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Master your physique and life with science-based strategies.
Achieve your goal physique & optimize your health. Never need a coach again.
Make evidence-based decisions about your career, relationships and where to live for optimal life satisfaction and happiness.
Learn to invest wisely and manage your finances for long-term security and maximum return on investment.
"Life-changing experience. This course really DELIVERS. After these 10 months I train differently, eat differently, look differently and think differently. The level of information provided is simply off the charts." - Aleksei*
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Achieve your goal physique and maximize your strength, without ever needing a coach again.
This course is ideal for serious lifters that want to reach their maximum natural muscular potential at a sustainably low body fat percentage.
Learn the science and apply it for proven maximum real-life results. You'll be ready to achieve your strength, muscle and health goals by yourself by building your own tailored diet and lifting plans.
These science-based strategies have helped thousands to get head-turning physiques, earning admiration wherever they go.
"Changed my life. I have trained with great world class coaches. The knowledge you will gain from this course is really mind boggling." - MiddleEastBarbellClub*
There's a lot of BS out there. Stop wasting your time and effort.
Get robust, evidence-based information to excel in life, without spending years researching.
Instead of spending years filtering through incorrect, outdated and contradictory sources on the internet, learn all the up-to-date science to master your physique and lifestyle in 10 months. Save yourself of years of frustration, trial and error.
"By cutting through the nonsense that floods the bodybuilding industry and using an evidence-based approach, I can honestly say I've learned more in the past months than the past years." - Joe Flaherty*
The course is divided into 3 sections
1. Master your nutrition & health
You'll kick off by learning how to study and do your own research. Then we deep-dive into the best way to diet for fat loss, muscle growth and optimal health. You'll be able to optimize your own diet plans and make them sustainable with our guides and calculators.
You'll also get a guide detailing the scientific evidence behind every supplement worth knowing. All the tools you need to get and stay lean and healthy are in here.
2. Master your training
In the second part of the course, you'll learn how to design optimal training programs for maximum muscle hypertrophy and strength gains.
We cover the science behind absolutely everything you need to know in the gym, ranging from a full exercise library to how to deal with injuries.
3. Master your lifestyle
In the final section of the course, you'll learn what the science says about how to choose your career, partner, investments and other answers to life's most important decisions.
We'll also cover stress management and sleep optimization.
Become the most knowledgeable, up-to-date and capable person in your gym.
This is the most comprehensive and scientifically-backed course available according to most people who have done Menno's courses. Updated weekly with the latest science, this course makes you someone people come to for advice. With just one evening a week you'll become the most knowledgeable, up-to-date and capable person in your gym.
"23.7 kg down, getting out of pain, and more! It gave me confidence to follow through on the recommendations and helped me gain clarity around the BS circulating through the health & fitness industry." - Gavin*
Master your lifestyle and excel in life.
Science is the best method we have to find out how to get your dream physique, but it doesn’t end there. Science can also help us answer many of life’s most important questions, such as where to live, whom to marry, and how to become wealthy.
In this course you will learn how to optimize your lifestyle to get the most out of your life. You'll learn what the research shows about choosing the right career, finding the best match for your romantic partner, starting a family, deciding where to live, and investing your money to build wealth with minimal effort.
"I am not the same person after having done this. The understanding of the body and how we can optimise its functioning will make you fall in love with it." - Kritika*
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Build wealth like the rich
Most people with an at least average salary should be able to retire a millionaire. That is not an exaggeration. If you can save at least $100 a month, you'll most likely become a millionaire before you retire, or you can retire early, if you follow this course's financial planning.
You'll learn the practices insurance companies, pension funds and banks use to make you feel good about using their services while they're usually the ones getting rich.
We'll cover financial planning and investing for the average individual that wants to build wealth securely with largely passive investments and for active investors that want to learn about factor and value investing, including active stock picking to beat ETF strategies.
Find your ideal partner
Most people select their partner based on their primal instincts. Women often fall for the wrong guys and men try to game their way into the pants of 6s while failing to find a high-quality woman.
Psychological research shows us what partner attributes really matter for relationship satisfaction and which traps to look out for. We'll also cover game theory (the economical models, not the manosphere bastardization thereof) and how to make yourself a more attractive partner (and not just physically).
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Learn from Menno Henselmans
The course costs $110 less than Menno's hourly consultation rate (299 USD) and Menno will answer all of your questions in the learning platform and monthly live Q&A sessions.
About the founder and course host
What you will learn
Master your physique and life with science-based strategies.
Energy intake
- Understanding human metabolism, incl. refeeds, set-points, metabolic
damage and the yo-yo effect - How to cut, bulk & recomp
- How to estimate your body fat percentage and track progress
Protein
- Individualized protein requirements
- Protein timing
- Meal frequency
Carbohydrates
- Requirements per type of exercise
- Carbohydrate timing
- Dietary fiber
- Carbohydrate tolerance
Dietary fat
- Requirements for your health and physique
- Understanding cholesterol
- Brown fat
Ketogenic dieting
- Understanding ketosis
- Effects on health, metabolism, appetite, performance and your physique
- Cyclical and targeted ketogenic dieting
- Measuring ketosis
- MCTs and exogenous ketones
Fasting and circadian rhythm effects
- Intermittent fasting & alternate day fasting
- Protein sparing modified fasting (PSMF)
- Circadian rhythm effects: timing considerations for the macronutrients
- Carb backloading
- Common deficiencies
- Bloodwork
- Multivitamins: problems and benefits
- The functions of each micronutrient related to your health and fitness
- How to fill in your micros
Health science and food choices
- What makes a diet healthy?
- Effects of food processing: freezing, microwaving, etc.
- Organic, wild and grass-fed: worth it?
- Low calorie sweeteners, sugar and dietary fiber
- Food choices for health and anabolism
- FODMAPs and digestive health
- How to recover from illness
Ad libitum dieting: how to lose fat and gain muscle without tracking your macros
- Hunger management strategies
- Physiological vs. psychological regulation of hunger
Supplements: a complete guide to every supplement worth knowing
Nutrition case studies
Understanding muscle growth & strength
- Mechanisms of muscle growth
- Systemic and local growth regulation: structural balance theory
- Strength vs. size
- Functional training
Program design fundamentals
Training intensity
- Effects on fatigue, connective tissue and the nervous system
- Strength vs. size
- The muscle-specific hypertrophy method
Training volume
- How to estimate recovery capacity
- Optimizing and individualizing training volume
Training frequency
- Interaction with volume
- Effects on recovery capacity
- How often should you train each muscle and exercise?
- How to structure your training split
- Estimating training status and maximum muscular potential
- Weak body parts
- Program optimization based on work capacity
- Program optimization based on DNA testing
Muscle functional anatomy: a visual guide
- What each muscle does and how to train it
- Ab training and spot reduction
Exercise selection
- What makes an exercise effective for muscle growth?
- Free weights vs. machines
- Compound vs. isolation exercises
- Accommodating resistance, bands and chains
- Recommended exercises and technique guide
- Counting volume: how much does a certain exercise stimulate a certain muscle?
- Functional differentiation and exercise variety
Exercise performance
- What is ‘good technique’?
- The mind-muscle connection
- Repetition tempo
- Proximity to failure
- How to breathe
How to structure your workouts
- Rest intervals
- Active recovery
- Exercise ordering
- Circuit training, supersets & more
Program design for women
- Sex differences
- Contraception
- Pregnancy
- Menstrual periodization
- Breast implants
Program design for the elderly
- Sarcopenia
- Anabolic resistance
- Neuromusclar changes
- Injury considerations
Periodization and progression
- Progressive overload and progression models
- What is fatigue?
- Cybernetic/autoregulatory, undulating and linear periodization
- Benchmarking and autoregulation
- Overtraining, overreaching and deloading
Advanced strength training techniques
- Forced reps and drop sets
- Reverse pyramiding, cluster sets and myo-reps
- Weighted stretching
- Eccentric overloading
- Post-activation potentiation
- KAATSU/blood flow restriction training
Training gear
- Weightlifting belts
- Footwear: what to wear in the gym
- Knee wraps
- Lifting straps
Cardio
- Implementation for fat loss
- Estimating energy expenditure per activity
- Implementation for health
- Implementation for sports (limited)
- How to mitigate the interference effect
- HIIT vs. LISS
Training program case studies
Stretching
Postural correction
Warming up
Injury management
- Pain science
- Ice vs. heat, NSAIDs and RICE
- Rehabilitative tools & equipment
- Foam rolling and massage
- Chiropractic & alternative medicine
- Common injuries of each body part and how to treat them
Sleep and stress
- Circadian rhythm control
- How to optimize sleep quality
- How to manage stress
- How to effortlessly increase your activity level
Adherence: the psychology of how to stick to your diet and exercise program
- Physical vs mental effects of nutrition
- Goal setting
- Cheat meals
- Diet breaks
- Social eating events
- How to deal with social pressure
- Food cravings
- Flexible dieting and meal planning
Beauty
- Acne
- Tanning
- Cellulite
- Hair loss
- Dandruff
How to decide where to live
- What really matters according to research
- Having children; why (not) and where to live with them
- Renting vs buying: commonly misunderstood economics
How to find a romantic partner based on relationship satisfaction science
- Should you be monogamous?
- When to stop dating
- Partner attributes to check for a happy relationship
Money
- How to choose your career
- How to invest your money to build wealth
How to find happiness: the evidence-based path
Satisfaction guarantee
There's no risk. Don't agree with the 99% satisfied students? You can leave the course at any time and stop paying.
If you want to stop the course for any reason, cancel your subsciption in the learning platform.
You only have to pay for months for which you've received any materials. You will be refunded for any other future months if you had already paid in advance. There is no refund for the months you have already received any contents of. If you register and cancel before the course starts, we will charge a $50 USD administrative fee to prevent abuse and cover our costs.
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Course with mentoring
499 USD / month for 10 months
Limited to 10 spots. See details.
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Monthly payments
189 USD / month for 10 months
Our mission is to spread evidence-based fitness education around the whole world, but exchange rates and international differences in purchasing power can be prohibitive for some. We therefore bestow up to 10 scholarships per course with discounts of 50% to top students from countries with nominal GDP per capita rates below the global average .
Eligibility criteria:
- You email us (Info@MennoHenselmans.com) why you believe you merit this scholarship. Particular emphasis is placed on fluent English, good grades and a passion for evidence-based fitness.
- Your official residence, bank and IP address are all from one of the following countries. Required documents to attach: proof of residence and official ID document.
Frequently asked questions
The Henselmans Personal Trainer Certification Course, commonly known as the Henselmans PT Course, is for fitness professionals and competitive physique and powerlifting athletes. It has additional modules on competitive bodybuilding, powerlifting, hormones, becoming a better coach and running a fitness business. It's slightly higher priced, has a formal examination and awards you with an official PT Certification. It does not cover anything lifestyle related beyond the physical (such as sleep optimization).
The Henselmans Personal Development Course shares all the fundamental information about training, nutrition and supplementation, except the topics specifically relevant for competitive athletes and fitness professionals. Instead of those and the certification, it goes into personal development and lifestyle optimization with the same evidence-based perspective. It covers how to make life's most important decisions to maximize your well-being based on hard data, such as career advice and where to live, whom to choose as your partner and how to invest your money to build wealth.
This course is purely for your self-development, to get yourself results. It's for serious lifters that want to reach their maximum natural muscular potential at a sustainably low body fat percentage. You will also learn evidence-based directions to make some of the most important decisions of your life.
This course offers unique topics the PT course does not, like how to optimize your lifestyle to be happy and fulfilled. We cover what the research shows about how to choose your career, how to find the best match for your romantic partner, where to live and how to invest your money to build wealth with minimal effort.
The course is designed to be doable part-time, so you can follow it alongside your work or studies. With about one free evening per week, you should be able to keep up with the group.
There's no need to ever feel rushed. You will keep access to all the material, so feel free to work through everything at your own pace.
No, we have students from all over the world. All materials can be viewed on our online platform or you can download them. You can study at your own convenience.
You can pay monthly over 10 months or in one single payment. We accept payments via PayPal, credit card and bank transfer.
If you use Paypal, you will be transfered to a secure Paypal checkout page to finish your registration. The first payment will start when you register. Thereafter, you'll be automatically billed each month until you've paid for 10 months.
If you choose bank transfer, you'll receive an email and invoice from our administration within 72 hours with detailed instructions to set up your payment.
If you have any questions about payments, you can contact us at us at Info@MennoHenselmans.com
Yes, you will keep access to the material and the learning platform. However, because we update the course regularly, some links might not work after a while.
It's not possible to get all the material at once. The course has a deliberate pace.
You will keep access to the course materials from your round. If you'd like access to the updated materials from future rounds you can enroll again and you'll get a major discount: 7 months free if you sign up for the very next course or 6 months free if you sign up for any course thereafter.
Many choose to take the course every few rounds to stay up-to-date with the latest science.
With the mentoring option you will get full course plus a one-on-one video call mentoring session with Menno Henselmans each month. This option is limited to 10 spots. You can pay in 10 monthly payments of $499,-.
The primary time zone will be Amsterdam time in the afternoons and evenings.
*Disclaimer: Some quotes might be from reviews for content from the Personal Trainer course.