Fitness Concepts for Special Populations Clients come in many shapes and sizes and many come with basic health issues. Be prepared and educated so you can expand your client base with opportunities in personal training and group fitness. Learn the basic pathology for specific health conditions and implications for participation in exercise. Learn how to use that knowledge to safely and effectively progress your clients to better health. Helping someone improve quality of life is rewarding and satisfying! Fitness Concepts for Clients with CVD and Stroke (3 contact hours) Fitness Concepts for Clients with Diabetes and Hypertension (3 contact hours) Fitness Concepts for Clients with Obesity Issues (3 contact hours) Fitness Concepts for Clients with Cancer (3 contact hours) Interactive Lectures
Applied Anatomy: Land and Water As a fitness professional, you are never finished learning anatomy and movement! This workshop allows you to revisit and enhance your knowledge of anatomy and its application to major muscle movement both on land and in water. You will focus on the ability to identify and better understand the function of major muscle and joint groups, muscle contractions in movement, and further apply equipment use in exercise. Knowledge is power! Increase your effectiveness with your clients by reviewing and increasing the depth of your knowledge. 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Functional Fitness for all Ages: This interactive course is designed to provide you with functional ideas to enhance your ability to provide this very popular form of training. Case studies and interactive learning will help you tailor a program for specific populations of all ages and physical skill levels. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn techniques, exercises, and exercise progressions for functional training. 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture and Movement
Biomechanics for Fitness: Anatomy and movement forms the structure for exercise used by fitness professionals. This Biomechanics workshop is designed to enhance your understanding of anatomy and kinesiology, and the principals and mechanics as they relate to human motion. This exceptionally practical workshop will give you the application tools to better understand the study of biomechanics/ movement analysis. Add to your professional knowledge base and take fitness training to its next level. Visualize biomechanical functions like you have never before. This workshop makes learning easy with accurate explanations, lots of illustrations and plenty of practice – you will be listing off joint actions and multiple planar movements in no time. 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Personal Trainer #1 - Health Risk Appraisal and Risk Factor Analysis: Develop your skills to better understand the quintessential and complicated process for screening a client before assessment or programming. Recognize your legal and ethical responsibility to clients. Feel secure in your understanding of using industry standards and guidelines. In this unique interactive learning environment, you will identify major health issues and possible risks. How do you know with certainty whether a physician’s consent should be required before working with your client? Understand and ascertain risk factors, signs and symptoms, and risk stratification with confidence. Increase your understanding of this necessary process established by ACSM. Take this most important FIRST STEP towards being a total fitness professional. 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Personal Trainer #2 - Basic Measurement: Dramatically improve your skills as a trainer. Effectively measure blood pressure, heart rates, body composition, circumference measurements, and BMI with confidence and speed. Basic measurement skills are critical to effective fitness program development. It is important to understand how to properly choose, measure, and use fitness assessment information to track changes occurring in your client’s health and fitness levels. Boost your productivity and efficiency by increasing these basic skills. Interactive learning methods and great visual material are used to instruct this workshop. 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Personal Trainer #3 - Fitness Assessment: Assess, don’t Guess! The only certain way to properly initiate exercise and progress your client is through skillful assessment practices. Enhance your skills to correctly perform fitness assessments for your client’s flexibility, muscular endurance, and cardiorespiratory fitness level. Assess and program with confidence to keep your client coming back for more. Mastering these skills is critical to effective fitness program development and client retention. Our proven interactive learning method, use of visuals and equipment, are used to instruct this workshop. You are the best trainer in the world because you measure and verify how your clients are successful! 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Personal Trainer #4 - Programming Skills for Personal Trainers: Have you run out of programming ideas for some of your clients? Well don’t fret! Solidify your client programming skills and learn ways to help your client achieve desired goals. Safe and effective programming skills are your bread and butter as a personal trainer. Review basic program concepts, ACSM guidelines, and improve your client retention rate with quality programs and innovative ideas. 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Personal Trainer #5 - Program Periodization: This interactive lecture will have you designing periodized programs for your clients promptly. Innovative guidelines for cardiorespiratory, resistance training, and general fitness periodization will be explored. Learn Henry Drought’s innovative theory for periodizing fitness components for the average adult client. Offer your clients variety, motivation, and super programming ideas. Success for them and retention for you! 3 contact hours Interactive Lecture
Water Power Moves: that TURN UP THE HEAT Power up your pool program with Water Power Moves. This highly interactive choreography workshop will focus on turning up the heat to increase intensity and caloric expenditure in your water fitness programs. Don’t just be handed choreography- Learn how to transform basic movement combinations into high energy work for your fit participants. Water isn’t for wimps! Come and find out how to include hot moves with powerful energy to keep your clients coming back for more. 3 contact hours Lecture/Practical
Aquatic Balance & Core Concepts Balance and core training is clinically proven to yield favorable results for both athletes and special populations. Learn the latest developments in balance training applied to aquatic fitness programs. Watch your students experience immediate training benefits and take your deck teaching skills to the next level as you personally achieve balance and coordination success! Participate in multi-dimensional core stabilization and balance conditioning programs to strengthen the key muscle groups, which support the body more effectively in the pool. Develop exercise routines that work to strengthen these muscles that surround the spine, abdomen, shoulder, and hip area. Walk away with exercises fundamentals that help you to teach your clients how to support and strengthen their spine and postural musculature. 3 contact hours Lecture/Practical
PNF Exercises and Buoyancy Stretches Refresh your aquatic programming with 2 great exercise concepts: PNF exercises and buoyancy stretches! Discover primary PNF moves to add depth to group fitness or personal training. Easy to incorporate PNF diagonal movement patterns are essential to retaining and enhancing movement and brain patterns while stimulating proprioception. Add new dimension and variety to your post stretch and flexibility programming using buoyancy and the side of the pool to make stretching fun and relaxing. You will stretch like never before! 3 contact hours Lecture/Practical
Buoyant Development Come and discover the buoyant development of muscular strength and endurance in the aquatic environment. Learn techniques for using aquatic buoyant equipment more effectively including all major muscle groups and progressive overload. Add new life to your hand bar and noodle workouts! (3 contact hours) Lecture/Practical
On Line & On Site Courses
Transitioning Personal Training from Land to Water Expand your training clientele and increase your income potential! This course gives you the skills you need to expand your personal training skills to the aquatic environment. Learn the principles and properties of the water, aquatic training formats, basic shallow and deep water movements, and much more. Everything you need to start a successful aquatic personal training career. Expand your possibilities!
You will follow these simple steps to complete the course: At Home On Line Training: Module 1 Introduction to Aquatic Personal Training. Sponsored by Aquatic Exercise Association Module 2 Aquatic Personal Training Programming. Module 3 Applied Anatomy: Land and Water. One Day On Site Training: Module 4 Shallow Water Moves/Formats & Basic Water Safety. Module 5 Deep Water Moves/Formats & Basic Aquatic Equipment.
Requirements: You must have completed a land-based personal training certification by an accredited organization. This may be a Personal Trainer Certification or higher certification (for example: ACSM Health Fitness Specialist or NSCA CSCS), or a 2 or 4 year degree in fitness or a related field. Course Recommendations: Experience in the water. We recommend that you take an aquatic group fitness course or work with a trained and experienced aquatic personal trainer.
