If you want to instruct group exercise or aerobics class EXCLUSIVELY, than a GX cert is adequate. Down the road you may want to pursue a personal training cert. Of all the aerobics instructors I have hired in the past, most had a ACE, NDEITA, AFAA group certification. The common denominator in all of them was a passion to help people and become the nucleus of a support sysytem.
Most, if not all, did get a PT cert later in their career simply becuase more GX instructors are approached for one on one stuff by participants and they wanted to learn more about anatomy and exericse programming. Most GX certs touch upon that stuff, but the coursework usually is made of cardio respiratory programming, choreography, and safefty,
Hope this helps.
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John Izzo, NASM-CPT, PES
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