The IFPA Fitness Assessment Specialist Certification provides a comprehensive and advanced approach to physical and health assessment and exercise prescription. This course offers a well balanced approach to the assessment of physical fitness and the design of exercise programs, addressing cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular fitness, body weight and composition and flexibility.
Course Learning Objectives
- Learn how to give preliminary health evaluation
- Learn testing procedures for Blood Pressure, Heart Rate and Electrocardiogram
- Learn graded exercise testing and maximal exercise test protocols
- Learn the sources of measurement error in muscular fitness testing
- Learn how to design balance training programs
Course Outcomes
- Know how to assess cardiorespiratory fitness
- Know how to design cardiorespiratory exercise programs
- Know how to assess muscular fitness
- Know how to design resistance training programs
- Know how to assess flexibility and design stretching prescriptions
Course Goals
- Understand the preliminary health screen and risk classification
- Understand principles of assessment, prescription, and exercise program adherence
- Understand how to design programs for flexibility and low back care
- Understand how to assess balance and design balance programs
- Understand how to design weight management and body composition programs for obese, overweight, and underweight individuals.
