base: Overcoming Movement Compensations

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Remedial Exercise: Restoring Function to the Deconditioned

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Restoring Hope: Exercise & Parkinson's Disease

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Retired, not Expired: Integrated Strength Training Drills

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Rotations & Hip Hinges: From Stodgy to Superlative

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Secrets of Strength & Conditioning

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Smarter Workouts

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Sports Injuries Guidebook, 2021

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Sports-inspired Balance Drills for Seniors

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Squats: From Essential to Exceptional

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Standing Tall: Exercise and the Aging Spine

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Step by Step: Gait, Posture and Deceleration

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Strength & Conditioning for Seniors

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Strength = Control: Age-Appropriate Conditioning Exercise

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Strength Training for Fat Loss

  • Credits: 1.00
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Strength Training Past 50

  • Credits: 0.90
  • Course Type: Self-Paced / Home Study

Stretching Anatomy 2E

  • Credits: 0.80
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

Strong Minds: Exercise & Cognitive Function

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The Ankle: The Biomechanical Marvel

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The Bionic Elder: Training with New Knees or Hips

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The Defiant Senior: Exercise to Manage Chronic Illness

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The Essential Hip: Reversing Gluteal Amnesia

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The HIIT Advantage

  • Credits: 0.80
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

The Knee: Top Trends in Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The Modern Art & Science of Mobility

  • Credits: 1.10
  • Course Type: Book | DVD

The Shoulder: New School Training Techniques

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

The Vibrant Senior: Putting the FUN in Functional Training

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Upper Body Conditioning: Innovations in Excellence

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Walk the Walk: Functional Ambulation Drills

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Walking Tall: Mobility Drills for Seniors

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Weight Management: Secrets & Lies

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

When Good Knees Go Bad

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Live Workshop

Women, Exercise & Metabolism

  • Credits: 0.20
  • Course Type: Book | DVD