Continuing Education Details

Continuing Education Programs

Sports and Recreation Training Recertification

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Price: $380.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

This advanced program is for fitness professionals preparing to work with athletes requiring specialized sports training.

The Sports and Recreation program includes two core sections as follows:

Training Program Design for Sports and Recreation

This program will allow the certified personal trainer to assess and apply an understanding of:

• Movement requirements of particular physical activities and sports.
• The aerobic, anaerobic, strength and flexibility requirements and specialty skills for those activities and sports.
• Workouts that help condition trainees for sports.
• Principles to follow in developing a cross-training program.
• Visualization sessions that incorporate the mental faculties to enhance peak athletic performance.

Preventing and Managing Injuries

This program will allow the certified trainer to:

• Identify injuries and apply methods of injury prevention and recovery.
• Understand the treatment and rehabilitation requirements of sport injuries to enhance a 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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Price: $270.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

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

The Aerobics and Step Instructor program includes two core sections as follows:

Core Section 1: Aerobics Instructor

This section teaches 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 the impact levels of different aerobic movements.
• Movements and cues for different aerobic movements.
• Choreography of 32-count routines matched to the phrasing of 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 to adapt the techniques of aerobics to step training, with its specific choreography demands and 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 with 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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Price: $260.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

This program is designed and recommended for certified fitness experts wishing to build a foundation of nutritional knowledge and develop proper food plans.

The following topics will be discussed:

• Evaluation of daily food intakes using the Food Guide Pyramid.
• Evaluation of daily food intakes using Tables of Food Consumption.
• Making suggestions for improved eating habits and recommendations for healthier choices using the above tools.
• Analysis of individual foods using Food Labels.

CQI-IQ Recertification

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Price: $60.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

This program is designed for personal certified trainers interested in enhancing the quality of service they deliver to clients, through improved decision making and customer service.

The following topics will be discussed:

• Problem monitoring and the creation of 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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Price: $60.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

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 techniques, including effective posture, gestures, and expressions.
• Client interviewing to acquire basic information and goals, using the techniques of amplification, clarification, and verification.
• Planning client routines using three key brainstorming steps.

The Athlete Inside Recertification

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Price: $110.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

This program is designed for certified personal trainers, group exercise instructors, and physical education teachers interested in incorporating athletic activities into their workouts and enhancing their clients’ athletic abilities.

The following topics will be discussed:

• Learning to analyze sport-specific movement needs, select exercises, and design workouts for any activity or sport.
• Designing fitness activities based on exercise-related principles.
• Applying visualization to enhance your clients’ skill and performance.

Building Instructor Versatility Recertification

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Price: $119.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

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

The following topics will be discussed:

• Learning a fun, creative method of choreography to add to your aerobics and step classes.
• Discovering new ways to teach group strength training.
• Exploring methods of adding mind/body and flexibility training to classes.
• Practicing effective correctional techniques.
• Developing goals for your own career.

Injuries & Active People Recertification

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Price: $99.00 | Continued Education Credits: None

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 to assist with both the physical and mental aspects of recovering from injuries.

The following topics will be discussed:

• Learning to identify and teach methods of injury prevention and recovery.
• Modifying and designing exercise routines to facilitate health through injury recovery.
• Practicing mind/body techniques that aid in injury recovery and reduce fears of returning to activity.