Hyflex Program

Legal Guidelines & Business Management

Presents legal issues, business concerns, and summarizes the legal responsibilities of a personal trainer. Students learn the scope of practice of personal training. Student learns the steps behind starting their own personal training business.

Health Screening & Fitness Evaluations

Teaches the student to use client’s health history to create a safe and effective training program.

Cardio Fitness Training

Presents various training methods and cardio respiratory activities that can be used to meet specific needs.

Muscular Strength & Endurance

Presents the benefits of strength training and methods of incorporating various types of training equipment.

Strength Training Program Design

Presents ways to create and modify a strengthtraining program that will meet the Psychological and physical needs of the client.

Communication & Teaching

Presents the methods of establishing and maintaining a helping relationship with Clients, resulting in positive lifestyle changes. Includes teaching techniques.

Flexibility & Stretching

Presents the science and research behind flexibility raining methods that will help to attain fitness goals and decrease the risk of injury.

Human Anatomy & Physiology

Presents legal issues, business concerns, and summarizes the legal responsibilities of a personal trainer. Students learn the scope of practice of personal training. Student learns the steps behind starting their own personal training business.

Nutrition

Presents information on the basic nutrients and nutritional needs of physically active adults. Includes the standards of practice, energy & body composition, and daily energy needs.

Musculoskeletal Injuries, Emergency Procedures & Injury Rehab

Presents how to develop programs for clients with pre-existing musculoskeletal injuries, and also how to deal with other injuries and common medical emergencies.

Personal Training Advertising & Marketing

Presents advertising and marketing concerns of the Personal Trainer’s business. Includes how to utilize social media marketing tools

Adherence & Motivation

Presents the factors that influence exercise adherence, and the methods for keeping clients motivated.

Core Training & Stabilization

Core training, core musculature and the importance of training the stabilization systems.

Resistance Training Systems

Progressive Adaptations from resistance training with reference to stabilization, muscular endurance, hypertrophy, strength & power

Biomechanics

Muscular force, length tension relationships, force velocity curve, and force couple relationships

Exercise Metabolism

Energy during exercise, metabolism during steady state exercise, metabolism during intermittent work and estimating fuel contribution during exercise.

Special Health Concerns

Students learn client health concerns and the resulting modifications required from basic exercises and exercise programs

Supplementation

Dietary supplements, supplementation guidelines, dietary reference intake values and guidelines

CPR/AED & First Aid

Students are certified in CPR & First Aid by a Red Cross certified technician.

Legal GSpecial Populationsuidelines & Business Management

Physiologic and training considerations for individuals with specific health concerns. This includes but is not limited to obesity, coronary heart disease, asthma, pregnancy, osteoporosis, cancer and diabetes.

Final Review & Test (Theory)

Final exam to test the student on all aspects of training, Anatomy, Physiology and Nutrition

Final Review & Test (Practical)

Final practical exam where the student must perform 5 tests so that the students are capable of evaluating and testing clients in a fitness center

Practical Application

Presents legal issues, business concerns, and summarizes the legal responsibilities of a personal trainer. Students learn the scope of practice of personal training. Student learns the steps behind starting their own personal training business.