Most personal trainers don’t have the expertise to work with anyone outside of the generally healthy, fit or near-fit.
But there is a huge market of individuals – those with chronic diseases, medical conditions and disabilities – seeking personal trainers who can work with their unique needs to create safe and effective programming to improve their quality of life.
If you’re ready to…
…then it’s time to specialize!
By investing in specialized education, you’re diversifying your career and becoming more valuable to your current & future clients and future employers or business opportunities.
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Regular Price: $399 USD (~$597 AUD )
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This course is designed to provide medical and fitness professionals the knowledge needed to safely and effectively design and implement adaptive exercise programs for individuals living with or recovering from a physical disability or disease. Clientele includes but are not limited to Stroke Survivors, Spinal Cord Injury (quadriplegics/paraplegics), Multiple Sclerosis, Guillain Barre, Transverse Myelitis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Parkinson’s Disease and more.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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Regular Price: $599 USD (~$897 AUD)
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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Fitness professionals are an integral extension of Phase III-IV cardiac rehab programs. We coach the client to move and perform better in their game of life, beyond their cardiac history, co-morbidities and risk factors. People don’t live to be safe and healthy; they live safer and healthier to live life to the fullest.
In this course, Pat VanGalen will help you fine-tune your coaching skills, due diligence practices, intake info, screening/assessments and programming systems to optimize living life for this client. You’ll better understand the latest wearables in monitoring and tracking, along with networking and communicating with medical professionals.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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This course is designed to help fitness and healthcare professionals better understand the science, research, applications, and integrations of different types of exercise, and how they can support clients with T2D. The course will review what diabetes is, how it can damage the body, and review research and applications that provides health and fitness professionals the data to better support diabetic clients through evidence-based exercise programming. The course will also address behavior change support to provide professionals with strategies to help clients comfortably and confidently integrate exercise into their daily and weekly practice.
Regular Price: $559 USD (~$837 AUD )
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Fitness professionals can effectively work with those who have fibromyalgia providing them with a better quality of life through movement. This course will provide fundamental information on the anatomy and physiology affected by fibromyalgia, causes, signs and symptoms and traditional treatment. In addition, this course provides techniques on management of fibromyalgia through exercise. Learn how to design and prescribe a proper exercise program including basic nutrition to improve the quality of life for your clients with fibromyalgia.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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Regular Price: $680 USE (~$1018 AUD)
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Those 65+ strongly value their independence to continue living the active lifestyle they love. They are determined to live longer, stronger and healthier lives than their parents. Millions over 65 seek guidance from fitness professionals who are knowledgeable in exercise, nutrition and lifestyle principles that can help them improve functional mobility, while also preventing and managing chronic conditions to live their highest quality of life. This online specialization course will give you insights, strategies and tools to be a successful health professional in this rapidly growing market.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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Joint replacement procedures are life-changing, helping the recipient to get back to activities of daily living and improve their quality of life. But the work of recovery does not end with rehabilitation. Many are left with decreased overall strength, range of motion, as well as some movement dysfunction that has the potential of further improvement. This online course provides comprehensive education for the fitness professional to be able to safely and effectively train total joint replacement recipients.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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Our population is changing and while we are living longer lives, with 6 out of every 10 people having a chronic disease, it would seem we are still not living better. For some, this poses concern, a possible health crisis, yet the longevity industry understands that aging is the #1 finding present in all chronic health conditions.
This presents a unique opportunity for health, fitness and wellness professionals to gain specialized knowledge and expertise in the field of longevity. People, regardless of how long they live, want to live well and now more than ever, we know how.
Regular Price: ~$773 AUD ($519 USD)
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Mid-life women comprise a rapidly growing demographic in the fitness industry and no matter what your area of expertise, you will likely be caring for women in this stage of life. Now more than ever, the medical and fitness communities are gaining knowledge and an awareness of the sometimes life-altering changes that accompany the transition from reproductive age to reproductive quiescence.
To best navigate these unique physiologic changes and their differing effects on every woman, this course delivers what you need to know to create an individualized approach to training, nutrition and wellness that will help your perimenopausal and menopausal clients thrive during this stage of life.
Regular Price: $399 USD (~$597 AUD )
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Regular Price: $399 USD (~$597 AUD )
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The etiology of obesity is multifaceted and strategies for prevention and treatment are varied. This online course explores the biochemistry, metabolism, and pathophysiology of obesity as well as the multifaceted causes, myriad solutions, and the emerging data on weight bias and health at every size. A particular focus will be paid to exercise prescription/referral and nutrition interventions in clinical and community-based settings to understand the benefits of weight loss and overall health and wellbeing.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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There is a significant need for a higher-level of educated fitness professionals to understand how to work safely and more closely with injured clients.
The Orthopedic Fitness Specialist online course will prepare you to deliver individualized and appropriate fitness programming for the unique needs of individuals living with joint pain and injury.
Regular Price: $399 USD (~$597 AUD )
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Many fitness professionals lack the knowledge to safely and effectively design fitness programs that specifically meet the needs of those diagnosed with Osteoporosis, or at risk of being diagnosed. Additionally, many are intimidated to take on clients with osteopenia, osteoporosis, or other bone issues. These clients benefit from a sound, sensible, bone-enhancing fitness program. This course will go over the basic physiology of bones, certain diseases or conditions affecting bones, the use of diet and exercise to restore and maintain healthy bones and their functions, and how to program an exercise regimen.
Regular Price: $499 USD (~$747 AUD)
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Over the past decade, numerous exercise methods have surfaced all claiming to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Studies reveal more and more information about the epidemiology of the disease while fitness professionals are offering more personal training and/or coaching of group exercise classes specifically for those living with Parkinson’s disease. The goal of this course is to bring the research, medical and fitness fields together so that fitness professionals gain a comprehensive understanding of Parkinson’s disease, and learn how to work with those who have it.
Regular Price: $399 USD (~$597 AUD )
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Sports related injuries are some of the most common injuries; they are not limited to one age group, gender or ethnicity. They are seen across the board in high caliber athletics, youth leagues, gym training or the common weekend warrior. Some of these injuries are self-limiting and will heal with time PT, and RICE protocols. However, some will need medical and/or surgical intervention.
This course is designed to provide the student with a thorough understanding of common sports injuries and recovery post-medical/surgical intervention with considerations in training, pre and post rehabilitation, nutrition and in some cases medication to support recovery in this population.
Regular Price: $799 USD (~$1196 AUD )
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