Specializations & Continued Education
As a Trainer I feel it’s important for me to keep learning more, so I can continue to better serve my clients. Below I’ve given a brief description of all of my continued education specializations.
Functional Range Conditioning Specialization
Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialization is a comprehensive joint training system based on scientific principals and research. The three main goals of the system are mobility development, joint strength, and body control. Mobility refers to the amount of active, usable motion that one possesses. The more mobile a person is, the more they are able to maximize their movement potential safely, efficiently, and effectively. Focusing on joint strength allows us to ‘bullet proof’ or safe-guard our joints so we can mitigate injury risk. Body Control increases our ability to move freely and easily, reducing pain and injury.
Size Inclusive Training Specialist
Size Inclusive Training Academy brings awareness to weight bias in wellness spaces, and teaches how to operate a more inclusive practice for clients living in bigger bodies. The first course objective is gaining awareness and understanding of challenges and lived experiences of larger-bodied clients and the role that weight bias and stigma play in larger-bodied people’s relationship to exercise. The second objective is physical differences and access, which explains how different bodies move while considering spatial differences, weight loading joints, how variances in body geometry affect movements, balance, exercise form, ability to access certain machines and variances in execution. The final objective of the program is to employ impactful strategies for inclusivity, looking at size-inclusive gym spaces, client intake forms, appropriate language to connect with and provide adequate training for clients with larger bodies.
NASM Corrective Exercise Specialization
NASM Corrective Exercise specialization aims to help trainers improve their understanding of the art and science of human movement to help clients reduce injury risk and maximize performance. NASM CES covers posture, movement and mobility assessments to allow me to identify movement compensations. Once we identify movement compensations we can work to correct muscle imbalances and movement compensations throughout the body. Corrective exercise is useful for people just getting started with their fitness journeys, and also seasoned athletes who may have experienced an injury or have created muscle imbalances through repetitive movement.
NASM Behavioral Change Specialization
NASM Behavioral Change Specialization is like a mini psychology course, focused around positive behavioral change regarding exercise and movement habits. It gave me a suite of behavior-change tools including effective goal setting, mental imagery, behavior therapy techniques, and effective ways to establish new habits.
AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor
AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor taught me to take my one on one training experience and bring that into a group setting, making sure everyone attending the class is having a good experience. Bodies have different capabilities and should group classes should have multiple options for exercises.
