The largest area of growth for the fitness professional is personal training. During this core course you will review the current research in aquatic fitness and learn how to blend the properties of water with exercise design utilizing a specific water assessments. This is also an excellent program for the instructor who wants to expedite their learning with advanced training techniques. This program will help you to apply advanced scientific principles to individual training whether training for group exercise or individual programming. By understanding a client's baseline you will learn how to program more specifically for both shallow and/or deep water. You will learn how to progress each exercise for a varied clientele to help your client achieve results. We will review case studies to better understand programming for a variety of clientele with a unique skill, body compositions, and goals. This program will provide lots of practical pool time to experience.

Previous Certification is recommended  OR  experience as a Personal Trainer

This course will help the Personal Trainer to:

• Understand the difference between land and water personal training.
• Understand the difference between group exercise and personal or one on one training.
• Current research on aquatic fitness exercise design
• Apply exercise design to shallow, transitional and deep water depths.
• Understand equipment application and exercise design for cardiovascular training, muscular strengthening & endurance, flexibility, functional fitness, agility, balance, speed, and coordination training.
• Identify individuals who should receive medical clearance prior to engaging in a personal training session.
• Design programs for individuals including post rehabilitation through to high performance levels.
• Understand how to utilize a water assessment as a baseline indicator of muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility
• Understand safety tips, modifications and progressions for exercises selected.
• Understand energy systems and how to calculate energy expenditure to determine ideal weight management
• Analyze posture and select appropriate muscular balancing exercises. Learn a variety of water specific exercise inventory to target cardiovascular conditioning,
• To experience a variety of water specific equipment that will give the trainer lots of ideas on how to build an exercise inventory tool box.
• Create a profitable and viable business plan.
• By the end of this 16 hour session, personal trainers should be able to map out a basic program suitable for post rehabilitation through high performance.
• NOTE:The theory exam is in the back of the manual.
• You must complete both the theory and practical portion of the exam to become fully Certified and qualified.

Program includes:

• 16 hours training, Personal Specialist Training Manual, 
• 4 laminated program cards,
• user ready business forms,
• certificate of course completion, certification exams (theory you may email answers & 5 case studies that you submit ), Certification profile when successful,  CEC's for AEA, OKA, BCRPA, AFLCA, SPRA, NBFLAC, OFC, and other NFLAC partners.
• How to complete either ONSITE OR CORRESPONDENCE PROGRAM

HOW to complete Certification Exams.

All WaterART Certifications have up to six months to complete TAKE HOME exam after the training date. Any exams submitted after 6 months to a year are subject to a $35.00 administration fee. If you do not complete the program within a year – you will need to re-do program without purchasing manual again. Please assume this  program may take up to 25-40 hours to complete. The theory exam is applied theory. There is study guide questions and answers in the back of the manual.

The practical exam involves 5 case studies. This may take a lot of time, however, the process will make the aquatic personal trainer become efficient and proficient. We recommend that you use yourself as your first practical case study.  We recommend friends, family and/or yourself as your other case studies. The practical assessment will involve taking your client/yourself though the water assessments, goal setting, health history questionaires. Then then create program cards for your clients for week one, four and eight. The goal of the program cards are to provide quick reference for exercise progression or  to  help your client improve their performance and fitness. Your program card should reflect how the person did on their water assessment, what you are training as well as some techniques or exercises to motivate or achieve adherence to a program.  You will film one of your sessions ( either teaching or training yourself or a volunteer client). Additionally, you create a counselling agreement and short business plan - to succeed with your new business.

All the  paper work or assessment profiles are in the back of the manual or we may email them to you to fast track the exam process and paperwork. 

If you would like to  register  for on ONSITE program or an event, please click here.

If you want to order correspondence or home study option of  our certification program or WaterART Personal Trainer Specialist Certification (CT003), please click here.

The following information will be covered for the PRACTICAL  training. 

• how to administer  Liability Waiver & Release form of your client

• how to administer  Personal Health History Forms

• how to administer   Physical Assessment including posture, balance, flexibility, muscular strength and balance techniques

• how to administer and improve the Postural Alignment - of your client

• how to develop sample contract & client agreement

• how to develop Week 1 ( Day 1) a sample program card

• how to develop Week 4 (Day 1 ) ( Day 1) a sample program card

• how to develop  Week 8 (Day 1 ) ( Day 1) a sample program card

• how to create progressions with and without equipment

• how to evaluate between buoyancy and resistive equipment

• how to guide your  client  through a goal setting process 

• how to create a  Short Business & Marketing Plan ( 1-2 pages)

HOW TO COMPLETE PERSONAL TRAINER SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION EXAMS

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