Penn Foster’s Fitness and Nutrition Certificate Program curriculum covers foundational concepts to prepare your workers for fitness, nutrition, and wellness roles within your organization. Topics include fundamentals like medical terminology to fitness testing and evaluation.
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The estimated completion times are based on completion times for consumer learners enrolled in this program from May 2021 - April 2022, excluding withdrawals. Enterprise Solution rates may be higher but are highly dependent upon implementation choices.
Lesson 1: Starting Your Program
Starting Your Program is designed to help your learners become successful Penn Foster students, including learning how to use all available tools and resources.
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
Lesson 2: Introduction to Managing Personal Health
Feel good, both physically and mentally, by managing personal health.
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Lesson 1: Medical Terminology
Your learners need strong medical vocabulary skills to succeed in their career.
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Lesson 2: Exercise Science Terminology
To conduct exercise classes, plan fitness programs, and become an effective personal trainer, your learners will need to be comfortable using the language of the fitness industry.
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
Lesson 3: Fitness Anatomy and Physiology 1
This lesson is the first part of Fitness Anatomy and Physiology.
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Lesson 4: Fitness Anatomy and Physiology 2
This lesson is the second part of Fitness Anatomy and Physiology.
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Lesson 1: Nutrition Basics
Some nutritional needs are the same over a lifespan, others vary over time.
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Lesson 2: Developing Healthy Eating Habits
Fitness professionals are expected to know enough about nutrition to recommend healthy recipes and menus.
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Lesson 3: Posture, Balance, and Proper Alignment
Physiology—how systems function and act—and kinesiology—how mechanics and anatomy relate to movement—will be presented, providing your learners with fuller insight into motion and movement.
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Lesson 4: Therapeutic Communication Skills
Proper posture and balance are important to physical health.
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Lesson 1: Understanding the Heart and Lungs
Cardiorespiratory fitness can be measured by assessing the heart’s ability to pump oxygen-rich blood throughout the body to the working muscles during exercise, as well as by the efficiency with which the muscles use oxygen to produce energy.
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Lesson 2: Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Cardiorespiratory fitness is the ability to maintain high-endurance aerobic exercises, such as cycling, swimming, and running, for a prolonged period of time, without the early onset of performance-inhibiting fatigue.
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Lesson 3: Principles of Muscular Strength and Endurance
Strength training, also called weight training and resistance training, is an important tool for achieving a complete healthy body. Strength training isn’t just for athletes; anyone who wants to build or tone muscle can use strength training to achieve a fitter body.
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Lesson 4: Strengthening the Core
Strengthening the core can generate tremendous benefits and is the one area of the body that will always give a great return on fitness investment.
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Lesson 1: Strengthening the Upper Body
Often, the upper body is the first part of the body to show wear and tear from the stresses and strains of daily life. As posture deteriorates, the heart and lungs become physically strained.
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Lesson 2: Strengthening the Lower Body
A powerful lower body is essential to a strong and balanced physical foundation.
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Lesson 3: Flexibility Training
Everyone needs some flexibility to function in everyday life.
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Lesson 4: Preventing Injury
Participation in any fitness activity presents some risk of injury. Fitness professionals should do everything possible to ensure that their clients are exercising safely.
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Lesson 5: Stress Management Techniques
This lesson teaches you how to apply stress-reducing techniques to tense situation.
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Lesson 1: Personal Fitness Programs
Exercise, healthy eating, and stress reduction must be practiced over a lifetime to maintain fitness.
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Lesson 2: Fitness Programs for the General Population
Combine your learners' knowledge of fitness, exercise, stress reduction, and good nutrition.
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Lesson 3: Health Screening, Testing, and Evaluation
Fitness professionals know how to design exercise routines so their clients not only look and feel better but actually achieve better overall health through improved mental and physical function.
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Lesson 4: Preparing for Special Situations
Everyone who can exercise should exercise.
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Lesson 1: Leadership Skills
Your learners now know the nuts and bolts of designing fitness programs and interacting with their clients and students. This course is designed to help them become a fitness leader.
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Lesson 2: Legal and Ethical Issues
A number of legal and ethical issues apply to sports and the fitness industry.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
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