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The NASM Weight Loss Specialist discusses the health dangers of obesity, the physiology and psychology of weight loss, and nutrition and physical activity guidelines specific for weight loss clients; from overweight to morbidly obese clients. This course also goes into detail on how to use NASM’s exclusive Optimum Performance Training™ (OPT™) model to design exercise programs specific for weight-loss clients.
Upon completion of this course, Health and Fitness Professionals will be able to:
Identify the inseparable connection between nutrition and exercise for fitness and weight control goals, but most importantly, recognize how fitness professional should be the one to integrate a viable nutrition component to enhance their client’s desired fitness outcomes while remaining within their scope of practice. Clients who require medical nutrition therapy are referred to a staff and/or local registered dietitian nutritionist.
Become dotFIT Worldwide affiliates with exclusive ongoing access to nutrition and exercise resources including coaches, registered dietitians and sports nutrition experts; lifelong discounts on evidence-based and third party tested nutritional products; personal business, career and financial growth opportunities, and domestic and international job opportunities throughout the sport and fitness industry.
Identify the current regulatory framework of dietary supplements in the United States and the risks of mass market supplements. Identify evidence-based dietary supplement ingredients and the components of a practitioner product.
Recognize the key health role they can play in society by including a simple, authentic nutrition component in client programming and embrace the responsibility to do so, making them a more sought after SFP than their exercise instructor peers.
Human beings are capable of incredible transformations. We can learn, grow and alter the trajectory of our lives. We can become stronger and improve our health—but it doesn’t come easy. With the right coaching approach and strategy, positive habits can be built to make a lifelong impact on health and wellbeing. As an ACE Behavior Change Specialist, you will help your clients discover their own paths to a healthy, happy lifestyle.
The ACE Behavior Change Specialist Program will teach you the key tools to promoting behavior change and creating a foundation for a healthy lifestyle. You will learn how to help clients of all backgrounds recognize counterproductive behaviors and coach them to discover new methods to move more, eat better and make healthier decisions for themselves and their families.
Some employers prefer their trainers to be NASM-certified, while others may prefer a different organization – so make sure to keep this in mind when researching gyms or facilities you’d like to work at prior to becoming certified.
Being NASM-certified grants you access to the aforementioned OPT system – the organization’s own set of cutting edge personal training principles/methods based on the latest evidence-based, clinical research in exercise science and sports medicine. They also offer exclusive business opportunities to their certificate holders and access to their research institute’s cutting-edge sports science knowledge database.
To read up on all the in’s and out’s of this 120-question multiple choice exam, make sure to check out the official NASM Certification Candidate Handbook (PDF).