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Continuing Education Details

The NAFC requires their students to continue their education in order to stay current in their field. Continuing education programs include topics related to fitness, exercise, nutrition, as well as business and career development in the industry. Each program is allotted a certain amount of credits that you will need towards your re-certification.  Please contact us for current CEC vaules.  The NAFC offers two paths of attaining continued education credits:

  1. Re-certification Programs and Workshops listed below. Select programs that are geared towards your specific certification.
  2. Workshops and Courses offered by other accredited organizations which will earn one CEC per workshop hour.

Continuing Education Programs

Sport and Recreation Training Recertification

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This is an advanced program for fitness professionals designed to prepare you to work with those who need specialized sport training.

This program includes two core sections as follows:

Training Program Design for Sports and Recreation

This program will allow the certified personal trainer to understand and learn to apply and determine:

  • Movement requirements of physical activities and sports in terms of aerobic, anaerobic, strength, flexibility, as well as specialty skills.
  • Workouts that will help condition students for sports.
  • Principles in developing a cross training program.
  • Visualization sessions that will help train the mentally adept athlete for peak performance.
Preventing and Managing Injuries

This program will allow the certified trainer to:

  • Identify methods of injury prevention and recovery.
  • Understand the treatment and rehabilitation requirements of sport injuries to enhance the recovery program.
  • Modify and design exercise routines for clients with injuries.
  • Discuss mind/body techniques to aid injury recovery.

Aerobics and Step Instructor Recertification

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This is an advanced program for certified group exercise instructors to teach proper aerobic and choreography techniques.

This program includes two core sections as follows:

Core Section 1: Aerobics Instructor

This section will teach the certified group exercise instructor to review proper form and alignment, aerobic training benefits, simple choreography techniques and cueing/teaching skills including the following topics:

  • Components of a total physical fitness conditioning program.
  • Components of aerobic fitness training.
  • Safety variables and methods for avoiding injury.
  • Mechanics involved in maintaining proper posture.
  • Various warm up movements and limbering exercises.
  • Types of aerobics and different impact levels of aerobic movement.
  • Movements and cues for different aerobic movements.
  • Choreograph 32 count routines and teach them to the phrase of the music.
  • Build-up and break-down routines within a 32 count phrase structure.
  • Timely and effective aerobic verbal and visual cues.
Core Section 2: Step Instructor

This section will teach the certified trainer how to apply the techniques of teaching aerobics from step training and its specific choreography demands to cueing, including the following topics:

  • Definitions and benefits of step training.
  • Proper body alignment and technique on the step.
  • Correct posture during step training.
  • Principles of step training to music.
  • Factors involved in adjusting intensity.
  • Benefits associated with the use of resistance tubing.
  • Proper warm-up techniques.
  • Proper exercise breathing techniques.
  • Directional approaches to the step bench.
  • Variations that can be used with base steps.
  • Various arm movements and intensities.
  • Step training pattern variations.

Nutrition Consultant Recertification

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This program is designed and recommended for certified fitness experts in order to build a foundation for nutrition knowledge and develop proper food plans.

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Evaluation of daily food intakes using the Food Guide Pyramid and make recommendations for healthier choices.
  • Evaluation of daily food intakes using Tables of Food Consumption and make suggestions for improvement in eating habits.
  • Analyze individual foods using Food Labels.

CQI-IQ Recertification

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This program is designed for personal certified trainers interested in delivering quality service through decision making and customer service improvement.

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Problems monitoring and their solutions.
  • Quality improvement tools.
  • THe use of 3 group techniques.
  • Right and left brain thinking techniques.

Do Your Clients Hear What You're Saying? Recertification

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This program is designed for certified personal trainers interested in facilitating discussions as a teacher, consultant and sales trainer.

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Attentive passive listening and nonverbal communication using posture, gestures, and expressions.
  • Client interview to acquire basic information, goals using amplification, clarification, and verification.
  • Plan a client routine using 3 brainstorming steps.

The Athlete Inside Recertification

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This program is designed for certified personal trainers, group exercise instructors and physical education teachers interested in applying athletic activities to their workouts or to enhance their client's athletic abilities.

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Learn to analyze sport specific movement needs, select exercises and design workouts for any activity or sport.
  • Design fitness activities based on exercise related principles.
  • Learn to apply visualization to enhance your client's skill and performance.

Building Instructor Versatility Recertification

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This program is designed for certified personal trainers, group exercise instructors and physical education teachers interested in adding versatility to their client's workouts.

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Learn a fun, creative method of choreography to add to your aerobic and step classes.
  • Discover new ways to teach group strength training.
  • Explore methods of adding Mind/Body and flexibility training to classes.
  • Practice effective correctional techniques.
  • Develop goals for your own career.

Injuries & Active People Recertification

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Active people, whether athletes or recreational exercisers face the possibility of injury. The fitness instructor is in a position to help injured exercisers return to activity. This course uses real injury experiences to help you learn how to assist in dealing with both the physical and mental aspects of injuries.

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Learn to identify and use methods of injury prevention and recovery.
  • Modify and design exercise routines for injury recovery.
  • Practice Mind/Body techniques that aid injury recovery and reduce fears of returning to activity.