National Academy of Sports Medicine
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Metabolic Makeover
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With people around the world obsessing over metabolism and weight loss, there remains great interest in discovering hacks and shortcuts that boost metabolism and accelerate weight loss. Apart from a basic understanding that metabolism translates to expended calories, how much is understood about the complexities of human metabolism? This course explores key concepts in metabolism and how they relate to weight management, discusses how to accurately measure metabolism, and introduces a variety of simple ideas and strategies employed to increase overall metabolism while promoting safe and effective weight loss. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology for Fitness Professions
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In this course, you will gain the necessary scientific education that provides the groundwork for the application of safe and effective programming for fitness clients. Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology are the sciences that provide the basis for fully understanding the parts of the body, how it works, and how it moves. It is vital for personal fitness trainers to have a strong understanding of anatomical structures, systems, and their functions to help guide clients in achieving their goals. By applying the understanding of Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology in a fitness setting, you will be able to design and implement safe and effective exercise programs that meet the diverse needs of each client. This course will help you understand these concepts as a basis for applying them in real-world settings. By the end of the course, you will be able to: • Explain the importance of understanding Anatomy as a fitness professional. • Explain the importance of understanding Physiology as a fitness professional. • Explain the importance of understanding Kinesiology as a fitness professional. • Apply the understanding of Anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology in a fitness setting.
Decoding Nutrition Labels
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On their surface, food labels might seem simple. However, when digging deeper into the history of when, why, and how they came about, and how they have evolved into their current form, you learn a lot about how our food system actually works.
NASM Personal Fitness Trainer Exam Preparation
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In this comprehensive review and exam preparation course, we will build upon the knowledge and skills gained in the previous four courses of the Personal Fitness Trainer Program. As aspiring fitness professionals, you have already completed courses on getting started in the field, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, understanding fitness programming, and nutrition and weight management. Throughout this course, we will focus on reviewing and reinforcing the key concepts covered in the previous courses, ensuring a solid understanding of the foundations required by the fitness industry to become a Personal Fitness Trainer. In addition to refreshing your knowledge, this course will specifically prepare you for the certification exam by covering the essential topics, relevant material, and exam-specific criteria to pass your certification exam. By the end of this course, you will feel confident and well-prepared to tackle the certification exam while affirming your knowledge and skills in the following topics: • The state of the industry and the fitness professional • Anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology • Fitness programming • Nutrition strategies Note: To be successful in this course, you will need to have completed the first four courses in the Personal Fitness Trainer Professional Certificate.
Aligning Diet and Exercise
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When considering body composition goals, modifications to both diet and exercise are inevitable. Most often, an individual’s dietary interventions do not align with their exercise regimen, which may diminish the potential for success. This course explores the energy pathways and how macronutrients fuel exercise across intensity and duration, in addition to popular dietary interventions and their alignment with exercise recommendations. After completing this course, students will have a clear understanding of the body’s energy pathways, the effects of various dietary interventions on these pathways, as well as aligned diet and exercise recommendations that will help maximize success. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Understanding Food Labels and Portion Sizes
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All of us have struggled to decipher the long list of ingredients and recommendations on our food labels. This course provides a deeper understanding of labeling standards and methods for estimating food portions essential for informed decision-making and healthy eating behaviors. You will learn the foundations of reading food labels (including supplement facts labels) as well as common obstacles faced when portioning food. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Mindful Eating
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Explore mindful eating and how it might impact daily nutrition habits. After reading this guide you'll walk away with at least one or two more tools to develop better habits and intentions around nutrition for both yourself and your clients. The National Academy of Sports Medicine is the leader in educating and credentialing fitness, wellness, and performance professionals across the globe. Join NASM in this comprehensive guide, You'll learn how: • To operationalize mindful eating • Mindful eating plays a big role in weight loss and weight management strategies • The practice of mindful eating can often lead to psychological benefits
Fitness Coaching Strategies for Weight Loss
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This course will provide foundational coaching knowledge and strategies for the fitness professional. The student will understand how to develop safe and effective programming and offer guidance as it relates to weight loss.
Getting Started as a Personal Fitness Trainer
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In this course, you will learn foundational knowledge of the fitness industry and how to begin training clients. It will provide the groundwork and essential skills you will use to progress in your career, as well as gain an understanding of the industry and the role of a personal fitness trainer. You will also learn how to conduct and interpret fitness assessments, which are essential tools for personal trainers to evaluate their clients' fitness levels and design customized training plans. Additionally, you will learn how to apply health screenings and their results in a fitness setting. This knowledge will enable you to identify any potential health risks or limitations that may impact your client’s ability to safely participate in physical activity. By understanding how to apply health screenings and interpret their results, you will be able to design safe and effective fitness programs that meet the unique needs of each client. By the end of the course, you will be able to: • Understand the current state of fitness. • Understand the fitness profession. • Conduct and interpret fitness assessments. • Apply health screenings and their results in a fitness setting.
Pre- and Post-Workout Supplements for the Beginner
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This course has been designed to discuss different ingredients found in pre- and post-workout products and evaluate them for different goals to better help you on your fitness journey. The intention of the development of this information is for educational and informational purposes only and not for diagnosis or treatment of any medical conditions.
Nutrition and Medical Weight Loss
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This course delves into the diverse landscape of medical weight loss, offering an exploration of various approaches and their nutritional implications. You'll gain insights into how different medical weight loss methods work, understand potential challenges, and learn how to adjust your nutrition to support optimal body function during and after these interventions. By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how the body adapts to medical weight loss and be equipped with practical tips and strategies to tailor your nutrition based on the specific type of medical weight loss you choose. Join us to enhance your knowledge and empower yourself with the tools needed to thrive on your weight loss journey.
Making Sense of Supplements
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No matter how hard you try, there is no escaping the endless stream of advertising for all the nutritional supplements out there. From protein and creatine to caffeine and other more-controversial performance aids, there is something tailored to every health, wellness, and fitness goal. This course has been designed to help explore some of the most common trends in the nutritional supplementation landscape and to help separate research-supported hope from marketing hype. You will learn the regulations and guidelines for supplement selections, evidence-based supplements for muscle, supplements that may or may not help with those weight management, in addition to those that have been shown to support athletic performance. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
National Academy of Sports Medicine Nutrition Essentials
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NASM's Nutrition Coaching Essentials enables you to provide evidence-based guidance to those seeking to improve body composition, athletic performance, and health. By successfully completing this program, you will have the knowledge and abilities to leverage nutrition education to increase your client's success, reduce turnover, and maximize adherence. Held to the highest standard of research-based theory and practice, the Nutrition Essentials program teaches you how to provide nutritional direction to a variety of clients with differing goals. Your knowledge and skill base will be updated to remain current and focused on delivering the gold standard of client care in the nonclinical sphere. This course is intended for those who are interested in learning about or teaching others how to apply nutrition priniciples for improved health and wellness.
Plant-Based Diets
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In today's world, there are many eating patterns available to choose from. They can range across a dietary spectrum from a totally carnivorous diet (meat-eating) to an entirely herbivorous diet (plant-eating). Plant-based diets are diets that rely primarily or entirely on plant-based foods. This course has been designed to help those navigate the various available plant-based diet options, their associated health benefits, and the common myths surrounding these dietary lifestyles. With over 30 years as a fitness and wellness education leader, the National Academy of Sports Medicine has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Optimal Nutrition After 40
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Aging is part of the human experience and something that is inevitable for all of us. However, the rate at which we age and how we age can be greatly affected by our lifestyle. In fact, the two greatest factors that are known to have the greatest impact on how long you live and how well you live are what you eat and how physically active you are.
Navigating Diets
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The wide and wonderful world of diets can be difficult terrain to navigate, especially with so much information scattered across the Internet and in magazines. Some are backed by scientific evidence, whereas others are mostly hype. Informed readers need to be well-armed with the latest facts regarding diets and how they impact health, body composition, and athletic performance. This course explores many different types of diets and provides details regarding their various levels of safety and effectiveness, including diets that are comprised of different macronutrient compositions, food choices, and time restrictions (fasting), in addition to the psychology diets have on adherence. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Self-Guided Wellness Coaching
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Unlock your potential with NASM's Self-Guided Wellness Coaching course, designed to empower you to become your own guide in personal growth and transformation. Learn to set meaningful goals, cultivate a growth mindset, and implement effective strategies for positive change. Through practical tools and insights, you'll discover how to overcome obstacles, embrace setbacks as learning opportunities, and achieve a more fulfilling and authentic life. Whether you're new to coaching or seeking to deepen your self-development journey, this course provides the skills and confidence to navigate your path to success.
Nutrition and Weight Management for Fitness Professionals
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In this course, you will learn how to effectively connect and motivate your clients to achieve their nutrition and weight management objectives. As a fitness professional, it is essential to be able to evaluate client nutritional patterns. This involves understanding clients' current eating habits, any dietary restrictions or preferences, and their desired outcomes. It is also important to be able to provide nutritional guidance within an appropriate scope of practice. This involves understanding the limitations of your role as a fitness professional and providing evidence-based and appropriate nutritional guidance to help clients make informed decisions about their food choices. As a fitness professional, it is essential to be able to build rapport with clients. This course will help you learn how to establish a positive and trusting relationship with each client, understanding their needs and providing support and encouragement throughout their fitness journey. Additionally, the course will cover essentials on how to motivate clients to adopt long-term lifestyle changes. This involves providing support, encouragement, and guidance to help clients make sustainable changes to their eating and exercise habits. By motivating clients to adopt long-term lifestyle changes, you can help them achieve their goals and maintain their results over time. By the end of the course, you will be able to: • Evaluate client nutritional patterns. • Provide nutritional guidance within appropriate scope of practice. • Build rapport with clients. • Motivate clients to adopt long-term lifestyle changes.
Psychology of Weight Loss
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The psychological effects of weight loss are as important as the physiological ones. This course will review five key components of the psychology of weight loss: coping, dieting, will power, adherence, and ambivalence. This course is designed to provide an understanding of each of these components and help the fitness professional identify these psychological components in their client’s weight loss behaviors.
Protein Intake for Vegan Diets
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This guide is focused on helping you develop an understanding of how to think about protein intake while following a vegan diet. Vegan diets have been utilized as effective tools to help people manage their weight, reduce overall disease risk, and increase feelings of vitality. The National Academy of Sports Medicine is the leader in educating and credentialing fitness, wellness, and performance professionals across the globe. Join NASM in this comprehensive guide.
Popular Fitness Supplements
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Supplements have been a major part of the health, wellness, fitness, and dieting industries for decades. The growth of consumer goods and social media has driven the supplement industry into a huge market. The National Academy of Sports Medicine is the leader in educating and credentialing fitness, wellness, and performance professionals across the globe. Join NASM in this comprehensive course.
Nutrition Hot Topics and Controversies
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Within the ever-changing nutrition landscape, it becomes difficult to understand current trending topics. Without a doubt, your friends and neighbors will have questions regarding these nutrition hot topics. Most people want to know what to believe or discard from what they hear, but they often lack the tools or the knowledge (or the time) to research topics as they become popular. This course has been designed to take an in-depth approach to explain the science behind many nutrition hot topics and controversies faced by discerning readers today including organic vs. conventionally farmed foods, grass-fed, GMOs, gluten, sweeteners vs. nonnutritive sweeteners in addition to the myths behind detoxes and cleanses. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Psychosocial Aspects of Obesity
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This course talks about the physiological aspects of obesity and provides foundational knowledge on the psychosocial aspects of obesity. This course will discuss three critical domains of the psychosocial components of obesity: mental health, social influences, and eating disorders.
Science of Fat Metabolism
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The term “fat” can be applied to several aspects of health and fitness, from macronutrients in food to tissues in the body, to molecules in the blood. The consumption of fat can be a complex topic due to many different things: fat types, their health effects, the ways fats are metabolized and stored, etc. This course provides a greater understanding of fat-related concepts including the fats consumed in various diets, the physiology of fats within the body, in addition to ways fats are absorbed, stored, and utilized as fuel. With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Understanding Fitness Programming
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In this course, you will learn to identify appropriate exercises to meet each client's specific needs and objectives. This involves understanding a client’s current fitness level, any limitations or health concerns, and their desired outcomes. By selecting the right exercises, you can help clients achieve their goals safely and effectively. It is also important to be able to identify appropriate exercise modifications for specific client requirements. This may involve adjusting the intensity, duration, or type of exercise to accommodate the client's needs. By making these modifications, you can help clients continue to progress toward their goals while minimizing the risk of injury. It is also essential to be able to coach and cue clients through exercises they have never performed before. This involves providing clear and concise instructions, demonstrating proper form and technique, and providing feedback and encouragement to help clients perform the exercises correctly and safely. By the end of the course, you will be able to: • Identify appropriate exercises to meet client needs. • Identify appropriate exercise modifications for specific client requirements. • Build safe and effective exercise programs. • Coach and cue clients through exercises they have never performed before.
Smart Grocery Shopping Choices for Optimal Nutrition
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This course simplifies grocery shopping to support your health and fitness goals. Learn to make intentional, nutrient-dense food choices with confidence. This course includes sample grocery lists, meal planning tips, product evaluation checklists, and instructions on reading nutrition labels. By the end, you'll be equipped to select and compare products effectively. With over 30 years as a fitness and wellness education leader, the National Academy of Sports Medicine has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Nutrition for Optimal Mental Health
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In this course, you'll embark on an enlightening journey to discover how the foods you eat can significantly impact your mental well-being and cognitive performance. With a focus on evidence-based dietary strategies, you'll learn how to fuel your brain for optimal function, enhance your mood, and protect against cognitive decline. From exploring the benefits of the Mediterranean and MIND diets to understanding the role of specific nutrients in mental health, this course offers practical insights and actionable steps to transform your diet and support a healthier, sharper mind. Get ready to unlock the secrets of nutrition and take control of your mental health—one meal at a time! With over 30 years as a leader in fitness and wellness education, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has built its reputation on providing an evidence-based curriculum that is both relevant and applicable for those seeking the skills and knowledge required to promote optimal health.
Impact of Exercise on Weight Loss
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Exercise is most commonly thought of as one of the critical components to weight loss; however, exactly how it affects weight loss is often misunderstood. This course will provide an in-depth review of how exercise affects weight loss from a calorie expenditure perspective, a metabolic perspective, a health perspective, and the effects of exercise on mental health. This course will also review the effects of different forms of exercise on weight loss.