Youth Fitness Instructor Certification 

The IFPA Youth Fitness Instructor uses the three most informative texts on training youth ever presented:

Strength & Power For Young Athletes

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“Strength & Power for Young Athletes combines up-to-the-minute research on youth strength training with a meticulous array of training exercises and tips. I recommend this book for youth coaches, parents, and young athletes interested in improving their health and lives through strength training”

- Steve Brennan Executive Director of the Midwest Youth Coaches Association

“This text makes a timely and significant contribution to the literature on training young, developing athletes. It serves as a valuable resource for those who are responsible for designing safe and effective strength programs. A great blend of research and practical application.”

 - Thomas R. Baechle, EdD, CSCS

Former President of the National Strength & Conditioning Association

It’s never too early to begin a sound strength-training program. Significant gains in muscle mass, strength, and power are possible from the age of seven. And the benefits of added strength and power are apparent in the amazing athleticism displayed by young athletes in all sports.

Authors Avery Faigenbaoum and Wayne Westcott provide detailed instructions for 82 free weight, body weight, machine, cord, and medicine ball exercises. Emphasizing safety and technique, the programs include stretching exercises and nutritional guidelines to prevent injuries and ensure an overall fitness base. Also included are proven training programs tailored to power, jumping, striking, and endurance sports.

Arm yourself with the tools to set up a strength-training program for your future superstar. Strength & Power for Young Athletes will improve body composition and self-esteem, and enhance sports performance, giving young people the advantage they need to excel in sports.

Strength Training For Young Athletes

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“What exercises, how much weight, and with what equipment? This book answers all these questions and more… I can recommend it without hesitation to any coach or parent.”

- Lyle J. Micheli, MD

Director, Division of Sports Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston and Author of Sportswise: An Essential Guide for Young Athletes, Parents and Coaches

“Thanks to Kraemer and Fleck, coaches, physical education teachers, and physical directors are now able to say with confidence: Young athletes can and should train with weights. If you have any doubts, read this book!”

- Charles T. Kuntzleman, EdD

Director, Fitness for Youth

Department of Kinesiology, University of Michigan

  Now you can design safe and effective strength training programs with Strength Training for Young Athletes. This easy-to-use guide

• Debunks the myths about weight training and kids,

• Helps you learn how to design strength training programs for all major muscle groups and 16 sports, and

• Present detailed instructions for more than 100 strength exercises, structured especially for kids ages 7 to 18.

Strength Training for Young Athletes has everything you need to know to design and implement safe and effective programs for your kids.

Total Training For Young Champions

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 “This unique book provides important lessons for those people training young athletes by giving them useful, practical guidance for creating a positive athletic experience.”

- Thomas W. Rowland, MD

Editor, Pediatric Exercise Science

Author of Developmental Exercise Physiology

“Total Training for Young Champions encompasses topics that are essential for coaching younger athletes. With Bompa’s explanatory writing style and superb training methods, coaches can give their young athletes the basis they need to excel in any sport.”

- Lynne Rolley

Director of Programs, USA Tennis Player Development

Few athletes will be among the best in their sport at such a young age as Martina Hingis and Tiger Woods. But accelerated athletic development is now possible because of better, smarter training starting at an early age.

Total Training for Young Champions provides coaches, instructors, teachers, and parents of potential future sports stars the best conditioning advice and training programs for establishing an overall fitness base and maximizing athletic development form ages 6 to 18. Over 300 exercises are included to safely and effectively increase a young athlete’s

• Coordination

• Flexibility

• Speed

• Endurance and

• Strength

Tudor Bompa, one of the world’s foremost sports conditioning experts who has trained 11 Olympic medallists, presents a safe, proven training regimen geared specifically to three distinct developmental phases. He also offers sport-specific training programs in 10 sports, including baseball, basketball, ice hockey, football, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and track and field.

Total Training for Young Champions is the comprehensive guide to developing the next generation of superior athletes. Use it to boost the physical tools every young athlete needs to succeed – and shine – in sports.

The IFPA Youth Fitness Instructor Certification provides the fundamental guidelines to meet the total fitness needs of young athletes. This program ensures that you can safely and effectively develop all components of fitness for every level of young clientele.

Subject areas include:

• Strength training overview
• Misconceptions about strength training for children
• Strength training guidelines for children
• Physical size
• Emotional maturity
• Exercise toleration
• Male and female considerations
• Motivation and program philosophy
• Needs analysis
• Program variation
• Periodization
• Exercise teaching techniques
• Injury prevention
• Sport specific training

Prerequisite: IFPA Personal Fitness Trainer Certification.

Includes: Total Training for Young Champions, Strength and Power for Young Athletes and Strength Training for Young Athletes textbooks, Study Guide, review workshop, certification exam.

"Hello! I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for a most informative, professional, and convenient home study series. You have taken IFPA to a higher level, worthy of recognition and sincere gratitude. Your courses come highly recommended by our mutual good friend Terry Giles. I have been a close friend of Terry’s and his family for 20 years and no matter the distance my devotion and respect for his knowledge, skills and abilities are paramount.

To this end, your personal expertise is obviously above and beyond anything I could have summized from my conversations with Terry. It has been a lot of years, but we have informally met on a couple of occasions through our mutual friend.

In closing, I again thank you and look forward to continued education through IFPA. I will follow in Terry’s shoes in recommending IFPA to fellow professionals. You have enhanced the quality of my personal training business.”

-Victor C. Raso

IFPA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer

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