Ξεκινήστε το ταξίδι σας μαθαίνοντας:

– Πώς να σχεδιάσετε, να χορογραφήσετε και να διδάξετε ένα ομαδικό
μάθημα γυμναστικής.
– Προπόνηση με διαφορετικούς τρόπους, συμπεριλαμβανομένων:
strength and resistance, HIIT and interval, boot camp, yoga, cycling, και πολλά άλλα.
– Βασικές αρχές διατροφής και διαχείρισης βάρους.
– Πώς να προσαρμοστείτε σε ειδικούς πληθυσμούς, όπως εγκύους και ηλικιωμένους συμμετέχοντες.
– Επιχειρηματικές δεξιότητες και επαγγελματική ευθύνη.

Ύλη Προγράμματος

​✓ Section 1: Professionalism
​Chapter 1: Welcome to Group Fitness
Learn about the state of health and fitness today Explore your what and why as you learn about common characteristics of Group Fitness Instructors. This chapter provides foundational benefits of group fitness classes across all formats and introduces you to the instructor mindset.
​Chapter 2: Professional Expectations of a GFI
Helping others reach their fitness goals requires the knowledge to analyze the basics of human movement thoroughly. Biomechanics and the interactions of the muscle action spectrum provide you with the language of exercise science and a foundational understanding of the human body.
​Chapter 3: Career Development
Identify various possibilities of employment and how developing a personal brand supports your journey as a Group Fitness Instructor. It will also provide career development opportunities and self-care tactics to help keep you a top instructor.
​Chapter 4: Legal and Ethical Responsibilities
Identify your scope of practice as a Group Fitness Instructor and keep you within your legal and ethical boundaries as a fitness professional, in-person and virtually. It will provide information about safety responsibilities, emergency protocols, insurance considerations, and music licensing.
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​✓ Section 2: Fundamentals of Exercise Science
​​Chapter 5: Human Movement Science and Exercise
Review the benefits of exercise and connect them to applied human movement and exercise science. This chapter will go over the major systems of the body, planes of motion, and other exercise science topics as they relate to movement and bioenergetics.
​Chapter 6: Training Science
Provide basic training principles and their relation to participant outcomes. This chapter will also go over acute variables, integrated fitness, and how to accommodate all participant levels through modification.
​Chapter 7: A Supportive Approach to Group Fitness
The intent of this chapter is to make group fitness applicable and safe to all participants through inclusivity of individual considerations and adjusting external environmental variables.
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✓ ​Section 3: Class design and planning
​Chapter 8: Defining Your Class
Connect the vision of your class to its desired objectives and explore how vision and objectives help you select other class considerations to ensure your class meets the needs of your participants.
​Chapter 9: Building the Body of Your Workout
Discuss the selection of the intensity, exercises, arrangements, and modifications in alignment with your class vision to meet the needs of your participants.
​Chapter 10: Other Vital Components of Your Workout
Show how to use the body of your workout to select other components of your workout in alignment with your class vision and objectives, as well as to support the expectations and success of your participants.
​Chapter 11: Music
Show the connection between music and movement as well as explain components of music and how they can be used to align with your class vision and objectives and meet the needs of your participants. This module will also provide an overview of different sources of music and the legalities connected to each source.
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​✓ Section 4: Class instruction and Presentation
Chapter 12: Communication
Discuss the different types of communication, their value to participants, and how you can use inclusive communication to engage, motivate, and build trust with your participants.
​Chapter 13: The Art of Cueing
Identify various cueing techniques, establish their purpose in group fitness, and explain how to effectively deliver them. This chapter will also review proper exercise technique, safe body mechanics, and how to build your own cues.
​Chapter 14: Monitoring Participants and Adapting to Class Dynamics
Review monitoring techniques for your participants’ exercise technique, form, and intensity as well as how to appropriately modify to ensure the success of your participants. This module will also explore unexpected events in the group room and how to best resolve them.
​Chapter 15: Instructing Virtually
Explore instructing virtually, the relevance of virtual instruction to instructors and participants, and how to create an engaging virtual workout. This chapter will also review legal, ethical, and safety considerations when designing and offering virtual workouts.
​Chapter 16: Your Journey as a Group Fitness Instructor
Review your next steps as you prepare for your final exam and explore employment opportunities as a Group Fitness Instructor.

Περιλαμβάνονται:

– Βίντεο με διαλέξεις και τεχνικές
– Βιβλίο σε ηλεκτρονική μορφή
– Οδηγός μελέτης
– Τεστ προσομοίωσης
– Εξετάσεις
– ΔΩΡΕΑΝ συνδρομή στο περιοδικό Fitness American*

ℹ︎ Η πιστοποίηση  Group Fitness Instructor AFAA-CGFI είναι διαπιστευμένη από το National Commission for Certifying Agencies.

Εξετάσεις:
Μετά την ολοκλήρωση της εκπαίδευσης, θα πρέπει να ολοκληρώσετε διαδικτυακά τις τελικές σας εξετάσεις από την άνεση του σπιτιού σας. Οι εξετάσεις αποτελούνται από 100 θεωρητικές ερωτήσεις, πολλαπλής επιλογής. Η διάρκεια των εξετάσεων είναι μέγιστο 180 λεπτά και το ποσοστό επιτυχίας για να περάσετε είναι 70%. Έχετε 3 προσπάθειες στην διάθεσή σας. Πρέπει να ολοκληρώσετε τις εξετάσεις σας εντός 180 ημερών (6 μηνών) από την ημερομηνία έναρξης του προγράμματος.

ℹ︎ ​Πριν από τις εξετάσεις σας θα χρειαστεί να αποκτήσετε πιστοποίηση Καρδιοπνευμονικής Αναζωογόνησης (CPR) και Αυτόματου Εξωτερικού Απινιδωτή (AED).