Fitness Specialist
Certificate of Achievement
Program Details
Upon successful completion of the Fitness Specialist Certificate, the student demonstrates skills, knowledge, and training for entry level or higher positions in the fitness industry. The student will be prepared to take the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Certified Personal Trainer Certification exam. The student demonstrates skills, knowledge, and training for employment as a strength and conditioning coach, exercise specialist for a clinical setting, wellness instructor, and personal fitness trainers; to conduct fitness evaluations for individually designed programs that include nutrition, exercise routines, and motivation approaches; and to transfer to a bachelor’s degree program in physical education, exercise science, or kinesiology.
Fitness Specialist Pathways
Pathways listed below are for the catalog year 2020-2021. Maps for previous years are available on each pathway page. What is a catalog year?
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help you work towards your educational goals.
- Create safe and effective complete exercise training programs for various populations.
- Demonstrate basic physiology and kinesiology and the physical and psychological adaptations of exercise.
- Demonstrate skills needed to measure human performance, risk level, and physical fitness.
- Demonstrate skills needed to motivate, increase adherence, set effective goals, and steps of behavior change.
- Demonstrate skills needed to work successfully as Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Personal Trainers, PE Teachers, Athletic Trainers, Wellness/Health Promotion Coaches, and Clinical Exercise Specialists.
- Understand basic nutritional needs, healthy eating habits, eating disorders, metabolism and weight management, and diet analysis.
- Understand how to decrease risk, evaluate, and treat injuries.