Lift course
Course Overview:
1 Day face to face training Duration: 8 hours
Aim:
This one-day LIFT course aims to give qualified fitness professionals the skills and knowledge to be able to:
- Understand techniques relating to the fundamental movements
- Perform Olympic lifts
- Analyze and correct a client’s movement relating to the Olympic lifts
Topics:
- Introduction to Olympic Weightlifting
- Benefits and Precautions
- Equipment Requirements
- Fundamental Movements
- The Snatch
- The Clean
- The Jerk
- Recommended reading
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for any fitness professional that is a certified personal trainer.
What are the pre-requisites?
To be eligible for this course, learners must hold a recognized level 3 Personal Trainer qualification and provide a copy of the certificate as proof. A reasonable level of fitness is required and experience of Olympic Weighlifting is advantageous.
Box course
Course Overview:
1 Day face to face training Duration: 8 hours
Aim:
This one-day BOX course aims to give qualified fitness professionals the skills and techniques to perform, teach and design boxing based sessions for both 1:1 and group settings in a safe and effective manner. Furthermore, it has been created to upskill the trainer’s knowledge in physiology, application in communication and motivational strategies in order to build a positive and lasting relationship with their clients.
Topics:
- Benefits of Boxing
- Hand wrapping technique for beginners
- Health and safety considerations and how to hold Pads/Mitts
- Teaching and coaching points for each of the foundation drills
- Learning basic punches, strikes, and kicks
- Design a basic combination of mitts training
- Deliver a signature product BOX class
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for any fitness professional that holds a level 2 fitness qualification or higher.
What are the pre-requisites?
To be eligible for this course, learners must hold a recognized level 2 fitness qualification and provide a copy of the certificate as a proof. A reasonable level of fitness, reading and writing skills is also recommended.
Active IQ Level 3 Award in Nutrition for Sport and Exercise Performance
Course Overview:
3 Days Course
Aim:
To enable learners to develop their understanding of nutrition for sport and exercise performance.
Topics:
- Understand the importance of sport nutrition
- Understand the importance of energy balance
- Calculate energy requirements
- Understands the functions of macronutrients, micronutrients, water in relationship to sport/exercise performance and recovery
- Carbohydrates what to eat, how much, how often
- Meal planning and refueling
- Eating before training
- Complex carbohydrate and glycemic index
- Carbohydrate drinks
- Protein what to eat, how much, how often
- Importance of protein as a nutrient for athletes and sportspeople
- Theories surrounding excess protein
- Protein needs for beginners, calculating protein requirements
- Protein and amino acids supplementation
- Fat what to eat, how much, how often
- Good sources of fat
- Calculating fat requirements
- Meal planning
- Vitamins and minerals
- Importance
- Supplements
- Water
- Hydration and its effect on sport people
- Needs
- Type of fluids best recommended,
- Low sodium of fluid
- Overhydration
- Hypotonic, isotonic, and hypertonic fluids
- Body fat levels and gaining muscles
- Pre-competition and competition guidelines and meal planning
- Competition fluid intake and competition recovery nutrition
- Racquet sports (nutrition concern, and meal planning)
- Power, strength, and speed (nutrition concern, and meal planning)
- Skill, concentration, and maneuver sport (nutrition concern, and meal planning)
- Endurance and extreme sports (nutrition concern, and meal planning)
- Physique competition (long term issues, challenges, water shading, safe ways)
- Supplements and ergogenic aids
Who is this course for?
Personal Trainers and Group Exercise instructors or any person who wants to expand their knowledge about nutrition and its relation and balance with exercise.
What are the pre-requisites?
- Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing.
- Active IQ Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing.
- Active IQ Level 2 Certificate in Group Training.
