Online Advanced Aerobics Course
Gain a competitive advantage over other personal trainers and fitness instructors. Continuing professional registration points are important, but so is developing your skills and knowledge as a fitness professional. Gain the edge over other fitness industry professionals and give your clients more.
Gain a competitive advantage over other personal trainers and fitness instructors.
Continuing professional registration points are important, but so is developing your skills and knowledge as a fitness professional. Gain the edge over other fitness industry professionals and give your clients more.
This course will give you more advanced skills and knowledge in the industry to help you race in front of the pack.
There are 6 lessons in this course:
- Organising a Class
- Understanding differences in anaerobic and aerobic energy supply
- The importance of proper breathing
- Different training responses
- Movements in aerobics
- Methods of teaching
- Music and sound systems
- Safety and Efficiency
- What is safety
- Incorrect exercises
- Safety in other aerobic activities
- First aid considerations
- Oxygen equipment
- Identifying hazards
- Legal liability
- Negligence
- How to provide protection for yourself
- Pre-screnning of clients and medical clearance
- Insurance
- Managing the Workload
- Fitness and heart rates
- Fitness tests and assessment
- What do we test
- What can we measure
- Body weight and percentage fat
- Hydrostatic - underwater weighing
- Lung capacity
- Cardiovascular scoring
- Field evaluation of cardiorespiratory endurance
- 12 Minute fitness test
- Designing fitness tests
- Test conditions and test combinations
- Teaching
- Managing exercise programs
- Devising sets of relevant exercises
- Types of classes
- Classes for different types of people
- Motivational factors
- Dealing with complaints
- Class Design
- Fitness/Aerobics Class Design
- Recommended Practices
- Writing a exercise program
- A typical aerobics class - Introduction, warm up, main exercises and recovery.
- Muscle conditioning during the class
- Concluding the exercise program
- Exercises for specific problems
- Leadership and Participation
- Leadership concepts
- Leadership responsibilities
- Leadership communication
- Common communication barriers
- Understanding body language
- Desirable leadership characteristics
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
This course will give you more advanced skills and knowledge in the industry to help you race in front of the pack.