IFPA Continuing Education Courses

Continuing education is essential for all fitness professionals to receive updated education to maintain their professional skill level. Certification agencies require continuing education to ensure their certified members are constantly learning and improving upon their knowledge base. All IFPA Continuing Education programs promote the highest level of service and professionalism within the industry.

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Teaching Proper Sprinting Technique NEW!

Presented by Jim Bell, PhDc

IFPA President

IFPA President Jim Bell breaks down sprinting technique from the basics to the "nitty gritty" like no one else can, including a special segment devoted to the proper starting position.

Sprinting forms the fundamental base of athleticism. If your clients learn to sprint biomechanically correct, they will learn how to use their kinetic chain more efficiently and effectively. Virtually all athletic ability is determined by how efficiently and effectively an athlete can transfer force from the ground through their kinetic chain. This video will teach you how to teach them to master sprinting and their kinetic chain.

Includes: 70 minute DVD, workbook & test

$89.00

The Business of Fitness: Getting Started NEW!

Presented by Jim Bell, PhDc

IFPA President

IFPA President Jim Bell prepares you for success in this first installment of the "Business of Fitness" series. Learn how to work in the corporate gym setting, how to start your own business and how to make a successful transition from one to the other.

You may be the world's greatest personal trainer, but without knowing and understanding the "business of fitness" your career may never get off the ground. Being able to sell yourself and your services effectively is crucial to your success. In this video series (also featuring "Marketing" and "Sales") you will learn from the experience of IFPA President Jim Bell as he shares tried and true techniques for success.

$89.00

The Business of Fitness: Marketing NEW!

Presented by Jim Bell, PhDc

IFPA President

IFPA President Jim Bell prepares you for sucess in this second installment of the "Business of Fitness" series. Learn how to build your own, custom made marketing plan using proven methods for effectively setting goals, objectives and strategies.

You may be the world's greatest personal trainer, but without knowing and understanding the "business of fitness" your career may never get off the ground. Being able to sell yourself and your services effectively is crucial to your success. In this video series (also featuring "Getting Started" and "Sales") you will learn from the experience of IFPA President Jim Bell as he shares tried and true techniques for success.

Includes: 80 minute DVD, workbook & test

4 CEUs 

$89.00

The Business of Fitness: Sales NEW!

Presented by Jim Bell, PhDc

IFPA President

IFPA President Jim Bell prepares you for success in this third installment of the "Business of Fitness" series. Learn how to analyze personalities (both yours and your potential clients) to develop the most effective sales techniques for you.

You may be the world's greatest personal trainer, but without knowing and understanding the "business of fitness" your career may never get off the ground. Being able to sell yourself and your services effectively is crucial to your success. In this video series (also featuring "Getting Started" and "Marketing") you will learn from the experience of IFPA President Jim Bell as he shares tried and true techniques for success.

Includes: 80 minute DVD, workbook & test

4 CEUs 

$89.00

Science & Practice of Youth & Exercise NEW!

Presented by Jim Bell, PhDc

IFPA President

Even if your young clientele no longer have the interest in becoming world class athletes, you still need to lead them to the fitness lifestyle, their lives depend on it. This session will teach you how to teach them to exercise safely and effectively.

Includes: 90 minute DVD, workbook & test

4 CEUs 

$89.00

Advanced Plyometric Training

This course gives you the advanced exercises and conditioning programs used by top athletes, coaches and conditioning experts. It includes principles of high-intensity plyometric training and the development of long and short term training programs for a variety of different sports. You will learn exercises to increase upper, middle, and lower body power. Exercise descriptions and intensity guidelines provide step-by-step instructions to ensure correct technique and proper workload.

Includes: High-Powered Plyometrics, course outline, worksheets and exam

Beginning Strength Training for Kids provides invaluable advice and information on strength development of children.  This course presents safe and effective ways to create a program prescription for children ages seven through fifteen.  In addition to exercise guidelines and nutrition requirements, instructions for 82 exercises are explained in detail.  For general and/or sport-specific conditioning, using free-weights, weight machines, cords, balls, or body weight, this course will show you how to encourage children to improve their overall fitness as well as their self-esteem.

Includes: Strength & Power for Young Athletes, course outline, worksheets and exam

This continuing education program will provide the information needed to recognize sports-related injuries.  The focus of this course is how to recognize the symptoms of injuries, how to care for injuries, and how to prevent them in the first place.  Each section is devoted to different body parts and concludes with exercises for caring and rehabilitating specific injuries.  By understanding the causes of injury, you can apply this knowledge not only to treat a problem, but also to avoid it.  This knowledge is invaluable to keeping the body injury-free.

Includes: Everybody’s Sports Medicine Book, course outline, worksheets and exam

This course teaches the strategies to build the athlete’s center of power. It will provide over 165 different exercises focusing on the core region to strengthen the abdominal and lower back regions. The exercises not only help to form the foundation for enhanced athletic performance, but will also create strong supportive back muscles to prevent low back injury and pain.

Includes: Stronger Abs and Back, course outline, worksheets, and exam

This course is designed to provide a structure for designing effective cross-training programs. It helps the trainer determine present fitness level, create smooth activity transitions during workouts, and use motivational strategies. There are six workout zones containing 60 varied workouts that incorporate running, cycling, swimming, weight training, aerobics, and walking. Sample cross-training programs demonstrate how to select and organize your workouts.

Includes: Fitness Cross-Training, course outline, worksheets and exam

This course specifically addresses the training needs of mature adults.  It provides low-stress no-stress exercises designed to help your clients avoid pulled muscles, undo soreness, overtaxed joints, and excess fatigue.  Four major categories of exercise are covered in this course: aerobics, muscle conditioning, stretching, and water workouts.  You will also learn program design for the specific needs of the mature population.

Includes: Full Life Fitness, course outline, worksheets and exam

Designing exercise programs for golfers, including flexibility, strength, postural stability, coordination and golf conditioning, is the focus of this course.  For the trainer who has never played golf, this course will teach all of the mechanics of the golf swing.  Golf & Exercise will provide you with over 10 different functional assessments, over 50 different strength exercises and 24 different golf specific stretches. 

This continuing education program will help you to safely and effectively design intermediate and advanced resistance-training programs for children, especially young athletes.  Resistance training should be a part of a total fitness program.  Intermediate & Advanced Strength Training for Kids provides clear instructions for over 100 strength exercises for all the major muscle groups for ages 7 through 18.  It will assist you in creating 16 sport-specific exercise programs as well as teach you techniques to keep children motivated to stay on the healthy path of exercise.

Includes: Strength Training for Young Athletes, course outline, worksheets and exam

This course uses the advice of world-class athletes to cover the essentials of proper nutrition for training and competition. This course discusses nutrition planning and lifestyle modification, the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, and how to count calories and calculate daily intake of carbohydrates, proteins and fats even in the world of fast food restaurants.

Includes: Winning Sports Nutrition 2000 (video), course outline, and exam

This course teaches how to follow nutrition guidelines to reach training goals. Great for the casual exerciser, elite athlete, or anyone with a health and fitness goal, this course includes many recipes to make healthy eating easier. All of the essential basics of nutrition are broken down for clear understanding and then applied to specific fitness goals and overall good health.

Includes: Nancy Clarks’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook, course outline, worksheets, and exam

Performance Stretching is designed to further the knowledge of all fitness professionals with an emphasis on different stretching techniques.  With over 300 stretching exercises, this course will show you how to reduce the risk of athletic injury and improve sport performance.  This course also provides a detailed review on the adaptations to stretching and an updated analysis on muscle structure and muscle soreness as each relates to flexibility and stretching.

A complete collection of plyometric exercises and drills provide special training techniques to improve strength, power, speed, quickness, and jumping ability while also gaining greater coordination, body control, and balance. The instructions and examples presented in this course help build the ideal plyometric programs for specific sports and training needs.

Includes: Jumping Into Plyometrics, course outline, worksheets, and exam

The primary purpose of PNF Stretching is to translate the complexities of PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching into an easy, step-by-step method for athletes, coaches, group fitness instructors and personal trainers.  This course will provide you with over 70 different functional assessments and stretching techniques to help improve the flexibility of all areas of the upper and lower body.  The stretches are divided between 14 different muscle groups and include self-stretches for when the trainer/coach is not present.

Includes:  Facilitated Stretching, course outline, worksheets and exam

This course follows guidelines set forth by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and will help the trainer safely and effectively train expectant mothers. This program discusses the benefits of prenatal exercise, health and safety guidelines for pregnant women, how to adjust exercise to match fitness level and stage of pregnancy, 43 land exercises and 37 water exercises, guidelines for creating an individualized workout program, how to set and attain healthy fitness goals, and breathing exercises and relaxation techniques that help during pregnancy and labor and delivery.

Includes: Fit for Two: The Official YMCA Prenatal Exercise Guide, course outline, worksheets and exam

This course provides the trainer with general guidelines for senior strength training. These guidelines include teaching strategies and training procedures, detailed instructions for free-weight and machine exercises, modifications to meet each client’s needs, alternative exercises using bodyweight and elastic bands, progress assessments, and nutrition.

Includes: Strength Training for Seniors, course outline, worksheets, and exam

This course is designed to further the knowledge of all fitness professionals with an emphasis on conditioning programs for young athletes ages 6 to 18.  For each stage of development a child goes through, there is a corresponding phase of athletic training.  This program will assist you in designing conditioning regimens specifically for children and especially for those having the potential of a future sports star.  To maximize a child’s coordination, flexibility, speed, endurance, and strength, over 300 exercises are included to create safe and effective training programs.  In addition to invaluable conditioning advice to create an overall fitness base, this course will provide you with excellent suggestions to reduce stress during competition and prevent early burnout.

Includes: Total Training for Young Champions, course outline, worksheets and exam

This continuing education program is designed to further the knowledge of all fitness professionals with an emphasis on the art of Tai Chi and Chi Kung.  This course will introduce you to the mental, spiritual and physical benefits of Tai Chi, Chi Kung, and the power of Chi.  It is designed to provide you with the underlying principles and movements of the Foundation Level of Tai  Chi – Chi Kung including the “20 Moves of Chi Kung” and the “13 Moves of Tai Chi.”