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Certified Fitness Practitioner What Is This Edutraining Course About? FEA presents the first and only personal trainer practice course that is designed and tailored according to the competencies and skills required for the job. While offering you the job practice needed, this course will give you the option to secure higher passing rates for internationally renowned exams, like ACSM, ACE, and NSCA CPT. You can now say good bye to long hours of lectures and non-purposeful reading

What Does It Take To Be A Successful Personal Trainer? Some may assume that fitness is simply to exercise and thus being a personal trainer is merely about getting your clients in shape. But being a personal trainer is so much more than that! A good, professional personal trainer manages clients with different goals, physical abilities, health concerns, expectations, exercise history and communication styles. Learn to work with clients and decide which unique training works for them

Superstar Personal Trainers EMPOWER Clients Although there is an abundance of readily available information regarding the dos and don’ts of exercising, as well as programmes that promise results, a successful personal trainer shows competency in assisting clients to diligently select strategies which are safe, effective and fits the client’s lifestyle; enabling clients to start and adhere to his or her fitness regime

Why Should You Consider This Course? • Get certified in fitness

• Learn how to train and manage clients • Discover the right strategies to match diverse clientele

• Enjoy higher pass rates for international certified personal trainer exams • Be trained on safe and effective exercise techniques and guidelines

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What skills will you gain? In Level 1 - Certified Fitness Instructor, you will learn

• The Role of a Certified Fitness Practitioner, as we introduce

• What a client expect from a Fitness Practitioner and how you can help clients within your scope of practice

• The career pathway of a Fitness Practitioner and how do you make it BIG in this fast-growing industry

• Exercise Instructing, as we introduce

• Safe and effective movement techniques according to exercise science and internationally-approved guidelines

• How to breakdown movement to make learning exercises simple and easy-to-comprehend for clients

• Observing techniques to screen for common movement errors & deviation and how to modify coaching cues

• Modify exercises like a pro without having to worry about having your clients do the same exercises all the time

• Exercise Guidelines, as we introduce

• The A.C.T Training Model that will help you bring a client through an effective and purposeful exercise experience

• Internationally recognised guidelines to fulfil the 4 principles of fitness: Cardiovascular Fitness, Muscular Fitness, Body Composition and Mobility

• Workout Design and Implementation for 1-on-1 and Small Group Training, as we introduce

• Different exercises to be implemented in warm-up, conditioning and cool-down • Ways to design functional and resistance training workouts for beginner, intermediate and

advance clients • Tools to include in your small group training to allow you to handle more clients at one time

without compromising attention

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In Level 2 – Personal Trainer in Practice, you will learn

• Common Client Goals, which are:

• Improving Function • General Health and Fitness • Muscular Hypertrophy • Fat Loss • Cardiovascular Endurance • Muscular Strength

• Client Assessment, as we introduce

• Common client goals and how to select appropriate and relevant assessment according to their needs

• How to perform these assessments as accurate as possible to give you information you need to design a program that delivers result

• How to interpret assessment results and develop action plan to help clients reach their goals

• Goal-based Programming, as we introduce

• Pre-requisite and physiological adaptations required to achieve common client goals • Training methodology, sample microcycle, mesocycle and macrocycle based on case studies • Client centered goal-based nutritional and behavioural strategies

Who Will This Benefit? • Fitness Enthusiasts • Fitness Professionals • Strength and Conditioning Professionals

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Description Certified Fitness Instructor The Certified Fitness Instructor Course (CFI) is a must-have for anyone with more than one-year of exercise experience wanting to become a fitness practitioner (personal trainer or fitness professional). As a Certified Fitness Instructor (CFI), you will be able to instruct exercises according to international guidelines, and lead both personal and group personal fitness workouts. You will be provided with all the essentials, enabling you to walk away from the course feeling confident and empowered to kick start an exciting new career!

Day 1 (3+3 hours)

The Professional Personal Trainer and Career Pathway. Principles of Fitness & A.C.T

Model

In this session, we will look at the role, scope of practice and code of ethics of a Certified Fitness Practitioner. Fitness Practitioner must know the career pathway to ensure longevity and sustainability of their career while striving to learn as they climb. We will then introduce the principles of fitness and how it is translated into the A.C.T Training Model to help us train our clients to be healthier, fitter, and eventually achieving a specific fitness goal.

A.C.T: Lower Body Training

In this session, students will apply the A.C.T Training Model into training the lower body. Two lower body human movement which is essentially the bend & lift and single leg will be introduced. Students will learn the movement science, how our body is designed to move, warm-up and cool-down drills. At the end of this session, students will be able to teach the movement, observe common movement dysfunction while progressing and regressing the movement. Simple flexibility test is also introduced to help trainers rule out possibility of movement dysfunction caused by mobility issue.

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Day 2 (3+3 hours)

A.C.T: Upper Body Training

On the second day, students will experience the same learning process they had for lower body with upper body now. Another three human movements are introduced which is push, pull and rotation for the upper body. Students will again learn the movement science, warm-up and cool-down drills, how to teach, observe and correct.

Instructional Skills and Designing & Implementing Workout

After learning all the movements, students will now be taught how to design functional and resistance training workouts for beginner, intermediate and advance exercisers. You will learn how to structure a 45 mins - 60 mins workout by selecting and sequencing appropriate exercises for different types workouts. This is then followed by you implementing the workout and experience bringing someone through an entire workout. Students will apply what they have learnt on exercise instruction and guidelines while building rapport with their client.

Day 3 (3+3 hours)

BEAT: Aerobic & Anaerobic Training and Managing Small Group Training

In this session, students will learn the frequency, intensity, duration and type of cardiovascular training that is required to achieve general health and fitness. Right after, you will experience the charm of small group training as we bring you through different workout formats including circuit trainings, partner trainings, fitness games, you can try for your beginner, intermediate and advance exercisers.

Review and Theory Exam

We will spend approximately an hour to review key skills of a CFI and then we will start the theory exam. Students are required to answer 30 multiple-choice question and design workouts for 3 case studies. The theory exam will take 90 minutes.

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Personal Trainer in Practice (PTP) Personal Trainer in Practice continues the pathway to become a Certified Fitness Practitioner (CFP). In this component, you will cover various client assessments that you can implement prior to training your clients, as well as multiple strategies needed to help achieve various client goals. You will be taught to study and understand the assessment results to allow for proper modification and implementation of exercise programmes to match your clients’ needs and goals.

Understand Client Goals & Client Assessment – Initial Screening

In this session, students will be able to link the 6 common client goals: General Health, General Fitness, Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscular Hypertrophy, Fat Loss and Muscular Strength, to components of training that is required. We will discuss how to understand someone’s goal and interview techniques to help clients set SMART goals. Students will then go through the essential pre-training screening needs to be done to match client’s goal with the appropriate training.

Functional Assessment and Programming

In this session, students will learn to observe common posture deviation, perform flexibility testing and movement screens. We will then discover overactive and underactive muscles in out clients which we will learn to apply stability and mobility training. This is essential for every client to help to improve function, prevent injuries, move better and lift heavier

Programming for General Health and Fitness, Cardiovascular Endurance, Hypertrophy,

Strength and Fat Loss

In this session, we will guide you step by step to design macrocycle, mesocycle and microcycle for clients with different goals.

Business & Marketing for Personal Trainers

Finally, with all the skills you have gained through the Personal Trainer in Practice course, you are ready to take on clients! This session will teach you how to brand and market yourself and your services to help you attract the right audience.

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Course Provider Fitness Edutraining Asia - FEA

CEC Points N/A

Course Duration Total: 36 hours (6 days) Certified Fitness Instructor (Level 1) - 18 hours (3 days) Personal Trainer in Practice (Level 2) - 18 hours (3 days)

Course Time 9am – 4pm

Course Fee Please contact us

Learning Materials • Certified Fitness Practitioner manual • E-learning platform

Course Level Level 1 - Entry level course with the objective of building a strong foundation needed as pre-requisite for other courses

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Awards Certified Fitness Instructor Upon completing the course, passing the exam, and meeting all the requirements to instruct and lead a general exercise session for apparently healthy adults, you will be awarded the ‘Certified Fitness Instructor’ certificate by Fitness Edutraining Asia (FEA) Personal Trainer in Practice Upon completing the course, passing the exam, and meeting all the requirements to assess, design and implement health and fitness programmes for apparently healthy adults, you will be awarded the ‘Certified Fitness Practitioner’ certificate by Fitness Edutraining Asia (FEA) To receive the ‘Certified Fitness Practitioner’ certificate, you must meet the minimum passing score of 70% for both Certified Fitness instructor (Level 1 of Certified Fitness Practitioner) and Personal Trainer in Practice (Level 2 of Certified Fitness Practitioner)

Grading Criteria Certified Fitness Instructor At the end of the course, you will sit for the Certified Fitness Instructor exam, comprising: • Theory (40%): a. 30 Multiple Choice Questions (15%) b. Workout Design for 3 Case Studies (25%) • Video Submission (60%): Upon completing the course, you are required to submit a video of yourself performing the following: a. Exercise Technique: You are required to demonstrate how you perform the 5 appointed

exercises

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b. Instructional Skills: You are required to demonstrate how you teach another person 3 selected exercises

You will need to submit the video within 14 days of course completion. You will not be graded if you fail to do so Passing requirement: ≥ 70% and above Gold award: ≥ 85% and above (1st attempt only) Results will be announced via email 3 weeks upon course completion Personal Trainer in Practice At the end of the course, you will need to work with a real client on his/her health and/or fitness goals. You will be required to submit a report of your case study based on the guidelines given • Client assessment (30 pts) • Program design (30 pts) • Client reassessment (10 pts) • Client feedback (30 points) Passing requirement: ≥ 70% and above Results will be announced via email 3 weeks upon course completion

Recertification N/A

Exam Fee Please contact us

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Dress Code Fitness attire

What Do I Need To Bring? Stationery and a spare change of clothes

Course Capacity A minimum of 12 pax and a maximum of 20 pax

Language English or Mandarin

What’s Next? We highly recommend that you start training clients and apply what you’ve learnt through the course – you should be ready by then! If you wish to earn an international personal trainer certification, please contact us