Advanced Skills For Fitness Professionals II
Learn popular forms of exercise from industry leaders. Expand
and improve your programs, increase your customer base
and enhance your skills. Specific exercise techniques
discussed include: functional flexibility, sport
specific training, step aerobics and cardio-boxing.
Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain
and demonstrate two different stretch variations.
- Design a stretching
regimen for upper and lower body.
- Design two different
sport-specific training programs.
- Demonstrate three
rehabilitative exercises.
- Explain and demonstrate
posture and body mechanics for stepping.
- Apply proper cueing
while leading a step routine.
- Demonstrate proper
form on punches and kicks for cardio-boxing.
- Lead a cardio-boxing
routine.
Pre-Requisite:
This is an intermediate level course for students with some experience and
fitness-related education.
Methods of Instruction:
Lecture, group discussion, demonstration, hands-on practice 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:
- Functional flexibility, stretching for general clients
and athletes, stretching regiments for upper and lower
body regions, static and PNF stretches for each major
muscle group
- Functional training, understanding functional fitness,
stability balls, free weights and weight bearing machines
for improved functional fitness, single and multi joint
exercises.
- Step up to step, correct posture and body mechanics
specific to stepping, essential safety guidelines, linking
combinations together, cueing methods. Cardio Boxing,
proper punching form and footwork, stretches for cardio-boxing
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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