Description
Your certification to attend the Sports Medicine Academy of America will prepare you for a brilliant career in personal training. Based on principles contained in the proprietary Optimum Performance Training™ (OPT) model, NASM’s evidence-based approach to exercise program design can properly prepare you to help your trainees achieve their goals regardless of their level, from beginners to professional athletes.
✔ Professional Development and Responsibility
The Current State of Health and Fitness
✔ Chapter 2: The Professional Personal Trainer
Chapter 3: The Psychology of Exercise
Chapter 4: Behaviour Guidance
✔ Module 3: Basic and Applied Science and Nutritional Concepts
Chapter 5: The Nervous, Muscular and Skeletal System
Chapter 6: Cardiopulmonary, Endocrine and Digestive Systems
Chapter 7: Human Movement Science
Chapter 8: Exercise Metabolism and Bioenergetics
Chapter 9: Nutrition
Chapter 10: Dietary supplements
✔ Module 4: Evaluation
Chapter 11: Health, Wellbeing and Fitness Assessment
Chapter 12: Stance, Motion and Performance Evaluation
✔ Module 5: Exercise Technique and Training Instructions
ChapChapter 13: The Integrated Training and the OPT Model
Chapter 14: Principles of Flexibility Training
Chapter 15: Cardiopulmonary Fitness Training
Chapter 16: Principles of Core Training
Chapter 17: Principles of Balance Training
Chapter 18: Principles of Plyometric Training (Reaction)
Chapter 19: Speed, Agility and Explosion Training Principles
Chapter 20: Resistance Training
✔ Module 6: Program Design
Chapter 21: The Optimal Performance Training Model (OPT Model)
Chapter 22: Introduction to Exercise Aids
Chapter 23: Chronic Diseases and Special Populations
✔ Accredited examination by NCCA
The NCCA is the American Commission for Professional Accreditation, which helps to ensure that accreditation by third-party independent organizations that explicitly certify certification programs plays a key role in the credibility of each program. A final examination is required to obtain CPT certification.
✔ Online Learning Platform (Latest Technology)
Our revolutionary learning platform creates an interactive, multimedia-rich experience that is specifically designed to provide a comfortable learning experience!y!
✔ Video Lectures
It includes over 45 high-quality lectures to help you in your learning experience.
✔ Summary of Chapters in Podcasts
A summary of the material is included at the end of each chapter in podcast format.
✔ Library with Storybook
Get access to over 200 videos with step-by-step exercises and their execution. It also includes videos on how to teach them to your trainees.
✔Ability todownload useful files
Such as, evaluation charts, programming templates, weight loss programs, muscle mass gain and sports performance improvement, and much more.
✔ Simulation test, Capital and Knowledge Quiz
Includes a simulation test with unlimited attempts. Quizzes at the end of each chapter to help you remember key concepts, and hundreds of mini-quizzes to help you retain the content of each lesson.
Prerequisites:
- University degree in Sports Science (TEFAA) or other equivalent qualification
- Completion of the 2nd year of study at the University of Sports Science (without the right to practice the profession without supervision)
