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What is the NCES?

The National Council for Exercise Standards is an organization comprised of exercise, medical, and science professionals dedicated to establishing or re-establishing the highest standards found in the field of exercise and all of its related components (i.e., instruction, education, participation, apparatus, research, and philosophy). The foundation for the practices and philosophy of NCES are dictated by the classical sciences, applied engineering, principles of motor learning, logic, and rational thought.

Organization Profile

The National Council for Exercise Standards (NCES) endeavors to safeguard people who are interested in improving their physical health through exercise. We exist to educate the public and exercise professionals regarding "proper" exercise and to set standards of safety and effectiveness in order to protect the public from the dangerous and misleading ideas of the fitness industry. We differentiate two concepts: exercise and recreation.

The NCES will expose dangerous exercise practices and educate the lay person, as well as the fitness/medical professional, as to the application of safe and proper exercise principles. We have already begun to help people understand that much of what they hear and see with regards to exercise is fraudulent, and more dangerous than they realize. As the physician’s oath states: Do No Harm. We of the NCES agree. But we’d like to take this a step farther. The NCES oath to you is: Expose the harm and always help.

Our Mission and Objectives

To evaluate the current standards (or lack thereof), guidelines, recommendations, and practices of the fitness and orthopedic rehabilitative industry and, where necessary, refine, improve and establish higher standards and practices.

Specifically, its objectives are:

To establish ethical, high quality, standards of care and treatment in exercise instruction and orthopedic physical rehabilitation.
To educate health/medical professionals and the general public that properly applied progressive resistance strength training is the most effective and only necessary form of exercise.
To educate and promote the proper instruction and application of progressive resistance strength training.
To educate and/or re-educate and certify exercise professionals in the instruction and application of proper exercise.
To expose dangerous and/or flawed exercise and rehabilitative philosophies, methods, practices, research and equipment.
To educate health/medical professionals and the general public as to the differences between exercise and recreation.

Contact Information

The National Council for Exercise Standards can be reached through any of the following sources:

President -- Fred Hahn: (212) 579-9320
E-mail: fhahn@exercisestandards.org