Advanced Skills For Fitness Professionals
This course provides an overview of issues facing health
and fitness professionals today. Topics include:
popular diets and nutritional supplements, financial and
legal issues of concern to industry professionals, and
safety and injury prevention.
Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this course, students will
be able to:
- Explain
the relationship between caloric intakes, caloric burn,
weight loss and weight gain.
- Explain
the effects of nutrition on exercise and well-being.
- Describe
the effects of common nutritional supplements.
- List 3
strategies to market and sell their business.
- Develop
group and individual pricing strategies.
- Explain the necessary
safety precautions for running and weight training exercises.
Pre-Requisite:
This is an intermediate level course for students with
some experience and fitness-related education.
Methods of Instruction:
Lecture, group discussion, demonstration and final examination.
Completion Requirements:
Students must earn a score of 70% or higher on the exam. Attendance
is required and students are only allowed one excused absence.
Students with an excused absence must schedule a make-up
session and complete any work assigned.
Course Outline:
- Nutritional
Concepts, popular diets, common drugs and nutritional
supplements, caloric balance, weight loss, gain and management.
- Safety
and injury prevention for running and advanced weight
training, optimum running form and
technique analysis, shoes and apparel.
- Business and selling skills,
liability insurance minimums, developing group and individual pricing strategies,
adjusting to different types of clients, creating a need, changing a "no" into
a "yes"
Credits:
15 contact hours. Approved for 15 WITS CECs and
1.5 IACET and BOC CEUs. Recommended for 1 undergraduate
academic credit by the American Council on Education.
Additional Resources:
Registered students receive discounts on study DVDs and
practice exams. Students who do not pass the course
the first time can retake the course and re-test for a
reduced fee.
* NO REFUNDS. TRANSFERS ONLY.
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