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Health and Nutrition Life Coach Certification (Accredited) (Udemy.com)

Life Coaching: Create a Workout & Nutrition Plan Based on Your Clients’ Fitness, Weight Loss, Dieting & Nutrition Goals

4.4
5,962 reviews

Created by: Joeel & Natalie of Transformation Services

Last updated September 2026

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A life coaching certification with a health and nutrition wrapper, from Joeel and Natalie of Transformation Services, with Sanda Kruger as co-instructor. Six of the 17 sections cover coaching skills: behavioral change, goal setting, relapse prevention, rapport. The rest walk through anatomy, nutrition basics, client screening, fitness assessments and building a coaching package, in about 10.5 hours over 90 lectures. It suits people starting a coaching practice from scratch, not trainers looking to deepen their science.

Reviewers like the coaching and psychology material most. One calls every speaker knowledgeable and encouraging, another loved the self assessment approach, and the syllabus promises done-for-you client assessments to save setup time. The complaints sit in the one to three star reviews, roughly 18 percent of nearly 6,000 ratings. The videos are mostly presenters talking to camera with few slides, which visual learners find hard to sit through. One reviewer found Sanda Kruger's accent difficult, and several say the captions and workbook materials are full of typos. One noted a promised health history questionnaire was missing, and the nutrition section draws pushback for thin coverage and debatable advice.

The course was refreshed in September 2026, so the material isn't stale, though reviewers from 2020 through 2024 make the same complaint about the talking-head format. Next to the Complete Fitness Trainer and Diet and Nutrition Coach certifications on this page, this one is the coaching-first option: six sections on how to run a client conversation before any anatomy. Buy it if the business side is your gap. Skip it if you want nutrition depth.

Best forAspiring life coaches who want coaching techniques, ready-made assessments and a certificate more than exercise science.
Skip it ifYou're a trainer or nutrition pro; reviewers with industry experience call it a refresher that barely scratches the surface.

Pros

  • Coaching and behavioral change sections are the strongest, with practical exercises and client forms
  • Refreshed September 2026, with about 10.5 hours across 90 short lectures
  • Multiple presenters who reviewers describe as knowledgeable, professional and encouraging
  • Includes a case study and a short section on packaging your own coaching offer

Cons

  • Mostly talking-head video with few slides or diagrams, hard going for visual learners
  • Captions and workbook materials have many typos; one reviewer found a promised questionnaire missing
  • Nutrition section is thin and some advice draws pushback; industry pros call the whole course basic
This course is professionally done. Each speaker is knowledgeable, informative, helping and encouraging.
Michele Malenky, a student

Marked All Levels but really for beginners; the only requirement is a printer, and fitness pros find it a refresher.

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What you will learn

  • Develop a step-by-step nutrition and exercise program to use with your clients
  • Design a custom health coaching package focused on YOUR unique passions and experience
  • Receive done-for-you assessments and proven tools and processes to use with your clients, saving you time
  • Learn proven life coaching best practices: coaching models, personality theory, healthy psychology, professional life coaching communication techniques
  • Know human anatomy and physiology, nutrient density, macronutrients, micronutrients, and dieting
  • Screen clients, conduct the initial interview, and assess clients’ readiness, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, core stability, and nutrition
  • Identify the psychology of behavioral change and how to motivate your clients to achieve their goals and prevent relapse
  • Feel confident as a health and nutrition coach because you have developed a strong foundation both of theory and practical application

Course content

17 sections · 90 lectures · 10 hours of video 5 articles

  1. 1Introduction 3 free previews8 lectures · 23 min
  2. 2COACHING SKILLS: Life Coaching Foundation7 lectures · 35 min
  3. 3COACHING SKILLS: The Psychology of Behavioral Change 1 free preview7 lectures · 52 min
  4. 4COACHING SKILLS: Building Your Team3 lectures · 21 min
  5. 5COACHING SKILLS: Setting Realistic Goals9 lectures · 49 min
  6. 6COACHING SKILLS: Relapse Prevention5 lectures · 40 min
  7. 7COACHING SKILLS: Communication and Rapport8 lectures · 58 min
  8. 8HEALTH THEORY: HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR A HEALTH COACH6 lectures · 45 min
  9. 9HEALTH THEORY: BASIC NUTRITION AND DIGESTION FOR A HEALTH COACH7 lectures · 1 hour
  10. 10HEALTH THEORY: BASIC NUTRITION and SPECIAL CONDITIONS3 lectures · 31 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • You are a fitness professional, personal trainer, life coach, therapist, health care worker, holistic medicine practitioner or other professional who wants to add powerful nutrition and fitness life coaching tools to your toolbox
  • You are passionate about health, nutrition, and/or physical fitness and you want to become a health and nutrition life coach
  • You are (or want to be) a LIFE COACH that focuses on health, nutrition, or fitness
  • Your clients are struggling with stress, burn-out, unhealthy habits, poor diets, or are out of shape and want to develop healthy eating patterns and a diet and exercise program
  • You want to help people enhance their well-being, improve their quality of life, prevent illness, and live a happy, healthy lifestyle
  • You want to learn proven processes and powerful tools for helping your clients reach their nutrition, fitness, and overall wellness goals
  • You want to become an authority and advocate for healthy living, fitness, and nutrition

What you need before you start

  • Ability to print workbook material

How it compares

Against the other 662 rated Udemy courses in Health & Fitness on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 17% of them
  • Reviews5,962#18 of 663 by number of reviews
  • Length10.5 hourslonger than 90% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 93% of them

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Course Description

*Top-Rated Udemy Instructor with 1,000,000 Students + Earn an Official Life Coach Certification*

  • Are you passionate about health, nutrition, and/or physical fitness?

  • Do you want to help people enhance their well-being, improve their quality of life, prevent illness, and live a happy, healthy lifestyle?

  • Would you like to learn proven processes and powerful tools for helping your clients reach their nutrition, fitness, and overall wellness goals?

  • Would you like to earn a fitness and nutrition certification and become a life coach?

Being healthy and living a happy and fulfilled life is the ultimate goal for billions of people worldwide, making it the perfect time to earn a fitness and nutrition certification by enrolling and becoming a Certified Health and Nutrition Life Coach.


IN THIS COURSE YOU WILL:

Learn powerful motivational techniques and hands-on practical tools to guide your clients to support their emotional, behavioral, physical, and nutritional wellbeing.

Develop a strong foundation of health theory related to human anatomy, nutrition, and physical fitness, so that you can be a confident and effective health and nutrition life coach through this nutrition certification.

Learn core, professional life coaching skills, such as how to develop rapport with your clients, work together to set achievable goals, and support them using powerful communication and questioning techniques and hands-on practical tools.

Learn proper interview and screening methods designed to help you determine a client’s needs and their readiness to change. Plus, you’ll receive detailed fitness and nutrition assessments to use with your clients, allowing you to develop a customized step-by-step nutritional and exercise program that will get them the results they are looking for.

Develop a strong understanding of the psychology of behavioral change so that you can help your clients get past self-defeating habits, avoid relapse, and overcome resistance so they can create lasting lifestyle change.


This fitness and nutrition certification program will give you everything you need to design your own health and nutrition life coaching package based on your own experience and knowledge and the areas of wellness that you are passionate about.

At the end of the course you will be a Certified Health and Nutrition Life Coach and you will become an advocate for healthy living, a health educator, and an active partner that helps each client unlock their potential through healthy lifestyle choices.


In summary this fitness and nutrition certification will provide the following:

  • This life coaching certification will assist you in creating a step-by-step nutrition and exercise program to use with your clients

  • This fitness and nutrition certification program will give you the tools to design a custom health coaching package that is focused and in alignment with YOUR unique passions and experience

  • Begin your fitness and nutrition life coaching practice with done-for-you assessments and proven tools and processes to use with your clients, saving you time, stress, and money.

  • This fitness and nutrition certification will also provide proven life coaching best practices, including life coaching models, personality theory, health psychology, and professional life coaching communication techniques.

  • You will also develop a thorough understanding of human anatomy and physiology, nutrient density, macronutrients, micronutrients, and dieting

  • Through this fitness and nutrition certification you will learn how to screen clients, conduct the initial interview, and assess clients’ readiness, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, core stability, and nutrition

  • Learn life coaching skills and psychological principals of behavioral change and how to motivate your clients to achieve their fitness, nutrition, and life goals and prevent relapse

  • This fitness and nutrition certification will leave you feeling confident as a health and nutrition life coach because you have developed a strong foundation both of theory and practical application.

  • By earning your fitness and nutritional certification you will also have the credibility that your clients are looking for by being able to say that you are a Certified Health and Nutrition Life Coach.


So, are you ready to help your clients transform their lives through health, nutrition and fitness? If so enroll now, we look forward to seeing you in the course!

Guarantee: We know you will love this course. However, we offer a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee if the course does not meet your needs for any reason. 


MEET THE INSTRUCTORS

This course is taught by 3 experts in the field of life coaching, fitness and health. Sanda Kruger is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, health life coach and professional dancer. She is a certified fitness professional and is the creator of two original fitness programs, called BellyCore® Fitness and AquaCor®. Joeel and Natalie Rivera have over a decade in the life coaching field and have trained tens of thousands of coaches. They have over 800,000+ students from 200 countries. They have a background in social services, psychology, education and as entrepreneurs. Joeel has a Masters’ in Counseling and is completing his dissertation for his Ph.D. in Psychology, with a focus on happiness.


THIS COURSE IS PART OF OUR MASTER WELLNESS COACH CERTIFICATION (ALONG WITH OUR DIET COACH, MINDFULNESS COACH, KETOGENIC DIET COACH, YOGA COACH + BELLYCORE FITNESS CERTIFICATIONS).

This course is also accredited by internationally recognized Continuing Professional Development Standards Agency (Provider No: 50134), and 20 CPD or CEU credits are available upon request. Details for how to request the official certification and optional 20 CPD/CEU credits will be provided at the end of the course.

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Instructor Details

Joeel & Natalie of Transformation Services

Joeel A. Rivera, M.Ed. and Natalie Rae are pioneers in the life coaching field and co-founders of Transformation Services – the leading online course marketplace for life coaching, personal development and entrepreneurship. They’re the only life coach training organization in the world with 60+ niche coaching certifications, providing completely self-paced, done-for-you coaching programs offered at accessible prices.

They have PROUDLY served nearly 1,000,000 happy students from 200 countries and territories.

Using the science of psychology and human potential, they train leading edge entrepreneurs, leaders, and life coaches how to master their mindset and create a purpose-driven business so they can monetize their passion and live life on their terms.

Joeel A. Rivera, MEd: From an early age, Joeel faced adversity, including failing his first year of college and losing his brother to a car accident at the age of 19. This experience transformed his life and instilled a deep sense of purpose by inspiring him to give his brother Daniel's name a meaning by helping others find their true path. He returned to college, earning a Master's Degree in Counseling and all but the dissertation for his Ph.D. in Psychology, and later became a psychology professor.

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Reviews

4.4

5,962 ratings on Udemy

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By Chizor Adisa on 11/19/2025

I am discovering and rediscovering myself just by taking this course. I now understand why I behave in certain ways, plus it has reinforced my desire to go into the field of psychology. I am really interested in finding out people's motivation for doing what they do, and learning practical ways to help them to become better individuals, growing into their full potential.

By DeShaun Rawlings on 11/13/2022

4.5 due to it being accessible, concise, and neatly arranged only thing stopping it from being 5 stars would be when giving examples on the “How to” side of things maybe throw pop ups in a corner or visible examples of how to perform certain curriculum like how the mobility section showed demonstrations, do that throughout the entire course just so it’s understanding it’s unwavering clear. Other than that really enjoyed the course so cheers to you guys.

By Mariaan Joubert on 7/18/2022

Yes, I am a Pilates Teacher and also doing slimming programs and this course will enhance my career in exercising and motivating my clients to stay motivated. Glad I have started this course, as I do not have time for long courses , every day is very busy with all my classes etc. Only have an hour per day for extra learning. I have started over this year because of my busy program and glad I'm halfway, I want my certificate as a life coach by December, working for that goal. I already helping clients to lose weigh and reach there goals part of my work, 3 ladies at there goal weight losing 20 kg and more. Great satisfaction to help other people to reach their goals! I know I will be a good health and nutrition life coach it is my world I'm living in.

By Claudio Ignacio Estévez Montero on 11/3/2020

Very professionals. I learned a lot. The course is highly focused on the psychological aspect of health and nutrition, but the nutrition part is a bit skimpy. I would have liked to see more planning, like a calendar, calorie count, calorie budget, macronutrient daily distribution, etc. Still, I learned a lot about the right foods to eat, how to keep motivation high during diets, and other interesting aspects. Also, unlike other courses, these instructors are very good at answering the Q&A section.

By Darren Chaplin on 10/12/2020

Really interesting and useful information and a great balance between info regarding nutrition and exercise and actual coaching skills that can be utilised in general coaching as well. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to coach people with anything in their lives as nutrition and exercise is vital for other goals too Another great coaching course Thanks :)

By Buyi Lichaba on 7/11/2020

The instructors look confident and knowledgeable, this makes them trustworthy. This course is the best I have ever done with Udemy, the 3 facilitators are so brilliant, very engaging as if its a face to face class, and after doing 5 courses with Udemy, this is my number 1 and I applaud the 3 member team, very brilliant, thanks guys. I am certainly recommending this course to my fitness instructors friends

By Rhonda Dawkins on 1/17/2020

So Id just like to say that I have learned/retained a bit of information from these courses. There are things Learned that I never knew before, and so I'm very grateful to have this opportunity with Udemy. However, the people who they have assigned to speak in these instructional videos (especially one individual) continuously made errors during their speech. I believe that more editing should take place before producing these videos, just so that everything can remain professional. I was a bit thrown off many times, getting lost in the "um.....um.......um......um", during the speeches. I found it difficult to understand some of the material due heavy accents by one of the instructors. This has forced me to go on YouTube, searching for information relevant to the topic, just to get a better understanding of the lesson. Also, there are too many spelling errors in the worksheets that are provided as resources. Professionalism is key. I wish I could give a higher rating, as I absolutely LOVE to give great reviews! Just a little tweaking will make the program a little bit better.

By Dana Vance on 8/15/2019

Great information; knowledgeable trainers. Presentation, meh. No evidence of knowledge of or any attempt to present the information in a way that addresses learning styles. Very few visuals, lots of reading from scripts, low energy, and basic lecture. This course would be phenomenal if I could give you some presentation training. haha If you, like me, are an adult and take responsibility for your learning despite a lackluster presentation, this course will meet your needs. There's a lot of top flight information here. If you are a visual or tactile learner, you will not enjoy this course. That being said, if good information from knowledgeable coaches is your only requirement, you will find that in this course.

By Adina Verrett on 11/13/2018

This was what I have been looking for just to define this coaching process more. I have a medical background and approach client care in a particular manner and so I wasn't sure how to apply what I already know or whether I needed to modify how to approach client sessions as a consultant. Also didn't want to miss something in my assessments. There is a lot of info to organize but I can see better how the pieces can be fit together to make sure I hit these key points. Thank you for this course.

By I. Lewthwaite on 9/13/2018

I am glad I took this course. All 3 instructors are great! Sanda you are wonderful at presenting and in details. I love the fact there is case study to show how it works in really life. I highly recommend this comprehensive course not only on health and nutrition but on everything in connecting with the clients. thoroughly enjoined it. THANK YOU.

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Health and Nutrition Life Coach Certification (Accredited)
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  • Video Duration: icon 10.5h
  • Price: $149.99
  • Provider: icon Udemy
  • Updated: icon September 2026
  • Level: All Levels All Levels
  • Language: icon English
  • Certificate: icon Yes
  • Lectures:90 in 17 sections
  • Students:24,700
  • Subtitles:2 languages
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