Continuing Education Units: 6 Credits
The Core Training Course includes the benefits of a strong core and a complete program of fitness that includes strength training, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility. It also provides a formula for creating individualized programs. This will help maintain or even improve abdominal/low back strength and flexibility to enjoy a more healthy active life.
Course Learning Objectives
- Learn specific training techniques to develop abdominal and back muscles
- Learn the scientific basis for the argument that the body’s stability and power come from its center
- Learn how to develop the body’s core musculature for maximum fitness and athletic performance
- Learn how to develop strong abdominal and torso muscles for maximum fitness and performance
- Learn how to develop strong abdominal and torso muscles to enhance physical appearance and increase mobility
Course Outcomes
- Know how to develop stronger abdominal and back muscles to prevent low back pain – the most common physical ailment in the industrialized world
- Know the extensive benefits provided by stronger abdominal and back muscles
- Know the application of abdominal and back muscle training programs from the office workers who stiffen up while sitting at a desk all week; to the weekend warriors who play 36 holes on a free day at the course; to the serious athletes who want the utmost power to perform closer to their potential
- Know how to coach and develop training programs with the best and most comprehensive fitness level of your athletes in mind
- Know the 165 exercises for developing flexibility, strength and power
Course Goals
- Understand how to develop a strong core for sports performance
- Understand how to develop a strong core for fitness
- Understand how conduct safe and effective warm-up, stretching and cool down
- Understand how to develop a high level of competency for trunk stabilization and balance exercises and guidelines
- Understand how to develop a high level of competency for the Abs and Back Training Program
Package Contents
- Textbook
- Course Outline
- 50 question (multiple choice, open book) CEU Exam
Prerequisites:
- CPR/First Aid Certified
