Beauty and the Beast
(Considerations for Exercise Demonstration and Prescription)

By: Professor Gregory J. Keyes, PhD. CMC
$54.95
without CE $37.50

Successful completion of the quiz is necessary to receive Continuing Education Credit.

Approved for:
4.0 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
4.0 Aquatic Exercise Association (AEA)
0.3 Aquatic Therapy and Rehab Institution (ATRI)
1.5 National Council on Strength & Fitness (NCSF)
0.5 National Federation of Professional Trainers (NFPT)
4.0 National Strength Professionals Association (NSPA)
0.3 Council on Prof. Stand. Kinesiotherapy (COPS-KT)
4.0 YMCA
4.0 World Instructor Training Schools (W.I.T.S.)
4.0 International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA)

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Education Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Prerequisites: None
Target Audience: Aquatic Fitness Profesional, Group fitness, Personal Training, Coach.

Course Description:

Exercise demonstration and prescription is a topic that every health-fitness professional needs to constantly consider and can often be neglected due to experience and complacency. This could result in inadvertent poor example/demonstration techniques, and less than optimal planned prescription. These morsels of tips, hints and in some cases in your face frank observations for group, small group, and personal training applications are shared to ensure your professionalism remains top of your game and keeps your clients coming back for more.


Course Objectives:
After completing this course you will:

  • Learn the 5 P's for Principles of Exercise Design.
  • Identify through review basic kinesiology principles including joint structure and skeletal movements,
  • Learn through review exercise terminology including agonist/antagonist, assistor/stabilizer, and isotonic/isometric.
  • Understand through review several exercise concepts including muscle balance, posture and body alignment, pace of exercise execution, variation of exercise, and the F.I.T.T. principle.
  • Learn analysis and recognition in exercise with concepts and knowledge built through three acronyms:

    1. BIOMECHANICS
    2. DEMONSTRATION
    3. BEAUTY and the BEAST
    ISBN# 978-1-935746-33-1

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