ONLINE STUDY FITNESS RISK MANAGEMENT
Accidents and injuries are always a risk for people during exercise or any other physical activity. This course develops your ability to understand and manage riskof injury as an exercise professional.
Lesson Structure
There are 9 lessons in this course:
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Understanding Human Wellness
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Introduction
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Self esteem
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Motivation for learning
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How to motivate students or clients
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Reinforcement
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Understanding Stress
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Stress and the immune system
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Long term(chronic) problems caused by stress
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Physical fitness (anaerobic and aerobic)
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Safety related issues with exercise : incorrect exercises
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Safety in other aerobic activities
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Identifying hazards
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Safety maintenance in an aerobic exercise area
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Safety audit
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Advising on Human Wellness
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Pre screening adults
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Medical symptoms, signs, health problems to watch for
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Communication with clients
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Client screening questionnaire
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Medical clearance
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Legal liability forfitness instructors
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What is a liability problem
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Contributory negligence
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Insurance
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Fitness Tests
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Risk prevention
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Before any fitness test
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Reasons for fitness testing
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What to test
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What to measure: weight, blood pressure, Body weight and percentage fat
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Heart rate
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Lung capacity
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Cardiovascular score
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Evaluating cardiorespiratory endurance
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Evaluating muscular strength and endurance
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Designing fitness tests
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Recommended procedure for conducting a new fitness test series
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Test conditions
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Combination of tests
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Interpreting Fitness Tests
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Introduction
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Fatigue during fitness testing
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Atmostpheric pressure affects
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Calculations
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Understanding Back Problems
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Back terminology
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Types of spinal injuries
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Muscular injury
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Neurological injuries
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Recognising and Addressing Back Problems
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Reducing risk
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Ergonomics
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Posture
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Standing
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Lying
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Furniture design
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Computer use
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Exercises for the back
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Workplace health and safety issues
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Indicators of back injury
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Preventative Back Care
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PBL Project with the following aims:
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*To identify five common back problems
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*Consider how these problems affect the quality of one’s life.
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*To design exercise guidelines for people already suffering from back problems.
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*To design exercise guidelines to prevent back injury in healthy individuals
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*To design a management plan for an exercise facility
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*To establish a procedure for reviewing and evaluating the program.
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Understanding Weight Control
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Principle of weight control
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Endochrinology
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Nutritional advice
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Energy required for different activities
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The science of nutrition
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Energy production
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Factors affecting BMR
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Working with an obese client
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Working with an underweight client
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Weight Control Methods
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Role of exercise in weight control
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A plan for losing weight
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Water
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Water retention
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Athletes and nutrition
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Weight management PBL Project, with the following aims:
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*To work with a client with a body mass problem
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*To determine the extent of this problem.
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*To plan a body fat reduction and maintenance program combining both exercise and diet.
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*To consider the opposite situation, where a client is underweight
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*To plan a program to remedy this.
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*Design a daily meal plan incorporating all necessary food groups and nutrients.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
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Develop skills which will enable you to advise clients on basic health issues, and promote a common sense approach to fitness and well being.
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Develop a foundation which enables the development of skills to carry out basic tests on clients.
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Be able to recognise back problems and postural defects, and subsequently assist in prescribing safe exercises; adhering to occupational safety measures.
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Develop skills and techniques to assess client needs then assist in prescribing programs to help clients control their body mass.
What You Will Do
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WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
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You will learn a wide variety of things, through a combination of reading, interacting with tutors, undertaking research and practical tasks, and watching videos. Here are just some of the things you will be doing:
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Describe the health status of the population living in your country, using current statistics and information.
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Describe health habits that contribute to well being and longevity.
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Explain the limitations of the person you interviewed and how their exercise routine may be altered/modified.
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Explain the implications of drugs (prescribed and non-prescription drugs) to personal health and wellbeing and fitness.
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Describe the warning signs of heart disease.
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Outline actions for each warning sign to avoid heart problems.
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Design a beginners fitness program for a person predisposed to CHR (Coronary Heart Risk).
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List the medical and alternative medicine practitioners involved in the health field and describe their relationship to health service.
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Explain how you conducted the fitness testing with respect to... -taking pulse at rest and during exercise. -using an HR monitor such as a polar. -using a sphygmomanometer
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Explain the following:
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VO2 max prediction test
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PWC170 test
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aerobic tri-level test
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Describe how the fitness test results you obtained from a set task can be used.
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Set a safe program for a client according to their desired outcome and ability level, using information from the screening and fitness evaluation based on a set task.
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Identify ten (10) different health problems that may restrict exercise performance, excluding back related problems.
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Draw a simple sketch of the spine, identifying structures and segments, including each of the spinal curvatures.
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List any lifestyle factors you can think of that contribute to back pain?
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Explain the purpose of a potentially dangerous or ineffective exercises and demonstrate safer alternatives.
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What illnesses (diseases) can cause back pain?
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What structural problems (ie. physical damage to the body), can cause back pain?
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Identify the major postural and phasis muscles that contribute to maintaining correct body alignment and explain how they function.
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What things might cause injury and burn out to a fitness instructor in their daily work?
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Write down a list of guidelines or rules for fitness instructors to follow to avoid back problems.
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Produce a small booklet that illustrates and explains basic flexibility exercises that could be performed as a prevention exercise to back pain. Also add in a list of do's and don'ts for people to follow.
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Write down what you eat over a 24 hour period, and then:
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Calculate the calories in this diet.
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Determine how well the nutrients are balanced in this diet.
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Write a report on what you believe about genetics and the environment influencing peoples weight gain and loss.
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Write a report about anorexia and bulimia.
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Try to determine the ratio of males and females that suffer from these diseases.
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How are they believed to develop?
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What are present methods of helping sufferers with these problems?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. What will these studies lead to?
A. When you understand a subject, you have an improved capacity to understand, solve problems, communicate, and function at any level within that industry.
People who have studied this subject are better equipped to succeed, and that is an advantage in any situation, either as an employee, or employer in this or related industries.
Q. Can I get a credit toward a Certificate or Diploma if I wish to continue further studies after this?
A. Yes; both with our schools in Australia and the UK and with a number of affiliated colleges across the world
Q. What happens if I have to stop studying for a while? (e.g. Get sick, go on holidays, have a baby).
A. Apply for an extension. It's OK to take a break and start up your study at a later point in time. Just let us know.
Q. What level is this course?
A. We designed this course with adults in mind, and with the flexibility to allow students to work to a level that they are comfortable with. People who have a university level education can approach their work in greater depth, and will have the support of an expert to guide and support them. People who have far less experience and education, may work to a lower academic level, and may take longer to complete studies; but with persistence, they will (with help from tutors) still achieve the minimum goals set for the course. This course should not be seen as rigidly being a degree, diploma or certificate level; rather you should simply see it as an opportunity to extend your skills and knowledge in this discipline, starting wherever you currently are, and finishing with a heightened understanding and capacity to work in this field.
Q. What do I get as a student?
A. First, understand a good course is quite different to a book or a web site
- A course should be something that changes you; making things stick in your mind, improving your capacity to do thing, remember things, solve problems and understand the subject
- A book on this subject is a reference that can be read, but might not be understood as the author intended, and most of which probably will not be remembered unless a lot of time is devoted to studying it.
- A web site is like a book; except there is a stronger likelihood that it could contain biased and even incorrect information.
An ACS course differs to books, seminars, web sites and other sources of "information" in several key ways.
- It is a constructed learning pathway that is designed with the purpose of bringing about a change in the student
- It is constructed by a team of experts, credible in their field, from across the world (it reflects input from many people, from different countries and climates. (A book more commonly reflects only one).
- Every student is guided as an individual through the learning experience. The learning pathway and the precise information encountered is commonly different for every single student.
- You are monitored; motivated and where necessary your path is corrected as you move through the course. A book is a one way communication (a monologue), whereas a course is two way communication.
- A course filters out and organizes information; serving you up a quantity of resources that is "digestible" in a way that is designed to help you digest it.
ACS provides all essential learning resources (eg. notes or books), and all the tutor support that is needed to successfully complete a course. Some students may choose to buy extra books -but this really is not necessary.
Q. Will I have problems with practical tasks, because I cannot travel or attend workshops?
A. Our college has developed lots of ways of providing for practical learning, that can be done by anyone, anywhere and anytime. Students come from over 150 countries, and the practicals have never been a factor that has stopped someone completing their studies in this course.
All courses include set tasks that add a practical element to the learning experience, but we often give options.
Courses are as far as possible written to cope with the widest range of situations, from people living in Antarctica to someone confined to their home due to illness.
Example -We may ask you to visit a workplace and observe something; but also say or if you have restricted mobility make a virtual visit, on the internet, if possible, or if not, by reviewing a place through an article in a magazine. If you can't find reference material, ask us and we will send you what you need.
If the course does not provide an option that is achievable, you contact us, and we will give you other options.
