Amanda Russell, a fitness lifestyle expert and host of AR fit says, "Fitness is about so much more than exercise. It's a catalyst for positive change, and it affects every aspect of your life," . When thinking about becoming a Personal Trainer, remember exercise isn’t the only way for clients to have a healthier lifestyle change for the better. Personal Trainers have the ability to expand their horizons and knowledge to further guide their clients to success of reaching their goals through many CPT certifying bodies. Whether it be a specialty with working with cancer patients, teaching about the effects of a sound diet along with their exercise plans, or a more fun way to exercise to make working out effective and enjoyable.
ACSM is one of the most common certifying bodies of becoming a personal trainer. You can expand your knowledge and become a Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer. The goals of a CET is to have a basic understanding of cancer treatments, diagnoses, symptoms, and possible side effects of the treatments they go through during that time. Knowing these can help you design and administer fitness assessments and an exercise program specific to the client’s diagnosis, treatment, and their current recovery status.
To obtain a certification as a CET, you need to meet requirements. The requirements include an ACSM/NCCA Health Fitness related certification, Bachelors Degree with 500 hours of experience training older individuals with chronic conditions or just have 10,000 hours, and lastly, adult CPR/AED certified with hands-on. To take the exam for CET certification, it costs $150 if you are ACSM certified professional, $195 for Non-ACSM certified professional, and $125 for re-test. The score for the exam is b...
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For this project, the certified athletic trainer who I have shadowed for almost eight hours in just one day is Candace O'Bryan, currently the athletic trainer at Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron. Candace has worked at Hoban now entering her third year at the high school. She works alone as a trainer there but works along side one team doctor who is at every game, and the other one being a neurosurgeon but is just a parent helping out.
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Neporent, Liz, and John Egan. Crunch: A complete guide to health and fitness. 1st Ed. New York: Doubleday, 1997. Print.
Being and athletic trainer is a great and hardworking career. That involves meeting new people, dealing with different challenge each day, Also it has moderate schooling. Meeting new people is one of the many ways being an athletic trainer is very rewarding. One of the many examples is assisting and caring others. Why is because no one is going to come to athletic trainer if they are not going to assisted them or care for them.
Bella, Laura La. Dream Jobs in Sports Fitness and Medicine. New York: Rosen Pub., 2013. Print.
People often go through their life working-out and going to the gym to get “buff.” For ninety-five percent of Americans that do work out, few can say that they have pushed themselves as hard as possible, but I have the distinct, and often painful, pleasure of knowing that there is another way to work out. This option is unlike any other that I have ever personally been through; and is a way that I would not wish on any average American. 4:55 a.m. Seventeen degrees Fahrenheit, a mild breeze of ten miles per-hour-- for the fifth day in a row and second consecutive month, it is time for me to wake up, make the face-numbing, core-hardening walk through the snow to the Mildred and Louis Lasch Football Building.
When I started studying health and nutrition in September 2014, my goals were, to find out the proper foods that a person should consume to lose weight and to find out what type of workouts burn the most fat. In October, 2014, I volunteered to become a fitness instructor at a Herbalife fit camp, where I helped lead out workouts for my local community. My objective was to help out the personal trainers that ran the camp wherever they needed the help at and to learn more about the proper nutrition choices that they offered to the community.
Have you ever wondered or thought about what the profession of athletic training is or consists of? “An athletic trainer is a healthcare worker who diagnoses and treats people who have sustained injuries to muscles and bones. His or her patients are usually athletes but others may seek treatment as well. An athletic trainer works under the direction of a physician and also teaches people how to prevent injuries” (“Athletic Trainer”). Athletic Training has a promising outlook with a high job demand. Athletic Training is an important, busy, and helpful profession in today’s society.
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Being physically fit inside and out is something that every person can control and achieve, but only through strong self-discipline. “The $52.9 billion fitness industry is constantly coming out with activities and products designed to get and keep us interested in working out” (Whigham-Desir 84). Two of these types of workouts, specifically Tae-Bo and Spinning, were created just for the purpose of keeping “us” interested in working out. Despite this revolution in the fitness industry, many false preconceived notions about losing weight persist and impede the movement. As the media bombard the American public with unrealistic images, a new obsession with fitness has hit the markets.
Licensure, certification, certificates and accreditation are the typical types of credentialing programs, and associations are free to develop credentialing programs. There is no standardization in credentialing terms at the moment and terminology differs in each modality. Rops, 2007. Recreational therapy offers certification, and some States licensing is also required. A person who has graduated from an accredited school with a Bachelor Degree, and those who have taken the national exam, is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS). Many hospital settings use CTRSs in their recovery units, and specialty clinics. CTRSs go through a rigorous exam to become a CTRS. Hiring a CTRS has many benefits, and is helpful in a hospital setting
Whether it is on a track, a pitch, court or rink, nutrition is of vital importance in the development of a healthy, competitive athlete. Athletes must depend on highly nutritious and vitamin rich to keep their body at their healthiest, their mind focused to maximize their performance.
Hoeger, W.W.K., & Hoeger, S.A. (2014, 2012). Principles and labs for fitness and wellness. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. 376-379, 386-387. Print.
“If I don 't feel confident about my body, I 'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It 's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it 's fitness or whatever. It 's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it”. (Kim Kardashian) http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_fitness.html As we progressively I and my fellow classmates move forward into our course selection (Health and Wellness) class I would love to express the importance of keeping track of your fitness on a daily basis. As you move forward into your life and you get older each and every day you start to realize and worry about your physical fitness activity that you are doing especially
Regardless of what your preferred style of training may be, something that all people interested in fitness and health have in common is that training is never limited to only one specific title, it is unanimously about training for ultimate self-development and to be the best self for the people we share our lives and sport with.