Nutrition and Weight Management for Fitness Professionals
Learn to evaluate client nutritional patterns, provide evidence-based guidance within your scope of practice, and motivate clients toward sustainable weight management through nutrition science, digestion and metabolism, dietary patterns, and behavior change strategies.
What you'll learn
- Connect and motivate clients to achieve nutrition and weight management objectives
- Evaluate client nutritional patterns and current eating habits
- Provide nutritional guidance within an appropriate fitness professional scope of practice
- Build rapport and support long-term lifestyle and behavior change for clients
Skills you'll gain
- Describe principles of energy balance and the first law of thermodynamics and apply them to weight management
- Evaluate the role of macro- and micronutrients in body composition, health, energy levels, and metabolism
- Analyze genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors contributing to weight gain and loss
- Evaluate client nutritional patterns and current eating behaviors
- Provide nutritional guidance within an appropriate fitness professional scope of practice
- Build rapport with clients and support them through their fitness journey
- Motivate clients to adopt and maintain long-term lifestyle and behavior changes
Prerequisites
- • Courses 1, 2, and 3 in the NASM Personal Fitness Trainer specialization (recommended)
Who this course is for
- → Aspiring fitness professionals
- → Current personal trainers seeking nutrition and weight management skills
Provider
Coursera
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