Business Concepts for Personal Trainers Online CE Course

This package includes the following:

• Best Practices for Small-Group Training video presentation (run time 36:30)
• Essential Skills for Great Leaders video presentation (run time 55:56)
• Getting Greater Program Adherence Through Motivational Interviewing video presentation (run time 55:56)
• Online practice exam
• Online continuing education exam

Consisting of three video presentations, Business Concepts for Personal Trainers Online CE Course helps personal trainers and other fitness professionals further develop their skill set to expand their marketability and grow their clientele.

Best Practices for Small-Group Training will explain how to lead effective small-group trainings, covering how to manage differing levels of progress among your clients, best practices for addressing challenges and conflicts, and what types of workouts work best in the small-group setting. By using Rachel Cosgrove’s best practices, you can expand your personal training offerings with small groups and understand what to do—and what not to do—to get results from each participating client.

Essential Skills for Great Leaders demonstrates how you can go beyond leading from a position of authority and evolve into becoming the kind of leader clients and gym staff alike will want to follow. Trainers and coaches will learn Mark A. Nutting’s 10 essential skills to become exceptional at leading others within the context of personal training environments.

Getting Greater Program Adherence Through Motivational Interviewing introduces the motivational interviewing techniques that can help you take on the role of a facilitator and empower clients to find their own way to change. Whether you are a coach, personal trainer, physical therapist, or medical professional, you realize that change is difficult. When you are tasked with helping clients adopt a new program or change their lifestyle, these techniques will help you inspire your clients to better program adherence, leading to the success and results they’re looking for.

Each video presentation in Business Concepts for Personal Trainers Online CE Course contains slides that make it easy to follow along with the presenter’s discussion. Once you complete the course and pass the exam, you can print a certificate for continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives
After watching the Best Practices for Small-Group Training video presentation, you will be able to do the following:

• Explain the benefits and challenges of small-group personal training.
• Schedule and track the progress of clients in small-group personal training sessions.
• Describe the behaviors of an effective small-group personal training coach.
• Utilize daily readiness and coaching habits checklists.

After watching the Essential Skills for Great Leaders video presentation, you will be able to do the following:

• Discuss what you need to do personally to set the stage for becoming a great leader.
• Describe what to cover in an initial introduction meeting with your new team.
• Determine the needs of your followers, including what will help them get motivated and stay motivated.
• Understand how the simple act of caring for your followers can reap dramatic results for them and your company or organization.
• Explain co-elevation and how it can be an important way to have your followers achieve more beyond your direct input.

After watching the Getting Greater Program Adherence Through Motivational Interviewing video presentation, you will be able to do the following:

• Recognize when a client is using change talk and sustain talk.
• Effectively apply the OARS +I technique when working with clients.
• Recognize the phases of motivational interviewing.
• Employ motivational interviewing techniques to guide the client toward creating their own action plan for change.

Audience

Certified personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and group fitness instructors.

Best Practices for Small-Group Training video presentation
Rachel Cosgrove

Essential Skills for Great Leaders video presentation
Mark Nutting

Getting Greater Program Adherence Through Motivational Interviewing video presentation
Mark Nutting

Rachel Cosgrove, CSCS, is the co-owner of Results Fitness and the author of three books, including Age Strong. She holds the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist credential from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and is certified as a U.S. Olympic weightlifting coach and a U.S. triathlon coach. She taught the first USA Obstacle Course Racing Level 1 certification at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in 2019. She is certified by the International Society of Sports Nutrition and is certified as a Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach by the prestigious CHEK institute and Precision Nutrition. She also holds the Russian Kettlebell certification, Ultimate Sandbag certification, and Functional Movement Screen certification.

Mark A. Nutting, ACSM CEP, ACSM HFD, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, brings the expertise of over 43 years of personal training and health club management to his work. He is the author of The Business of Personal Training. A longtime national presenter, his 'Fitness Boot Camps for the Masses' has been a featured presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Summit, the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Personal Trainers Conference, and the 2017 NSCA Japan Conference.

A highly skilled group fitness instructor, Nutting is also an award-winning personal trainer: He won the Personal Fitness Professional’s Trainer of the Year Legacy Award in 2016 and was named the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Personal Trainer of the Year in 2009.