From Student to trainer
Turn your passion for fitness into a career
Early Bird Pricing Available
Register for the next CPT Intake (Sept 8 – Oct 28, 2025) and become a certified trainer in 8 weeks!
Why choose BCPTI?
At BCPTI, we’re dedicated to helping you turn your passion for fitness into a successful career. Our personal training certification program combines the latest science with hands-on experience, giving you the knowledge and practical skills to excel from day one.
Since 2013, BCPTI has been empowering students to become top-tier personal trainers. Our NASM-certified, NCCA-accredited program is recognized worldwide, ensuring you receive the highest standard of education. With the demand for personal trainers higher than ever, we prepare you to thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused industry.
What you’ll get:
Comprehensive Learning
Gain in-depth knowledge of fitness science, assessment, movement coaching, and program design.
Hands-on Experience
Build your skills with practical training, real-world assessments, and peer practice sessions.
Career-Ready Skills
Learn to attract and retain clients with our proven “Service, Science, and Sales” formula—perfectly blending client care, training expertise, and sales techniques.
We’re proud to offer our students a top-tier learning program!
If you’re passionate about fitness and helping others, BCPTI is the perfect fit to launch your personal training career. Join us and be ready to make an impact in the fitness world!
Upcoming Courses & Certifications
Become a Certified Personal Trainer
Our 8-week personal training certification program both prepares you to write the NASM CPT exam and delivers hand-on skill development so you can gain, train and retain clients in today’s dynamic fitness spaces.
When: Sept 8, 2025 – Oct 28, 2025
Where: BCPTI Headquarters (5500 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC).
Save up to $450 off tuition
Early bird registration ends August 27th, 2025!
Hypertrophy Intensive
EFFECTIVE TRAINING DOESN’T REQUIRE COMPLEXITY.
IN THE WORLD OF HYPERTROPHY, BASIC PRINCIPLES
ARE KING.
The Hypertrophy Intensive empowers trainers to program, cue and coach their clients through hypertrophy focused programs and fosters a deeper understanding of the process of stimulus/response, not limited to hypertrophy.
We accomplish this by focusing on the pillars of Biomechanics, Resistance Mechanics, Exercise Selection & Program Design, Cueing, and Hypertrophy Nutrition.
This course encourages participants to think about hypertrophy focused exercise prescription & coaching, differently. Graduates leave empowered with a better understanding of biomechanics, exercise selection and program design as they relate to muscular hypertrophy.
When: Nov 15-16, 9am – 530pm both days
Where: Fitness World South Surrey Signature (15850 26 Ave #120, Surrey, British Columbia)
Cost: $699+tax Regular / Use discount code BCPTI_120 to save $120 off.
Hear from our students!
The professional instructors and program design is inclusive to anyone with a passion for fitness.
My experience set me up with tools to enhance my own fitness, as well as establish myself training others. I am a hands-on learner. This means that I require more focus on practical experience which is absolutely a privilege that BCPTI offers. State of the art equipment, spacious gym setting, and all of the equipment in house so that we get full exposure to fitness equipment.
Those who come to the program will get stronger themselves over the 8 week course with professional coaching one on one. My co-hort of 7 fellow students also provided me with valuable learning and motivation as we supported one another to “level up.”
I was challenged, and pushed by the instructors and students while also having fun!
I was able to connect with elite training instructors in class and during my 6 session practicum who have over 10 years of experience in many facets of fitness.
From basics to power lifting: explanations and instruction offered me a capacity to train any one from any level.
The program gave us specific instruction on methodical program designs, client’s goal setting, and up to date information on Sports Medicine. I can now take this approach out into my own career as a Fitness Professional.
BCPTI is a wholistic approach to becoming a certified personal trainer. Where everyone involved in the course has a true desire to be helpful.
BCPTI was by far the best educational experience I’ve had in my life. The course is thorough, hands on, engaging, and incredibly useful in giving you all of the tools to achieve greatness as a PT.
Brian & Kathryn are simply wonderful instructors. The best teachers I’ve ever had. As someone who has struggled with severe ADHD my entire life, and never ONCE had success with school, I found this course to be the only time in my life where I couldn’t wait to get to class in the mornings. I was blown away by the way the curriculum was taught, and the way that the instructors provided deeper insight into all aspects of personal training.
I cannot recommend BCPTI enough - if you are on the fence about whether or not to sign up I seriously encourage you to do it. You will have fun, learn loads, and be set up for a successful and fulfilling career as a PT when it’s over.
Student Success Stories
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Gustavo Chivata
Personal trainer at Fitness World Canada
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Lauryn Paterson
Personal trainer at Fitness World Canada
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Lucas Hermans
Personal trainer at Fitness World Canada