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FAE/IPTFA International Certified Personal Trainer

A course by Fitness Academy Europe (FAE), approved by EREPS and EuropeActive, with certification delivered in partnership with the International Personal Trainers & Fitness Academy (IPTFA).

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IPTFA - Posture & Stability Training

This course focuses on enhancing posture and stability, key components for overall fitness and injury prevention. It covers the fundamentals of body alignment, core stability, and balance.

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NASM - Weight Loss Specialist

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FAE/IPTFA International Certified Personal Trainer

Course Overview

The Personal Trainer is employed as an exercise professional who personally supervises the client in one-to-one sessions.personal trainer’s role includes designing, implementing and evaluating exercise/physical activity programmes for a range of individual clients by collecting and analyzing client information to ensure the effectiveness of personal exercise programmes. A personal trainer should also actively encourage potential clients/members to participate in and adhere to regular exercise/physical activity programmes, employing appropriate motivational strategies to achieve this.

Module 1: Basics of Fitness

This module covers the essentials of fitness, including how the body functions, the importance of adopting an active and healthy lifestyle, and maintaining a safe, clean, and welcoming gym environment to ensure optimal health and safety for all.

Module 2: Anatomy & Physiology for Health & Fitness

This module provides a comprehensive overview of the human body’s anatomy and physiology as they relate to health and fitness. Topics include skeletal anatomy, joint movement, muscle actions, respiratory and cardiovascular physiology, cellular energy systems, and the roles of the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. It also covers thermoregulation and how exercise impacts muscle and bodily functions.

Module 3: The Fitness Instructor

This module focuses on the key responsibilities of a fitness instructor, including ensuring health and safety in facilities and for participants, conducting fitness inductions, and motivating clients. It also covers essential instruction skills necessary to guide and support individuals in their fitness journey.

Module 4: Nutrition for Health & Fitness

This module introduces the fundamentals of nutrition and its role in fitness. It covers digestion, macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, proteins), vitamins, minerals, and hydration. The module also provides specific nutrition strategies for endurance, intense exercise, hypertrophy, and fat loss to support various fitness goals.

Module 5: Business Skills for Personal Training

This module equips personal trainers with essential business skills, focusing on customer-oriented service, effective delivery, and understanding the personal training business model. Topics include branding, product and service development, business planning, marketing strategies, and sales techniques to successfully promote and grow a personal training business.

Module 6: Consultation, Testing, and Program Design

This module covers the fundamentals of fitness assessments and personalized program design. It includes key components of fitness, communication skills, data collection, and assessments for cardiovascular health, strength, balance, and agility. Learners will explore the principles of designing cardiovascular and resistance training programs, with a focus on short- and long-term planning, adapting training variables, and monitoring progress.

Module 7: Exercise Instruction for Personal Training

This module focuses on the skills needed to effectively instruct personal training sessions. It covers session preparation, advanced training methods, spotting, and safety. Learners will explore the use of technology in PT, as well as exercises using cardiovascular machines, free weights, bodyweight, cables, and stretching techniques. The module also emphasizes delivering and concluding sessions professionally.

Entry Requirements
All applicants should have completed General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) to enrol in this course.

Certification Fee:
MVR 18504
Payment plans available

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NASM - Weight Loss Specialist

Achieving sustainable weight loss takes more than diet and exercise alone. It requires an understanding of all the physiological, psychological, and psychosocial factors at play that can make weight loss seem so difficult for so many people. In this specialization you’ll learn about the obesity epidemic, the science of weight loss and metabolism, fitness and nutrition coaching strategies, and much more.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Review the course structure, program objectives, and meet the client personas that will be used as case studies throughout the course

Chapter 2: Scope of Practice
This chapter provides an overview of the landscape of healthcare and describes where a Weight Loss Specialist fits into the healthcare continuum. Develop an understanding of how to best serve your clients while ensuring you follow best practices.

Chapter 3: The State of Obesity
Understand the scope of obesity and how it impacts society and ultimately clients. Learn the primary reasons for obesity and how clients may become obese. These insights are important for understanding clients at a fundamental level and how key drivers of obesity can be addressed by a Weight Loss Specialist.

Chapter 4: The Physiology of Obesity
Learn what changes occur in the body due to obesity and how that can affect the health and physical properties of the body, including the organ systems, hormones, metabolism, and neurobiology. All of these aspects can affect the way people with obesity respond to exercise.

Chapter 5: Psychosocial and Obesity
This chapter will discuss three critical domains of the psychosocial components of obesity: mental health, social influences, and eating disorders. Learn about self-esteem and body image, and how to empathize with your clients over these aspects of mental health. Social influences and social determinants of obesity will be explored in depth and potential solutions to addressing these issues will be provided.

Chapter 6: Metabolism
Understand the metabolism and how it relates to obesity, including energy balance and energy needs as well as the role of environment and genetics. Learn about the primary theories of what causes obesity from a metabolic standpoint and how a Weight Loss Specialist can operationalize those theories in practice and provide solutions to clients who have difficulty losing weight.

Chapter 7: Nutrition and Supplementation
Understand nutrition, supplementation, and dieting as it relates to obesity. Popular dietary schemes and archetypes have been used to address obesity for decades. Review these diets in detail as well as their efficacy and utility.

Chapter 8: The Impact of Exercise on Weight Loss
Exercise is most commonly thought of as one of the critical components to weight loss; however, exactly how it affects weight loss is often misunderstood. This chapter will provide an in-depth review of how exercise affects weight loss from a calorie expenditure perspective, a metabolic perspective, a health perspective, and the effects of exercise on mental health.

Chapter 9: Psychology of Weight Loss
The psychological effects of weight loss are as important as the physiological ones. This chapter will review five key components of the psychology of weight loss: coping, dieting, will power, adherence, and ambivalence.

Chapter 10: The Client Intake Process
A critical component to achieving success as a Weight Loss Specialist is developing a clear, consistent, and thorough intake process. Individuals who require weight loss have specific needs when it comes to assessment. This chapter will review the fundamental components of developing a proper intake process and will provide a set of robust tools for Weight Loss Specialists to use.

Chapter 11: Conducting Fitness Assessments
Understanding the readiness and fitness of a client is imperative for Weight Loss Specialists. These assessments and tests (like calculating calories for goal weights) help the Weight Loss Specialist understand the current state of a client and determine where the appropriate starting point is using a thoughtful, systematic approach.

Chapter 12: Nutrition Coaching Strategies for Weight Loss
Learn how to create a weight loss program, how to use strategies to increase adherence to the plan, and how to apply various assessment tools to make modifications during the plan to ensure ongoing success for the client. Learn about behavior change models that have been shown in research to be effective.

Chapter 13: Fitness Coaching Strategies for Weight Loss
Understand how exercise for the individual client differs, how intensity can affect overall energy expenditure via the constrained energy model, and the role of NEAT in the context of fitness coaching and weight loss.

Chapter 14: Integrating Nutrition and Fitness with the Weight Loss Client
Nutrition and fitness coaching are often part of an integrated plan. This chapter will utilize client personas to help you learn how to integrate the nutrition and fitness plans developed for a client. This chapter will provide a straightforward, defined process for how to set up, implement, and evaluate an integrated program for a client.

Chapter 15: Weight Maintenance and Sustainability
Sustainability and setting clients up for long term success is one of the most important aspects for a Weight Loss Specialist to consider. This chapter will review key aspects of how to ensure clients have sustainable results.

Entry Requirements
Intended for Certified Personal Trainer

Certification Fee:
MVR 11873

Payment plans available