Personal Fitness Training

A course focused on a key driver of success as a personal trainer: gaining and retaining clients. This course addresses engaging clients in your facility and generating goal-oriented value to retain your clients. New and unique ways of looking at prospecting and retention are discussed.

This course focuses on anatomy from a functional perspective, covering how muscles work to produce movements in the joints. Special focus is given to analyzing the movements of joints in selected resistance training exercises.

A course that presents an integrated view of biomechanics. Topics include tensegrity and the implications of functional biomechanics in exercise and movement.

This course covers fitness assessment and testing techniques, including review of physiological measurements, preexercise evaluation, test selection and test interpretation. Other topics include resting metabolism and advanced body composition techniques.

A course focused on the interpretation of cardiovascular assessments to create programs for various populations. Topics include needs analysis, exercise selection and order, and training frequency.

A course focused on the interpretation of various assessments to create programs for specific performance goals. Topics include needs analysis, exercise selection and order, training frequency, and other acute variables.

This course covers methods and practices that facilitate improvement in local mobility, global mobility, and full range of motion in the joints. Topics are focused on observing limitations or deficiencies and designing flexibility and stretching programs for various populations.

This course focuses on knowledge and training concepts that are unique to training older adults and youth. Topics related to training older adults include assessing fitness levels, designing fitness programs, and providing motivating exercise. The practical realities of working with youth, socialization of play, and providing motivating exercise that is dominated by movement will also be addressed.

This course focuses on knowledge and training concepts that are unique to training persons with chronic diseases and disabilities. Topics include exercise as medicine, managing exercise, and exercise recommendations for individuals with chronic diseases and disabilities.

This course addresses the essence of being a personal trainer - helping clients with behavior change. Students learn about the psychology of health and fitness in order to facilitate long-term behavior change in clients.

This course is focused on a variety of corrective exercise screenings and strategies. Topics in this course include muscle imbalances, movement efficiency, and injury prevention.

A course focused on building resistance training programs for athletes through the four sport seasons. Topics include needs analysis, exercise selection and order, training frequency, loading and repetitions, volume, and rest period.

This course provides an in-depth look at sports nutrition. Students will learn how to effectively assist the athletic population with nutrition for performance enhancement.

This course explores health and wellness as it relates to corporate industry. Topics include worksite health promotion, public preventative health services, and current topics in corporate fitness and wellness.

A course focused on specific strategies to help develop fitness clientele while maximizing marketing and advertising returns. Students will learn about basic marketing and advertising concepts and techniques using a fitness industry lens to achieve results.

Creating a successful fitness business is the goal of many personal trainers. This course is a survey of key entrepreneurship concepts and strategies for success as a fitness entrepreneur. Topics include business plans, studio and club design, and key factors to success.

This course guides students in developing leadership traits and philosophies that will assist them in the role of personal trainer. Students reflect on different leadership scenarios that they may encounter in the health and fitness industry.

This course teaches students how to evaluate research in order to stay current and to continually be developing as a personal trainer. Topics include research skills, validity, reliability, and ways to critically analyze research.

A course on special topics and current trends in the health and fitness industry, including technology, popular types of training, and the future of training.