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HFFC-CEP™ Core Compentencies

HFFC-CEP™ Certified Exercise Physiologist Scope of Practice

  • Applied health- and performance-related physical and physiological fitness practices across the life span delivered both fact-to-face and virtually with informed consent for each platform and adherence to privacy laws
  • Cardio-respiratory exercise physiology and the energy systems with emphasis on physical activity/exercise training guidelines and adaptations
  • Evidence-based, evidence- informed versus  non-evidence-based physical activity and exercise practices
  • Personal and group training for health-related physical and physiological fitness for primary and secondary prevention for all ages
  • Personal and group training for performance-related physical and physiological fitness including recreational and elite athletes, industrial athletes (e.g. police, structural fire fighters, wild land firefighters, etc) for all ages
  • Risk stratification for physical activity participation in the general population and low risk pregnancy
  • Issues related to legal liability, scope of practice, professional conduct, medical delegation for blood work use of informed consent, waivers, evidence-based physical activity participation screen tools such as the most current version of the PAR-Q+ and ePARmed-X+ (www.eparmedx.com) and other related evidence-based screening tools
  • Provide exercise clearance for person with 2 stable chronic conditions (eg hypertension plus obesity, obesity and hypertension, obesity and diabetes, etc)
  • Accept referrals aligned with the specific scope of practices of licensed health and allied health professionals
  • Only prescribe low intensity physical activity/exercise for persons with more than 2 stable or unstable chronic conditions until clearance is provided by the appropriate licensed health and/or allied health professional 
  • Aerobic-anaerobic metabolic fitness, aerobic power, work-tolerance, VO2max versus VO2 peak, estimated aerobic fitness
  • Indirect calorimetry
  • Indirect assessment of body composition using skinfolds measurements, girth measurements, bioelectrical resistance devices (eg InBody), BOD Pod, etc
  • Risk stratification for persons with overweight or obesity
  • Anaerobic: fitness, power, capacity
  • Understanding the efficacy of established physical activity/exercise training guidelines and training monitoring techniques
  • How body composition is or is not affected by physical activity/exercise and lifestyle modifications, fat oxidation rates
  • Understanding the efficacy of the different methods used to evaluate body composition
  • Understanding cardiovascular-respiratory dynamics
  • Recognizing the electrocardiogram, leads, the normal EKG, time and speed of the EKG, summary of the EKG intervals, normal EKG variations, the potential presence of EKG abnormalities
  • Assessment of blood pressure at rest, pre-physical activity & exercise participation, during and post- physical activity & exercise participation
  • Musculoskeletal fitness: assessment compliance of muscle(s) in movement execution, biomechanics of resistance training
  • Ergonomics; occupation-specific physical demands analysis, workplace fitness programs, developing job-specific physical fitness protocols for safety related physical demanding occupations
  • Psycho-social aspects of physical activity/exercise and physical activity/exercise management plus design
  • Interacting with other professionals (eg physicians, physiotherapists, kinesiologists, nurse practitioners etc) concerning contraindications to exercise/functional capacity testing and physical activity/exercise participation
  • Safety, injuries and emergency procedures for exercise/functional capacity evaluation and physical activity/exercise participation
  • Assessment considerations plus physical activity/exercise strategies for special populations
  • Effectively use large and small fitness training equipment including treadmills, electrically and mechanically braked cycle ergometers, elliptical devices, arm ergometers, spinning cycles, free weights, weight machines, resistance bands, kettle bells, plyo/medicine balls, resistance bands, stability balls, suspension straps, BOSU, skipping ropes, ladders, cones, steps, recumbent cycling and stepping ergometers, battle ropes, gliding disks, barre, wearable technology for heart rate and breathing rates
  • Physical activity/exercise: demonstration, modification, monitoring with and without equipment (eg body weight exercises/calisthenics)
  • Physiological responses and adaptations of variant physical activity/exercise training tactics plus strategies
  • Efficacy of workplace fitness programs, commercial fitness programs, community-based recreation centres, home based programs plus clinically based programs
  • Developing, monitoring and modifying physical activity/exercise training/functional training/conditioning programs for primary and secondary management
  • Evidence-based recommendations regarding both the benefits and the risks associated with physical activity including exercise participation in select clinical disorders including: cardiovascular disease (excluding stroke), stroke, cancer, arthritis, low back pain, osteoporosis, respiratory disease, cognitive& psychological conditions, metabolic disorders, and spinal cord injury.
  • Physical Activity/Exercise practice guidelines for persons with chronic diseases, functional limitations and disabilities associated with: Musculoskeletal Conditions, Cardiopulmonary Conditions, Metabolic Conditions, Neuromuscular Conditions and Aging Conditions
  • Organization Specific Physical Activity Guidelines: CACPR, Obesity, Diabetes, etc

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