HFFC-CPT™ SCOPE OF PRACTICE
Understand the scientific basis of:
- Health benefits of acute and chronic physical activity and exercise participation using in person plus virtual personal training approaches with informed consent and adherence to privacy laws
- Dose-response relationship for health benefits and volume of physical activity
- Implications of recent research on existing health-related fitness guidelines & practices
- Physical activity habits and attitudes -
- Factors affecting participation in physical activity
- Understanding behavior changes stages and processes of changing behaviors
- The process of lifestyle and physical activity counseling related exercise physiology, anatomy and analysis of movement patterns
- maximizing physical activity participation
- Healthy lifestyle practices and their impact on health-related fitness
- Acute versus chronic responses to physical activity participation
- Current version (updated annually) of evidence-based physical activity participation screen tools such as the PAR-Q+ and ePARmed-X+ (www.eparmedx.com) and other related evidence-based screening tools
- Pre- physical activity and exercise blood pressure and heart rate
- Risk Stratification: Low, Intermediate & High
- Safety considerations; contraindications; emergency procedures; resuscitation
Conducting the health-related fitness and evaluations:
- Non-exercise and exercise protocols; sequence; limitations
- NIH Waist Circumference, skinfolds, percent body fat using Bioelectrical Impedance devices (eg InBody), aerobic fitness: submaximal single stage test (eg Ebbeling), submaximal multi-stage test (eg YMCA, step tests, etc) submaximal field test (eg Rockport), vigorous to maximal field test (eg Leger 20 m Shuttle Run), hand grip, push-ups, curl-ups, fore arm prone plank trunk flexion, vertical jump, back extension
- Pre, during and post exercise heart rate and blood pressure measurements long with ratings of perceived exertion
- Calibration and maintenance of equipment
Interpretation of health-related fitness appraisal outcomes:
- Standardized comparisons
- Availability and use of norms
- The efficacy of the composite scoring approach
- The physical fitness profile: identifying strengths & weaknesses
- Efficacy of non-normative approaches including test retest comparisons
GENERATE AND EVALUATE ALTERNATIVES, DEVELOP AN ACTION PLAN, FOLLOW-UP
- Communication techniques; pros and cons of various approaches
- Guidelines for self-administered physical activity/exercise programs
- Matching preferences and appraisal results
- General considerations/contraindications
- Training the motor fitness factors
- Healthy body composition management
- Healthy aerobic fitness
- Healthy musculoskeletal and back fitness
PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINING
Counseling
- Stages of readiness for behavioral change
- Motivational techniques for client adherence
- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- Atrategies for overcoming barriers to compliance
- SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) goal setting
- Understanding the fitness components and interpreting the client’s results in terms of their knowledge, fitness comprehension and lifestyle
Exercise Prescription and Program Design
- Build on the client data (age, stage of growth, health status, physical constraints, lifestyle habits, etc)
- Designing aerobic fitness, musculoskeletal fitness and healthy weight management programs in line with the client data
- Intensity (% HHR, % VO2R, %HRmax, METs, MET minutes per week, Step Counts, RPE, % 1 RM, sets, repetition, dynamic versus static exercise, reps per time etc)
- Prescribing/monitoring appropriate intensity and progression
- Selection of appropriate exercise equipment
- Demonstrating proper exercise techniques and modifying client performance
- Knowledge of proper and improper exercises
- Select, modify the equipment and training to match the client
Safety, Emergency and Injury Prevention
- Supervision, intervention and spotting techniques
- Identifying appropriate and inappropriate joint stress
- Guidance for the prevention and recovery from musculoskeletal problems
Documentation, Administration and Professionalism
- Emergency action plan; procedures/response
- Ethical business practices
- Plan for ongoing professional development