Course Description

Program Description Fitness and Health Promotion is a two-year diploma program designed to prepare you for a rewarding career in the fitness industry. You’ll learn the science behind how the human body works along with a range of physical activity techniques to help your clients meet their fitness and overall health goals. This program has earned a strong reputation among employers because our graduates are well prepared to work in a variety of fitness-related positions. Year one includes science-based courses in anatomy and physiology. Year two builds on these basic building blocks to include more specialized courses like biomechanics, injury prevention, chronic disease prevention and healthy aging. Students also learn applied skills in the areas of: health screening fitness assessment exercise prescription, demonstration and modification counselling healthy active living group exercise leadership interprofessional collaboration This program is academically challenging and our experience shows that the most successful students: participate in physical activity and exercise want to learn to lead individual and group exercise activities are interested in helping others achieve health and fitness goals have good time management skills and are self-disciplined enjoy studying and learning about the science that underlies fitness and health promotion are willing to spend extra time outside of assigned class/lab time to develop strong practical skills know why they want to take this program

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