Cutting edge digital learning
Learn at your own pace on an advanced digital learning platform with access to supporting videos, practice quizzes, and online manual and resources. Registration in the course also gives you access to qualified experts, so you can ask questions when you need to.Once completed, you are prepared for Fitness Alberta Personal Fitness Trainer certification.
What to expect
The time to complete the course varies from student to student, but you have up to one year to complete the course and pass your theory and practical exams for certification.
This is a post-secondary level course, that covers:
- Musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology
- Human physiology (cardio-respiratory, muscle and metabolic)
- Pre-exercise screening and resting health assessments
- Resistance training principles and exercise techniques
- Cardiovascular training concepts and exercise techniques
- Flexibility training concepts and exercise techniques (dynamic, static, PNF, SMR)
- Planning fitness training programs
- Communication, consultation and motivation techniques
Once you have completed the course, you are eligible to write the CPFT theory and practical exams for certification.
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CPFT course fees: $1,099
Your online personal training course fees include:
- Advanced Concepts of Personal Training digital textbook
- Digital platform access, online manual and video lectures
- Practice quizzes and exam
- Canadian CPFT Resource manual
- Access to qualified content experts for support and questions
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Skills development workshop
We highly recommend you take the skills development virtual workshop once you have completed the course. This will help you to retain and apply the knowledge you've just learned. We also find that people who take the skills development option do better on their exams.