Description
The largest area of growth for the fitness professional is personal training (one on one training or small group exercise). During this core course candidates 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 convenient home study training program will help you to apply advanced scientific principles for sports specificity and individual training techniques to help you facilitate one on one or small group individualized training.
Candidates will learn all the water specific protocols to assess and program their client(s) in terms of posture, muscular balance, muscular strength, flexibility, balance, and CV. The manual has the many user ready forms to help track and progress your clients and give them results. Learn how to develop specialized programs that are skilfully and progressively crafted.
You will be participating in a variety of additional presentations from Cindy Cook – the Master Trainer of this event.
Additional workshops facilitated are:
WATER WALKING (Friday)
Walking is the most used daily activity. Walking and gait training is essential to retaining independence. Train for effective movement, balance and good posture in the water. Keeping the program simple yet strong will challenge all comers from the recreational participant through to the athlete.
PROGRAMMING FOR COMMON MEDICAL CONDITIONS (Friday)
Incorporate safe, effective, and multi-level programming into one group exercise program. Review a balanced program to train all components of fitness within the appropriate exercise inventory of activities of daily living. Learn general guidelines for helping clients with common medical conditions. Modify or progress exercise to help people gain the most out of their program in a pain–free way.
ADVANCING YOUR CAREER TO AQUATIC PERSONAL TRAINING (Saturday) This program will help you to apply advanced scientific principles to individual training whether training for group exercise or ONE on ONE . By understanding a client’s baseline fitness level (via a water assessment, health history screening and goal setting) you will learn how to program more specifically for both shallow and/or deep water depths. We will examine how to progress each exercise utilizing a variety of equipment & techniques. WaterART also offers a full personal training certification for water specific design—this session will give you an idea of the program differences of land and water programming and how unique water training is compared to land.
SPORTS TRAINING & WELCOME TO THE WATERGYM (Saturday)
Developed for both shallow and deep water depths; sports activities may be blended with the water for cross training benefits and variety. If you are not using the water as a training tool, then you are missing the secret to injury prevention. Learn advanced exercises for “tools” to train your high performance athletes or weekend warriors.
SKU:240426-1500-CTW003-Columbia-SC
Prerequisites
In order to gain the most out of this program and become successful, candidates must have completed the following:
- WaterART Shallow & Deep H2O Certification or equivalent
Course Registration Fee Includes:
- 16 hours of instruction guided by a Certified Master Trainer
- Practical pool & classroom sessions
- Aquatic Personal Trainer Specialist Manual
- Study Guide Questions & Answers
- Video streaming via WaterART Fitness App unlimited for Members (6 months for non members) OR Vimeo for computers OR DVDs of the following videos:
- V017-Personal Trainer Assessments Educational Program – Understanding your clients needs and goals
- V018-Foam Weights Workout
- V019-Personal Trainer Posture Analysis & Exercise Inventory
- V020-Personal Trainer Equipment Analysis & Exercise Inventory
- V030-Sports Conditioning Workout
- V031-Beginner Program Workout
- V086-Aquatic Personal Trainer Program (2 parts – Tutorial Video & Sample Program Video)
- V087-Aquatic Personal Trainer Assessment Tutorial (Tutorial for 120 minutes)
- V088-Aquatic Personal Trainer Program Tutorial ( Tutorial – 2 parts of program planning)
- Laminated pool reference cards
- Compehensive Certification exam which includes applied theory exam, 5 case studies & 1 video of a client case study
- Certification E-Diploma & Online profile when successful with exams
- Certificate of course completion
What to Bring:
- Lunch or snack
- Water sessions: Water Fitness wear or bathing suit(s)
- Land sessions: comfortable clothing in which to move around
- Water bottle
- Towel/cover up
- Pen and paper
- Water-shoes are preferred wear for water sessions