National Healthy Educators (NHE) Certification Something Smells Rotten in Denmark Laguna Hills California

 All you need to do is to log onto Google Maps, add the physical address given for NHE (National Health Educators), and what you will find for 24001 Calle de la Magdalena #2219, Laguna Hills, CA 92654, is that there is a Medical Facility on one side of the street, and a Post Office on the other.  #2219 is apparently a post office box or mailbox number.  Please do this yourself so that you know that I am not trying to pull something.  The first clue that NHE is not legit, is that I've been in the fitness business for a dozen years, in fact I own a concierge fitness business, received my legitimate certification through NASM way back in 2003, and have never heard of NHE in my life.  None of my friends, some of whom have Master's Degrees in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, and Kinesiology to name a few disciplines, have ever heard of NHE.  All of us, at one time or another have trained super athletes.  Yet, none of us have ever heard of NHE.  A company who seeks out your resume on Career Builders, Monster.com, or any other job search website, and offers you a job that pays $6,200/mo or more in a management position if you just take a few of their tests is not legit. 

If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.  Not rocket science.  Another huge clue that NHE is not legit, is that if you contact NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine which is affiliated with the American College of Sports Medicine) they will tell you that they have never heard of NHE or if they have, it's been regarding recent complaints of email scams.  The fellow I spoke to said he has never met one single person who was certified through NHE.  So, if you need further evidence, please contact nasm.org.  They are a worldwide personal training certification organization and are very well known.  Most of the gyms that I have worked for before starting my own company would not even hire a trainer unless they were certified through NASM or would soon be certified within a few months of hire, and if you fell into the latter category, you could not have the word "premier" before your title.  The last clue that NHE is not legit is in their incredibly negative verbal retorts when you ask them for more information regarding their physical address, CEO's name.  If you are legitimate, you would happily give out that information.  Any prudent person would do due dilligence and research a company that is considering them for hire. 

In all emails regarding their legitimacy, if someone claims NHE is a scam, it is usually followed by a barrage of insulting, immature, unprofessional, and exceedingly abusive language.  A personal trainer who has any modicum of professionalism would never use such language.  These rebuttals are clearly people hired by NHE to stifle anyone who tries to reveal the true nature of the business, which is to appeal to your desire for a high paying job in the fitness industry, and then to send you on a wild goose chase trying to achieve that elusive certification.  A few people with advanced degrees in exercise science have actually taken the test and passed but never received a job or even a response.  Google NHE's physical address, and contact NASM.  That will clear it all up.