Education - Movement Sciences: Professional Associations

The Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) was incorporated in 1989 to provide a certification program for entry-level Athletic Trainers (ATs). The BOC establishes and regularly reviews both the standards for the practice of athletic training and the continuing education requirements for BOC Certified ATs. The BOC has the only accredited certification program for ATs in the US.

The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) is the professional membership association for certified athletic trainers and others who support the athletic training profession. Founded in 1950, the NATA has grown to more than 35,000 members worldwide today.

The Idaho Athletic Trainers' Association is an organization dedicated to advancing, encouraging and improving the athletic training profession in Idaho. The IATA is committed to ensuring professional quality care to the traditional and non-traditional athlete in the Great State of Idaho.

ACSM is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. With more than 50,000 members and certified professionals worldwide, ACSM is dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.

ACE's mission is to ensure people have access to well-qualified health and fitness professionals and health coaches, and science-based information and resources on safe and effective physical activity, so they may get active, establish healthy behaviors, and live their most fit lives.

The goal of AFPA is to provide fitness, health, wellness and nutrition distance education programs and certifications that are of interest to those in the physical fitness, health, wellness and nutrition industry by way of offering quality, reasonably priced, updated and new distance education programs and certifications.

Through the American Senior Fitness Association you can gain the most in-depth professional training available to senior fitness practitioners. You can also take advantage of SFA membership benefits including personal career promotion assistance. Or, simply subscribe to SFA’s respected quarterly publication Mature Fitness to keep up with the latest training techniques, senior-specific fitness research, and new videos, books and equipment.

The Aquatic Exercise Association (AEA) is a not-for-profit educational organization committed to the advancement of aquatic fitness health and wellness worldwide.

The International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) is a distance education institution and certifying agency committed to students' fitness education and professional goals.