Fitness Technician

The Fitness Technician Program is designed to train students to meet the growing demand in the fitness profession for personal trainers.

Core courses include:

• Kinesiology
• Exercise physiology
• Nutrition
• Behavior modification
• Fitness assessment
• Program design
• Principles of weight training
• Flexibility
• Cardio fitness

An internship of 120 hours is required to complete the degree.

Students of the Fitness Technician Program who choose to pursue national certifications must independently pay for, and successfully sit for, those exams. During the HLTH 2430 (Designing Training Programs) course, students have the opportunity to take the ACSM as their mid-term. Students will demonstrate a high degree of readiness to pass an exam with the following national certifying organizations including (but not limited to):

• American College of Sports Medicine-Certified Personal Trainers (ACSM-CPT)
• National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)
• American Council on Exercise Group Fitness Instructor (ACE)

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