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Get dotFIT Certified

By completing the dotFIT Certification, you'll be able to deliver an approved* evidence-based nutrition solution tailored to help clients achieve their fitness goals. You'll learn how to create a customized nutrition/fitness program, monitor client intake, activity level, and progress using the dotFIT online platform.

This 4.5-hour certification simplifies and demystifies the basics of nutrition and common misconceptions, including proper use of dietary supplements.

This course is approved by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA). Registered Dietitian Nutritionists earn 4.5 CPEUs as approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Course Content

  • Nutrition
    • Guidelines made simple including frequently asked questions
    • Interactive video tutorial on menus and logging food
  • Activity
    • Workout builder and activity tracking, including connecting wearable devices and third-party apps
  • Dietary Supplements
    • Industry overview and the impact of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
    • The dotFIT difference
    • Protein and protein powders
    • Evidence based health, weight loss and muscle gain supplements
  • Coaching Tools
    • Client monitoring for success and administrative processes

Course Objectives

Upon successful course completion, Fitness Professionals will:

  • Identify the inseparable connection between nutrition and exercise for fitness and weight control goals, but most importantly, recognize how fitness professional should be the one to integrate a viable nutrition component to enhance their client’s desired fitness outcomes while remaining within their scope of practice. Clients who require medical nutrition therapy are referred to a staff and/or local registered dietitian nutritionist.
  • Become dotFIT Worldwide affiliates with exclusive ongoing access to nutrition and exercise resources including coaches, registered dietitians and sports nutrition experts; lifelong discounts on evidence-based and third party tested nutritional products; personal business, career and financial growth opportunities, and domestic and international job opportunities throughout the sport and fitness industry.
  • Identify the current regulatory framework of dietary supplements in the United States and the risks of mass market supplements. Identify evidence-based dietary supplement ingredients and the components of a practitioner product. 
  • Recognize the key health role they can play in society by including a simple, authentic nutrition component in client programming and embrace the responsibility to do so, making them a more sought after Sport & Fitness Professional than their exercise instructor peers.


*The dotFIT program is compliant with North Carolina regulations. The North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition (NCBDN) provides standards for safe weight control programs. dotFIT has adopted these standards for its online nutrition and fitness program which assures we meet or exceeds the strictest standards in the U.S. for nutrition/weight control programs administered by individuals (e.g. athletic, fitness, personal trainers, etc.) who are not necessarily licensed nutrition  professionals such as dietitians.

How To Access the Course

Click here to start the course

To log back into the course follow these steps:

Click on the left side navigation icon to expand the menu as seen below:

 Click "Certification" in the navigation menu:


 A new window opens to the course:


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