CEUs-NASM: 0.3; AFAA: 3.0; ISSA: 3.0; NCCPT: 0.3; ACSM: 3.5

As Fitness Professionals, we do our best to ensure that our clients are safe and healthy. However, inevitably a client will get injured, whether in training or just by simply living their lives. The question is, how do you facilitate injuries without losing valuable training time? In this course, we will address the basic patterns of fitness training injuries. This is not physical therapy, which is outside the scope of the majority of Personal Trainers. We will discuss the appropriate modifications in terms of cardiovascular conditioning, strength training, and balance and flexibility exercises. These will help you to continue training your clients through injury so as to achieve more optimal recovery. The information in this course will work great for offering a fitness supplement to a physical therapy prescription and to provide a tertiary level of care for the afflicted individual. Dr. Irv Rubenstein is our guest instructor for this course, with a PhD in exercise physiology and decades of experience, Irv is an expert in functional training.

Founder and President, STEPS Fitness, Inc. Dr. Irv Rubenstein

Irv Rubenstein, Ph.D. in exercise physiology (Peabody-Vanderbilt, 1988) and certified personal trainer, is the founder and president of STEPS Fitness (since 1989), Nashville’s first personal training center.  Dr. Irv is often cited in print and on-line publications as a reliable resource for scientific explanations of fitness myths, functional training, and proper exercise technique. He has contributed to books and written articles  about personal training and edited the Visual Health Information five-book series, “Exercise Ideas”.  Dr. Irv served on the NSCA committee to develop the Certified Special Populations Specialist certification for trainers working with special populations. He had provided continuing education for fitness professionals with Exercise ETC for over 18 years, was a founding member of the Eating Disorders Coalition of TN (now known as Renewed) and presented at major conferences on exercise and anorexia, arthritis and exercise, and the scientific challenges of weight loss. You can follow his wellness and fitness ramblings at: www.stepsfitness.com.

Co-Founder and CEO FitFixNow Jane Curth

Professor Curth has taught college for over 20 years, has presented at 18 local and national conferences and is an ACE certified trainer with many senior clients, including coaches of corporate executives.

Course curriculum

    1. Basic Course Information

    1. Welcome

    1. Introduction

    1. Common Toe, Foot, Ankle and Lower Leg Injuries

    1. Common Knee Injuries

    1. Common Hip, Torso and Spinal Injuries

About this course

  • $30.00
  • 13 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content