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Duration: 3 hours/session; 2 sessions/week; for 1 month
Number of seats: 25

Professional Personal Trainer Certifications

This course is designed to provide the participant both general and advanced nutritional information. Nutrition will be examined from a health perspective.

Facts and fallacies will be explored. Topics to be covered include Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins, Vitamins and Minerals, Digestion, Dietary Analysis, Nutrition for Health and Chronic Diseases, Caloric Calculation and Weight Loss Fad Diets.

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Macronutrients
Carbohydrates: Glucose, Fructose, Sucrose, Lactose, Starches, and artificial sweeteners…
Fats: Mono & Polyunsaturated fat, Saturated and Hydrogenated oils, Cholesterol, Omega 3…
Proteins, Essential and Non-Essential Amino Acids.
Water.

Vitamins and Minerals
Fat soluble vitamins (Vitamins E, A, D and K).
Water soluble vitamins (Vitamins B and C).
Major Minerals (Calcium, Chloride, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulfur).
Trace Minerals (iodine, iron, zinc, selenium, fluoride, chromium; copper, manganese, molybdenum).
Deficiencies and toxicity.

Digestion and Absorption
The Digestive tract
Digestion and absorption of lipids..
Digestion and absorption of proteins.
Digestion & absorption of Carbohydrates.
The Glycemic Index.

Dietary Analysis
Concepts in dietary analysis.
Macronutrient analysis.
Vitamin and mineral analysis.
Food Labels.
Nutrition in Health and Disease.
Health eating.
Nutrition and heart disease.
Nutrition and cancer.

Weight Loss Fad Diets
Health risks of obesity.
Health risks of weight loss.
Fad diets.
 
Energy Production and Metabolism
Metabolic rate. 
Caloric need calculation.
Factors affecting metabolic rate

Delivery method: online (Zoom) training

Duration: 3 hours/session; 2 sessions/week; for 1.5 months
Number of seats: 25
Teacher: Chady Hatem

This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills needed to develop specific training programs following rehabilitation, or to prevent certain musculo-skeletal injuries. The course focuses on different exercises that could and sometimes must be given for post rehabilitation from surgery or common injuries, providing personal trainers with a new market segment of clients, leading to better income.

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The course main objective is to provide students with the information and techniques needed for the prevention and strengthening of muscles after rehabilitation from an injury or surgery. Specific objectives are:

• Review of anatomical and directional terms
• Joints ROM Upper extremities
• Shoulder joint conditions, assessments and protocols (impingement syndrome, RC tear, and dislocation)
• Shoulder: AC joint separation and frozen shoulder
• Elbow joints and wrist conditions
• Lower extremities conditions
• Hip osteoarthritis and total hip replacement
• Knee joint conditions: ACL rupture, meniscus tear, patella dislocation, patella femoral syndrome, & patellar tendon rupture
• Ankle joint: sprain, strain and fracture protocols
• Screening and rehab practical part
• Low back Anatomy and rehabilitation protocols
• Cervical spine assessments and protocols
• Spine stabilization exercises
• PNF patterns
• Heart anatomy, cardiovascular disease and rehabilitation
• Diabetes and hypertension rehabilitation
• Fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
• Weak and tight muscles theory
• Stabilization exercises (practice)
• Practical Case Study

Prerequisite: “Advanced Weight Training Techniques” or "Personal Trainer Certification". 

Duration: 3 hours/session; 1-2 sessions/week; for 1 month

Number of seats: 25

This course is designed to provide the participant advanced nutritional information to help athletes reach their optimal performance potentials. Facts and fallacies will be explored from a sports point of view. Topics to be covered include Nutrition for endurance athletes, nutrition for strength and power, energy production and metabolism, supplements facts and fads, and many topics related to the different methods of athletic training.

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Nutrition and Performance

Nutrition for endurance athletes
Nutrition for strength and power
CHO Loading
Pre-event Meals
Food for Recovery
Post Event Meals
Caloric Analysis for Athletes and active individuals

Hydration

Water vs Sports Drinks
Drinking before, during, and after exercise for proper hydration

Making Weight

Fast Weight Loss for athletes to make a weight category

Supplements (Facts vs. Fads)

Casein, Soy, & Whey Protein
Amino Acid, BCAA and Glutamine
Fat Burners
Carnitine (L-Carnitine)
Ephedrine
Lactate Buffers
Thermo-Genesis Stimulants
Multi Vitamins and Antioxidants
Endurance Supplements
Alcohol
Nitric Oxide
Caffeine
Ginseng, Green Tea, and Guarana
Omega 3, 6, and 9
Creatine 

Delivery method: online (Zoom) training

Prerequisite: Nutrition for Optimal Health

Duration: 3 hours/session; 2 sessions/week; for 2 months
Number of seats: 25

Teacher: Wael Jaber

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Do you want to assist people (or yourself) overcome bad habits and reach optimal health?
Looking for ways to help clients or yourself increase vitality, productivity and overcome limiting believes?
Did you know that stress can be managed and you can lead a more relaxed life while being more productive?
Do you want to take your communication skills to the next level?
Are you looking for ways to make MORE MONEY, increase CLIENT RETENTION, and get more REFERRALS?
Do you want to upgrade your Health care career to the next level?
Do you love helping people become a better version of themselves?

If you answered “YES” to any of the above, or if you are Personal Trainer, Nutritionist, Physiotherapist, Nurse, or someone who love to help people become a better version of themselves while making more money, increase client retention and get more referrals… this course is for you

Lifestyle Fitness Coach is a Life Coaching certification course with an emphasis on stress management, health care, and wellness.

Participants will gain knowledge in the field of well-being, psychological health, mental training and positive thinking, health and fitness coaching, and best-proven ways to help others reach their optimal human potentials.

We combine the power of coaching skills, grounded in scientifically-based coaching psychology, and techniques to activate the best coaches available to help people improve their health, fitness, and wellness.

Information provided can help overcome some of the toughest challenges many individuals face: overweight or obesity, poor nutrition, mild-depression, sedentary lifestyles, and ever-rising stress levels.

Course content

• What is wellness and lifestyle coaching and how does it work?
• The difference between a consultant, trainer, and a life coach
• What brings clients to coaching?
• Conducting coaching sessions
• Growth-promoting relationship in life coaching
• Empathy and Reflections
• Questions create realities
• Character strength and core values
• Positive psychology and coaching
• Change is possible: readiness to change
• Practical techniques for effective change
• How our brain works
• Behavioral change
• Stress management: scientifically proven methods
• Problem finder versus positivity finder
• The multi-tasking controversy: quantity affects quality
• Proper goals’ setting
• Rituals, self-discipline and will power
• Human thriving, self-care and setting boundaries
• Establishing trust and expressing compassion as a coach
• Building self-confidence and self-efficacy
• The dimensions of wellness
• Motivational Interviewing into life coaching
• Wellness assessment
• The Wheel of Life: creating life balance
• Designing and planning dreams and the wellness vision
• The problem with Identification
• Mindfulness and mental health
• Journaling and gratitude: does it truly work?
• Eliciting motivation
• Exercise adherence
• Transtheoretical model in life coaching
• Checking body feedback
• Realistic optimism, flow state and focus
• Perfectionism versus excellence and integrity
• Measuring results
• Structure of a life coaching session
• Step by step on how to apply the life coaching techniques to elicit lasting change

Delivery method: online (Zoom) training

Duration: 4 Days

Number of seats: 25

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Anatomy
Muscular System
Muscle tissue.
Muscle types.
Muscle fiber microstructure.
Circulatory System

The Heart.
The Blood.
Blood Vessels.

Lymphatic System
Lymph vessels.
Lymph nodes.
Lymph organs.

Nervous System
Brain
Cranial nerves
Brain stem

Sports Recovery Techniques
Benefits.
Contraindications.
Different positions used.
Practical applications.

Relaxant and Post-Exercise Recovery Techniques
Order of positions.
Order of body regions.
Order of subsections.
Practical applications.

Advanced Stretching Techniques
PNF Stretch.
Passive Stretch.
Improve flexibility and joint range of motion.
Relieving muscle cramps.
Practical applications.
Delivery method: Live (Gym) training