Functional Specialist Internship
Course Overview
This course requires an Accredited certification to register.
This program is a combination of our continuing education courses, shadowing master trainers and training test clients. This requires 30 hours of live hands-on course work and approximately 35 hours of homework. Students must complete all online home work before attending any live classes. For students who may have taken any part of the course in the past you will be credited for that course and discounted whatever fees you paid for it.
Classes are small and kept to less than 6 trainers at a time to insure each student really understands the information.
Course Objectives
This course will give students information they can use right away. Trainers will learn how to better understand their clients’ needs. Completion of this course will bring you to the next level of personal training.
This course will cover:
- The Science behind functional exercise
- Principles of movement
- Basic nerve and motor function
- Energy systems
- Flexibility
- Core training
- Application of foam rollers
- Program design
- Training around common injuries
- Evaluation techniques
- Exercise prescription
- Common exercise mistakes
- Shadowing a master trainer
- You actually train test clients
- Selling techniques
Lesson Plan
Students will complete all online course work before attending any classes. Once all online courses have been completed the student will sign up for their internship. Students will be required to take a series of seminars. Once these courses are complete the student will be allowed to shadow a master trainer by making appointments. Once all required shadow hours are complete the student will schedule their practical exam. The practical will be 2 client scenarios that a trainer must design programs in a Q and A forum with required demonstrations.
Approximate hours
| Online Homework | 40 Hours |
| Seminars | 35 Hours |
| Shadow a Master Trainer | 10 Hours |
| Train test clients | 12 Hours |
| Final Exam | 3 Hours live |
Course Value/Time
Principles of Functional Exercise CEC | ACE 1.9/NASM | 25 hrs online homework |
| Program design based on shadow time | 15 hrs homework |
Live portion
| Review of all exercises in manual | 12 hrs | |
| Flexibility Specialist | NASM .5 | ACE .3 | 5 hrs |
| Functional Movement Evaluation | NASM .8 | ACE .7 | 7 hrs |
| Health Screening | 3 hrs | |
| Intro to Plyometrics | 5 hrs | |
| Assessment Selling Techniques | 3 hrs | |
| Total | 35 hrs live |