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Personal Trainer

A.Y. 2019/2020
6
Max ECTS
42
Overall hours
SSD
M-EDF/02
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course provides an introduction to and theoretical-practical skills in personal training; it provides knowledge about the fitness market via direct contact with local wellness centers. The course provides skills in the essential aspects of personal training and case-history analysis of customer reception, advice and provision of technical and didactic guidance, control of services delivered, appropriate communication.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will acquire skills and knowledge in techniques and teaching of functional training in the weights gym and knowledge about small non-conventional equipment. Students will gain an understanding of the routine work of a professional trainer, customer needs analysis, and charts for programming training programs and registers for monitoring long-term objectives, customer loyalty; students will learn the essentials for working as a personal trainer: sales; customer service; personal business accounting; visibility (personal branding).

Lesson period: Activity scheduled over several sessions (see Course syllabus and organization section for more detailed information).

Lessons timetable

Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi

Exams calendar

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Course syllabus and organization

GRUPPO 1

Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
COURSE PROGRAM:
· The Wellness market, profession at the service of health and well-being
· Fitness / Wellness Centers structure and services
· The Personal Trainer: entrepreneurial strategies to transform technical skills into a profession
· The Personal Trainer service and relationship dynamics within the fitness centers.
· Functional areas and tools
· The concept of movement linked to functions: functional training and flexability
· New methodologies of functional training
· How to communicate your service: customer approach and loyalty strategies.
· The Personal Trainer and the sale of the service.
· Personal branding, Personal Trainer marketing
· Tax aspects
· Case history
Prerequisites for admission
No requirement
Teaching methods
Frontal theoretical and practical teaching
Verification laboratory for the proposed contents
Teaching Resources
RECOMMENDED TEXTS / REFERENCE MATERIAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Personal Trainer Profession" Piero Chiappano (Franco Angeli)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Theoretical questionnaire
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Lagorio Silvia
Shifts:
-
Professor: Lagorio Silvia

GRUPPO 2

Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
· The Wellness market, profession at the service of health and well-being
· Fitness / Wellness Centers structure and services
· The Personal Trainer: entrepreneurial strategies to transform technical skills into a profession
· The Personal Trainer service and relationship dynamics within the fitness centers.
· Functional areas and tools
· The concept of movement linked to functions: functional training and flexability
· New methodologies of functional training
· How to communicate your service: customer approach and loyalty strategies.
· The Personal Trainer and the sale of the service.
· Personal branding, Personal Trainer marketing
· Tax aspects
· Case history
Prerequisites for admission
No requirement
Teaching methods
Frontal theoretical and practical teaching
Verification laboratory for the proposed contents
Teaching Resources
RECOMMENDED TEXTS / REFERENCE MATERIAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Personal Trainer Profession" Piero Chiappano (Franco Angeli)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Theoretical questionnaire
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Lagorio Silvia
Shifts:
-
Professor: Lagorio Silvia

GRUPPO 3

Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
· The Wellness market, profession at the service of health and well-being
· Fitness / Wellness Centers structure and services
· The Personal Trainer: entrepreneurial strategies to transform technical skills into a profession
· The Personal Trainer service and relationship dynamics within the fitness centers.
· Functional areas and tools
· The concept of movement linked to functions: functional training and flexability
· New methodologies of functional training
· How to communicate your service: customer approach and loyalty strategies.
· The Personal Trainer and the sale of the service.
· Personal branding, Personal Trainer marketing
· Tax aspects
· Case history
Prerequisites for admission
No requirement
Teaching methods
Frontal theoretical and practical teaching
Verification laboratory for the proposed contents
Teaching Resources
RECOMMENDED TEXTS / REFERENCE MATERIAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Personal Trainer Profession" Piero Chiappano (Franco Angeli)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Theoretical questionnaire
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Lagorio Silvia
Shifts:
-
Professor: Lagorio Silvia