Client understanding recertification bundle (2.0 ACE CECs)
Understanding the LGBTQ+ fitness client – 0.3 ACE CEC
Course description
This course was created for fitness professionals who either expect to work with or already have LGBTQ+ clients, or who simply want to know more about LGBTQ+ people. Those fitness professionals who are not LGBTQ+ may feel unfamiliar with some of the language used and may also have misconceptions about LGBTQ+ people. On the other hand, those fitness professionals who are LGBTQ+ may want to use this course as a reference in their professional lives.
The goal of this course is to give fitness professionals a good starting place for creating more welcoming and inclusive fitness environments. While this course was specifically developed focusing on issues related to working with the LGBTQ+ client, the overarching theme is that we are all different and we have to respect each other’s differences and boundaries in order to create a warm and welcoming space in fitness. By the end of the course, we will see one theme emerge: people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and we as fitness professionals have to understand how to work with clients who are different from us.
Course Objectives
Participants who take this course will:
- Understand the importance of pronouns while working with LBGTQ+ clients
- Understand misconceptions about LGBTQ+ people
- Understand the role of trauma in the lives of LGBTQ+ people, and the roles of trauma informed care and consent
Course Content
- Introduction
- Glossary
- The importance of pronouns
- Common misconceptions about LGBTQ+ people
- Misconceptions about LGBTQ+ inclusivity
- Examples of LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the fitness setting
- The role of trauma in the lives of LGBTQ+ people
- Trauma Informed Care and Consent
- Conclusion
- Quiz: 20 questions
Understanding clients who smoke – 0.6 ACE CEC
Course description
Fitness professionals may have clients who smoke while also being physically active. It is essential to understand how to relate to these clients. Some may have no inclination to stop smoking and they might feel their privacy intruded when the issue of quitting smoking comes up. Others may welcome conversations on how to quit smoking, and fitness professionals may be key in helping those clients quit.
This course is aimed to help fitness professionals understand and facilitate the best approach to smokers who work out. In the course, we will briefly review the prevalence and reasons of smoking, and the major physiological impacts on the body, and the disease and disability smoking can cause. We will then discuss these in the context of smokers who work out and analyze how smoking may affect their sports performance.
Course Objectives
Participants who take this course will:
- Develop and understanding of the prevalence and reasons of smoking
- Familiarize themselves with the major physiological impacts of smoking on the body
- Understand the best approach to smokers who work out
Course Content
- Popularity of smoking in the population
- Why do People Continue to Smoke?
- Understanding Smoking
- Why is Smoking Dangerous?
- Quiz 1
- The Health Effects of Smoking
- Quiz 2
- Understanding Smoking Advertising
- The psychology of smoking and stopping smoking: behavior change models
- Quiz 3
- Working with clients who smoke
- Understanding smokers who work out: conclusions
- Quiz 4
Understanding addiction in fitness – 1.1 ACE CEC
Course description
During their careers, most fitness professionals will encounter clients who they suspect may have an addiction to fitness, food, or other related issues. Clients may show signs of excessive exercise, extreme weight loss, overtraining, food-related problems, or substance misuse. These may be hidden, or they may become apparent during fitness training sessions. Many fitness professionals, however, are unsure of how to approach and help with such addictions.
This course is aimed to offer fitness professionals an understanding of addiction related to health and fitness. The course presents the most up-to-date knowledge to help you provide the best services to your clients: not only to those clients who have fitness and health-related addictions, but also to those who struggle with establishing a healthy image about themselves. Therefore, this course has quite a broad aim, covering the sometimes-overlapping areas of addiction to exercise and substances; food and eating disorders; muscle dysmorphia; and mental health in general.
Course Objectives
Participants who take this course will have an understanding of:
- The nature of addictions (to substances and behaviors), eating disorders, and muscle dysmorphia
- The types and causes of addictions and food-related disorders common in fitness settings
- Key skills to best support in an informed and ethical way those clients who may have an addiction
Course Content
Course Content
Client wellbeing recertification bundle (2.0 ACE CECs)
Exercise and depression – 0.2 ACE CECs
Course description
Many current and future fitness clients may struggle with diagnosed or undiagnosed depression or have sub-threshold depressive symptoms. Exercise has long been recognized as beneficial for physical health, and scientific evidence has been accumulating on its positive effects on mental health. As such, it is important that fitness professionals are familiar with the relationship between exercise and depression.
Society in general and the fitness industry in particular have recognized the importance of mental health. This is a major achievement in order to reduce stigma and encourage people with depression to get help. This course was developed for fitness professionals so that they can support their clients who have depression to get the best possible results based on the latest scientific evidence.
The course was designed and developed by EpiConsult LLC, a biomedical consulting and medical communications agency. The course content was created by a team of experts and athletes from various fields, including, but not limited to, medicine, biochemistry, public health, epidemiology, and endurance and strength sports. The course material is based on solid scientific data and the results of research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Course Objectives
Participants who take this course will:
- develop a good understanding of how and why exercise helps with depression
- familiarize themselves with specific techniques for getting great outcomes in a variety of exercise types
- understand how to overcome common hurdles when working with clients who have depression
Course Content
- What is clinical depression?
- How is depression treated?
- Does exercise work for depression?
- The physiology of exercise and mood
- Techniques for working with depressed clients
- Training with clients who have depression
- Resistance training,
- Cardio,
- HIIT (high intensity interval training),
- Mind-body practices
- New horizons: emerging trends in the future of exercise and depression
- Conclusion
- Further reading and reference
- Quiz
Cannabidiol (CBD) 2021 – 1.8 ACE CECs
Course description
An increasing number of people, including clients of fitness professionals, take or consider taking the non-psychoactive cannabis compound cannabidiol (CBD). Fitness professionals are regarded as authorities and opinion leaders regarding not only fitness but also health issues, sports nutrition, and supplements, so their clients may turn to them for information on CBD as well.
However, many fitness professionals may be unprepared to provide their clients with up-to-date, scientifically accurate information about CBD, or its practical, sports-related application. The course was designed and developed by EpiConsult LLC, a biomedical consulting and medical communications agency, also the publisher of the web site treatmentwithcbd.com. The course is aimed to give certified fitness professionals biomedically accurate and up-to-date information on CBD’s background and regulation, mechanism of action, physiological effects, benefits of use and safety. The course also discusses the place of CBD in recreational and competitive sports.
This course was created by a team of experts and athletes from various fields, including, but not limited to, medicine, biochemistry, public health, epidemiology, and endurance and strength sports. The course material is based on solid scientific data and the results of research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Course Objectives
Participants who take this course will be able to:
- Have an overview of the background and regulation of cannabidiol
- Understand CBD’s mechanism of action and benefits
- Have a knowledge of the safety profile of CBD
- Understand the place of CBD in recreational and competitive sports
Course Content
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