Benefits of exercising
An overall lowered risk of diabetes for all age ranges, getting at least 150 minutes of exercise per week at moderate intensity to receive these benefits.
Definition of health and fitness professionals
Credentialed individuals that are trained to prevent, identify and treat disorders and diseases
Improving your value as a personal trainer
- consistently improving your education through continuing education
- working on more advanced knowledge and specialization
- pursuing a degree in exercise science or kinesiology
- obtaining additional certifications
- Other areas of knowledge in the allied healthcare realm
Types of motivation for exercising
Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, self efficacy
Ways of keeping client motivation high
Creating a social support system, combating negative or bad social influences, assertiveness, self-regulation, identifying situations that are high risk
Leadership qualities of a trainer
- Professionalism keeping themselves clean meet hygienic nonthreatening prepared and punctual
- Being credible and trustworthy
- Shows the ability to listen
- Shows excitement for their profession
- Continually showing that they care for their clients
- That they take time to see the life experiences of a client through their eyes, being compassionate
Things a trainer can do to improve adherence
- Great program design
- Maintaining clarity on their role
- Setting goals: avoiding negative goals or too many goals. Revisiting goals regularly.
- Organizing agreements or contracts
Client and trainer relationship stages
- The rapport stage
- The investigation stage
- The planning stage
- The action stage
