Syllabus
12 Sessions that cover the entire curriculum
Lesson One
Introduction to Personal Training
- Phase One: Client Consultation and Assessment
- Phase Two: Fitness Testing and Evaluation
- Phase Three: Exercise Prescription
- Phase Four: Program Design
- Phase Five: Exercise Management
- Phase Six: Exercise Physiology
- Phase Seven: Nutrition Education
- The Business of Personal Fitness Training
- The Twelve Components of Fitness
- The IFPA Personal Trainer System
Lesson Two
Client Consulting
- The Personality Types
- The Seven Phases
- The Classic Objections you will routinely hear in the Fitness Industry
Lesson Three
Personal Training as a Profession
- How to Become a Highly Successful Personal Trainer
- The Donut Curse
- What is Personal Training?
- Becoming the Best Personal Trainer
- Communication – The Key to Efficiency
- Defining Health and Fitness
- Professional Guidelines for the Personal Trainer
Lesson Four
Personal Training Business, Motivation, and Behavior Modification
- Motivation and Building a Personal Training Business
- Life and Personal Training is a Job of Sales
- Attitude
- Prospecting – Starting the Business
- Closing
- Network Marketing
- Prospecting for the Network
- Motivation for Constant Success
- Negative Motivation for a Positive Result
- Positive Motivation
- Positive Motivation Techniques
- Modeling
- The “Contract” Approach
Lesson Five
Fitness Testing
- Fitness Testing Benefits vs Risks
- Components of Fitness Testing
- Pretesting: Before Fitness Testing
- Establishing Health and Fitness Goals
- “Resting” Fitness Data
- Body Composition Analysis
- Circumference Measurements
- DNA Testing
- Power
- Exercise Testing
- Muscular Strength and Muscular Endurance Testing
- Muscular Strength Testing
- Muscular Endurance Testing
- Upper Body Muscular Endurance Testing
- Aerobic Endurance Testing
- Flexibility
- Balance
Lesson Six
Anatomy and The Muscular System
- The Muscular System
- Anatomy of the Muscular System
- The Process of Muscular Contraction
- Muscle Fiber Type
- The Growth of Muscles
Lesson Seven
Cardiovascular, Respiratory Systems, and Energy Metabolism
- Cardiorespiratory Physiology
- Components of the Cardiovascular System
- The Cardiorespiratory System and Fitness
- The Energy Systems
- Protein as Fuel Sources
- Note to Practitioners of Personal Training
Lesson Eight
Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology
- Key Factors in Training Adaptations
- Health Changes with Training
- Performance and Training
- The Adaptation or Specificity Principle
- The Overload Principle – Gradual Progressive Overload
- Applying Gradual Progressive Overload
- FITT – Establishing the Exercise Prescription and Amount of Overload
- Individuality and Variation – Applying SAID and GPO for Results
- Application of Training Principles
- Aerobic Training
- Heart Rate and Training
- HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) Design
- Finding a Point of Reference
- Skeletal System and Arthrology
- The Functions of Bone in the Body
- The Vertebral Column
- Common Questions and Answers Regarding the Back Exercise
- Types of Joints (Articulations)
- Types of Diarthrodial Articulations
- Connective Tissue and Related Structures
- The Muscular System
- Learning the Muscles
Lesson Nine
Exercise Prescription, Program Design
- Program Explanation
- Screening, Goal Setting, and Fitness Testing
- The Individual Workout Session
- Periodization
- Duties of the Personal Trainer During a Workout
- Benefits of Exercise
- Principles of Exercise Prescription for Senior Adults
- FITT
- Frequency of Exercise
- Types of Exercise (Mode)
- Special Needs Populations
- Customized Personal Trainer Exercise Prescription
- Exercise Prescription for Personal Fitness Training
- Evaluating Your Clients’ Fitness Level for Safe and Effective Exercise Prescription
Lesson Ten
Exercise Management, Safety and Exercises, Training the Major Muscle
- Equipment
- Machines
- Safety Equipment
- Safety and Resistance Training
- Resistance Training for the Major Muscle Groups
- How Injuries Occur
- General Techniques for Safe Exercise
- Specific Safety Guidelines
- Injury Management
- Exercises for the Lower Body
- Upper Body Exercises
Lesson Eleven
Flexibility Training
- The Benefits of Stretching
- Stretching
- Types of Stretching
- Techniques for Proper Stretching
- Beginning Stretches
- Advanced Stretches
Lesson Twelve
Sports Nutrition
- Nutrition, Metabolism, and Sports Nutrition
- MyPlate
- General Dietary Recommendations and Reasoning Behind these Recommendations
- General Recommendations for Weight Loss
- RDA, DRI, RDI, and DRV
- Food Labels, Reference Daily Intake, and Daily Reference Values
- The Three Key Concepts in Understanding Metabolism
- Summarizing the Three Key Concepts in Metabolism
- Combining the Key Concepts in Metabolism and Energy System Balance
- Nutrition for a Healthy Lifestyle
Assessment Procedure
- Once all lessons are covered, the students will have a few days to study and review course material. Then the IFPA team will schedule a Practical and Theoretical exam that the students must pass to get certified.
- Each assessment will have recap sessions prior to the scheduled date.
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