ACE Certified Senior Fitness Specialist Course

Overview

ACE Certified Senior Fitness Specialist Course is designed to give participants the knowledge and understanding necessary to safely and effectively train the active agers, and to understand the role fitness plays in the lives of older individuals. The programme takes a holistic approach to health and fitness, combining rapport-building, behavior change, motivation and adherence with nutrition and training modifications that get older clients more active and moving towards better health. This course also presents the ACE Integrated Fitness Training™ (ACE IFT™) Model as a comprehensive system for designing individualized programs based on each client’s unique health, fitness, and goals.

Course Goals

• Needs and Considerations for the Senior Population
• Communicating with Older Adults
• Behavioral Change Theories and Strategies
• Physiological Changes of Aging
• Chronic Diseases and other Factors affecting Nutrition
• Lifestyle Interventions with Regular Physical Activity
• Pre-exercise Interviewing and Screening
• Health-related Resting Measures
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Assessments
• Functional Assessments for Lower-functioning Older Adults
• Balance, Core and Mobility Assessments for Higher-functioning Older Adults
• ACE Integrated Fitness Training Model with Special Considerations for Older Adults
• Exercise Programming for Older Adults
• Practical Exercise Solutions for Older Adults suffering from Chronic Illness