Intermediate & Advanced Strength Training for Kids CEC (6 credits)
This course is designed to further the knowledge of all fitness professionals with an emphasis on strength
training for young athletes. This is not a certification course. It is an education program to be used by all
fitness professionals striving to raise their level of professionalism.
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 a
total fitness program. Intermediate and Advanced Strength Training for Kids continuing education course, provides
clear instruction for over 100 strength exercises for all 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.
Here is a brief look at the course outline on the "Intermediate & Advanced Strength Training for Kids"
continuing education program:
- Strength Training for Children: the Controversy Resolved.
- Growth and Development
- Developing and Administering a Strength Training Program
- Teaching Exercise Techniques
- Strength Training Exercises
- Strength Training Programs for Fitness and Sports
- and much more!!
Distance Learning (6 CEU's) $119
CEC Learning Objectives
- Learn how to select the appropriate safe and effective exercise, weight and equipment for your young athletes.
- Learn the scientific and practical basis for all the many valid reasons for children to strength train dispelling the MYTH:
“children should not lift weights.”
- Learn how to design safe and effective strength training programs for young athletes.
- Learn how to train all major muscle groups in young athletes.
- Learn how to train for 16 different sports.
CEC Learning Outcomes
- Become proficient at instructing young athletes in the proper techniques for over 100 strength exercises, structured
specifically for young athletes ages: 7 to 18.
- Format a complete system for strength training young athletes.
- Overcome all misconceptions and myths concerning children and strength training.
- Understand growth and development in young athletes.
- Develop, administer and execute a strength training program for children.
CEC Goals
- Know how to design individualized strength training programs for children.
- Master proficiency in teaching exercise techniques to children.
- Master form, technique, spotting and teaching strength training exercises
- Understand the program design for strength training for fitness and sports in young athletes.
- Understand the program design for strength training for sports for young athletes within seasonal training.
Intermediate and Advanced Strength Training for Kids continuing education course, provides clear instruction for
over 100 strength exercises for all major muscle groups for ages 7 through 18.
Includes:
- Strength Training for Young Athletes textbook
- Course Outline
- Worksheets
- 50 question multiple-choice Continuing Education Exam.
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