Clinical Personal Fitness Trainer

The course syllabus is structured as follows:

• Introduction
  • Career Openings
• The Clinical Personal Trainer
  • What Is a CPFT?
  • What is Our Role as Clinical Personal Fitness Trainers?
  • Clinical PF Trainers - the Way Ahead in Preventative Health Care and Lifestyle Counselling
  • Motivation and Fun

• Lifestyle Changes
  • Tension - is it Good For You?
  • Balance
• Obesity
  • Losing Weight
  • Vitamins and Minerals

• Exercise and Training for Health and Fitness
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Risk Factors Associated with Heart Attack
  • How to Avoid Heart Disease

• Body Fat
  • Burning Calories
  • Dieting
  • How to Plan your Training
  • Peaking Your Way to Fat Loss
  • Lose the Fat Gradually
  • Body Fat and Physical Performance
  • Fat Burners

• Body Fat (Continued)
  • How to Burn Fat
  • Fact and Fiction
  • Some Rules for Fighting'Flab'

• Obesity
  • What Does it Mean?
  • What Can be Done?
  • Change your Cue Controls
  • Diabetes
  • Who Should be Screened for Diabetes?
  • Diabetes - The Facts
  • Adult Onset Diabetes Doesn't Always Mean Injections
  • Exercise and Diabetes

• Disability
  • Exercise and Disabled People
  • Equal Opportunities in Fitness
  • What Can a CPFT Do to Help?
  • Young Disabled
  • Lift Weights, Lift Depression
  • Setting Up a GP Referral Scheme
• Arthritis
  • Why Joints Hurt
  • How You Can Help Yourself
  • Your Fitness and How Arthritis Affects You - Self-Assessment
  • Motivation
  • Gentle Exercises
• Exercise for People with Special Needs and Problems
  • Exercise Whatever Your Age
  • Guidelines for Diabetic Clients
  • Ensuring Clients' Safety

• Regular Exercise Enhances Mental Well-Being
  • Physiology of Exercise
  • Cellular Changes
  • Anaerobic and Aerobic Exercise
  • Heart, Respiration and Exercise
  • Benefits of Exercise
  • Getting in Shape
  • Fitness Goals
  • Exercise Intensity
  • The Human Body
  • Muscular System
  • Heart
  • Cardiovascular System: Veins
  • Digestive System
  • Skeletal System
• Carbohydrates
  • What are Carbohydrates?
  • Why do we Need Carbohydrates?
  • Sources of Carbohydrates
  • How Much Carbohydrate do we Need?
• Cholesterol
• Vitamins
  • Fat-Soluble Vitamins
• Minerals

• Safety First Every Time
  • The Twelve Rules
  • Listen To Your Body - Safety Rules
  • Health and Safety
  • Programming
• Proper Safety Equipment
  • Weight Machines
  • Free Weights
  • How to Spot
  • Work Benches
  • Cable Pulleys

• Exercise Prescription
  • Categories
  • Putting it All Together
• Prevention or Cure
  • Two Major Health Problems
  • The Big Three
  • Cholesterol Education Programme
  • Dietary Treatment Programme
• Exercise Prescription (Continued)
  • Mode of Exercise
  • Energy Systems
  • Types of Training
  • Warm up - Warm down
  • Strength Training Basic Schedule

• Designing A Strength-Training Programme For Beginners and Novices
  • Building Strength
  • Reps and Sets
  • Weight
  • When to Increase the Weight
  • Use Good Form - Control the Weight
  • How Many Sets for each Exercise?
  • How Much Rest between Sets?
  • Weight Training Basic Guide Lines
  • Large or Small Muscles Exercised First?
  • How Many Times a Week Does Your Client Need to Train?
  • Abdominal Training
  • Circuit Weight Training
  • Weight Training Exercises (Lower Body)
  • Weight Training Exercises (Upper Body)
• Training Programmes
  • Client's Fitness Assessment
  • A Training Programme for General Fitness
  • A Training Programme for Toning and Strengthening the Muscles
  • A Training Programme to Shape and Strengthen the Body
  • A Training Programme to Increase Muscle Mass (Bodybuilding)
  • A Training Programme Following Injury
  • A Training Programme to Increase and Maintain Fitness for a Specific Sport
  • Useful Training Tips

• Flexibility Improvement Programme
  • What you Need
  • Warm Up
  • Exercise Technique
  • Why Stretch?
  • The Developmental Stretch
  • Breathing
  • Warming Up
  • Benefits of Stretch Training Programmes
  • Warming Down and Stretching
  • Stretching Rules
  • PNF Stretching
  • Stretching Exercises
  • Sit-and-Reach Test for Hamstring Flexibility
  • Finger-Touch Test for Rotator Cuff Flexibility
• Clients' Goals
  • Long-Term Goals
  • Short-Term Goals
  • Immediate Goals (Mini-goals)
  • Why you Need a Plan B