Level 2 Award in Coaching Functional Fitness (Practical)
The Level 2 Award in Coaching Functional Fitness is an accredited course that provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to become a certified Functional Fitness Coach. The course is designed to teach you how to create personalized workout plans that incorporate various functional exercises to help your clients improve their overall strength, endurance, agility, and mobility.
Description
Functional Fitness is a type of training that focuses on movements that mimic real-life activities, such as squatting, lifting, pushing, pulling, and twisting. These exercises help improve functional movements, reduce the risk of injury, and increase strength, stability, and core balance.
Who is this course for?
This course is an entry-level certification that enables you to add Functional Fitness to your coaching credentials. Whether you are already working as a trainer or instructor, or new to coaching, this coaching course is a great addition to your CV.
What does the course cover?
The Level 2 Award in Coaching Functional Fitness covers effective coaching techniques and how to work with a range of different clients to develop functional fitness training sessions through learning about a system of training that encourages individuals to develop physical fitness components e.g., strength and cardiorespiratory fitness.
The course will cover safe coaching practices, how to design and plan functional fitness focused training sessions, a detailed profile of key training exercises and an understanding of programming, anatomy and nutrition for developing replication of day-to-day demand of an individual’s lifestyle in some way (functional movements). For example, hinging and squatting movements that are performed in the gym provide individuals with the fitness required to pick up and lift objects safely from the floor.
The modules covered on the course are:
o The Functional Fitness Coach
o Underpinning coaching theory
o Safety in a Functional Fitness setting
o Athlete assessment
o Functional Fitness exercises
o Weightlifting for Functional Fitness
o Programming for Functional Fitness
o Applied coaching
o Holistic development of the athlete
o Functional Fitness coach case study
What does this course qualify me to do?
With this certification, you will be able to demonstrate to your clients that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to help them improve their functional fitness regardless of their experience in the gym.
How long does it take to complete this course?
The length of this course is 12 - 16 hours, plus 8 hour practical day