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Advanced Weight Management Instructor Certification



Advanced Weight Management Instructor Certification

Create higher value with your clients and promote greater health by educating them on nutrition as well as the proper need and use of vitamins and supplementation. These are services your client needs, services you can provide and services you can profit from by providing to your clientele.

These revolutionary software products will enable you to offer integrated weight management and personal training services to your customers easily and effectively through face to face consulting or by way of the Internet for a global reach. This program is an irreplaceable tool that can provide your clientele with sound nutritional advice to help weight control issues. If executed properly, Trainers Edge products can help foster long-term weight control and management success which, on a base level, is why an increasing number of clients will sign up for this type of service.

Experienced Personal Trainers already know nutrition is 80% of the battle. 99.9% of your clients have, as their #1 goal, to lose weight (fat). The IFPA Advanced Weight Management Instructor Certification, featuring the Trainers Edge software package, will teach you how to program eating and exercise habits into a personalized plan that will meet specific needs for specific successes. This course provides all the tools you need to set up healthy, nutritious, "get the job done" eating plans. Your clients make better, faster progress and you make more money consulting them to maximize their success.

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Distance Learning (24 hrs CEU) $499

Course Learning Objectives
  1. Learn to improve your clients’ health and quality of their lives through balanced eating.
  2. Understand the plans provided to teach your clients how to improve their eating habits in ways that fit their lifestyle.
  3. Learn the proactive, research-based strategy in the course that addresses the root causes of unhealthy eating.
  4. Develop the proficiency to give your clients its tools to succeed at better, healthier eating.
  5. Learn how to choose the right balance of the right foods for optimal health set realistic goals and rewards and cope with the “triggers for unhealthy eating”.
Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Learn weight management principles and the essential “Body Composition” vs the obsessive “Weight Loss” goals.
  2. Learn to help your clients keep healthy eating in mind even while shopping.
  3. Learn how to teach your clients to eat well- even when dining out or away from home.
  4. Learn how to help your clients make sense of nutrition information and diet product claims.
  5. Develop proficiently at using the checklists charts and other feature provided in the course that will help you personalize your clients.
  6. Be able to educate your clients that fad diets offer only shorten results that often do more harm than good.
Course Goals
  1. Learn to help your clients’ by educating them on the importance of dietary balance, serving sizes and identifying personal improvements in food groups.
  2. Learn to help your clients’ assess the health of their diet, understand the 5 HEED goals and determine their readiness to change their eating habits.
  3. Learn to help your clients’ set goals and how to reward themselves: the 4 characteristics of effective goals, setting effective, long-term and short-term goals and rewards and learning the important skill of self-motivating.
  4. Learn how to help your clients identify barriers and benefits: identify benefits of healthy eating identifying barriers to healthy eating, identifying barriers to healthy eating, problem solving to overcome barriers and increasing opportunities for healthy eating.
  5. Learn to help your clients, “Tackle Triggers”: defining hunger, identifying and dealing with eating triggers and understanding nutrient density.
  6. Learn to teach your clients’ the difference between necessity eating out and special occasion eating out, learning the skill or defensive dining when eating out and developing strategies for eating on the run.
  7. Learn to teach your clients the interaction between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, identifying and overcoming dangerous dialogues and modifying your negative self-talk with positive thoughts.
  8. Learn to teach your clients how to overcome obstacles to shopping for healthy foods, identifying the best options in each supermarket department, and using food labels to access food choices.
  9. Learn to help you clients’ identify the type of social support they will need, enlisting sources of support and encouraging people who are supportive.
  10. Learn how to teach your clients about the benefit of whole foods, evaluating your progress to date, and setting new goals.
  11. Learn how to prevent lapses, relapses and collapses, and coping with lapses when they occur.
  12. Learn how to help your clients’ understand the role of cooking and healthy eating, learning how to modify recipes, and finding ways to make healthy eating quick and easy.
  13. Learn how to educate your clients on Dietary Supplements and fad diets. Help them decipher the truth and evaluate nutrition information.
  14. Learn how to educate your clients how to balance calories with physical activity, dispelling myths about physical activity and planning ways to become more physically active.
  15. Learn how to teach your clients’ to understand the Body Mass Index (BMI) and what it means for their health, energy balance, weight management and reassessing their HEED goals.
  16. Learn how to teach your clients’ how to manage their time and stress, help them identify their personal values, learn to act on their priorities and understand how stress affects eating.
  17. Learn how to keep your clients motivated by celebrating successes, exploring new possibilities and beating boredom.
  18. Learn about one topic food environment, learn about vegetarianism and other alternative eating patterns, keeping food safe to eat and looking ahead to new technologies.
  19. Learn to carefully plan your weight management program especially for troublesome times.
  20. Learn to assess diets, health, goal setting, rewards and celebrating!

The IFPA Weight Management Instructor Certification along with Trainers Edge Software will help you transition easily in the weight management consulting business. These services can be a new and lucrative revenue stream for you and your business.

  • Synopsis: 
    This course provides all the tools you need to set up healthy, nutritious, “get the job done” eating plans. Your clients make better, faster progress and you make more money consulting them to maximize their success.

  • Includes: 
    • The Trainers Edge* software
    • The Trainers Edge manual
    • In place of an exam, you will be required to generate and submit a variety of reports using the software to demonstrate your knowledge

           *Can be customized for an additional $199.00

  • Prerequisite: 
    IFPA Sports Nutrition Specialist Certification.

  • Discount: 
    Purchase 2 or more certifications at the same time and receive a $100 discount off each additional certification program. Cannot be combined with other discounts.

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