Ace Personal Trainer

Catalog description

This course will teach students to assess individual fitness levels and create customized plans to help clients achieve personal fitness goals. The course is comprised of a combination of classroom lectures and hands-on training in the Wheeler Recreation Center. This course is designed to give students the knowledge and understanding necessary to prepare for the ACE Personal Trainer Certification Exam and become effective personal trainers. This course presents the ACE Integrated Fitness TrainingT (ACE IFTT) Model as a comprehensive system for designing individualized programs based on each client’s unique health, fitness, and goals. The information covered by this course and the ACE IFT Model will help students learn how to facilitate rapport, adherence, self-efficacy, and behavior change in clients, as well as design programs that help clients to improve posture, movement, flexibility, balance, core function, cardiorespiratory fitness, and muscular endurance and strength. Students will complete a 60 hour internship as part of the course requirements. The American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) exam must be taken within 60 days of course completion. Course fee required.