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Personal Trainer

A.Y. 2020/2021
6
Max ECTS
42
Overall hours
SSD
M-EDF/02
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
Provide the students with theoretical and practical skills, able to introduce them to the profession of the Personal Trainer and let them know the reality of the Fitness market, through a direct approach with some wellness company in Italy.
Through customer service tools, proposal and delivery of the basic technical and didactics contents, control methodologies of the offered service and a correct communication, the student will be able to recognize the fundamental aspects of the profession and be able to solve basic Case History .
Expected learning outcomes
Provide the students with the movements, techniques and educational of functional training in gym floor and knowledge of small unconventional tools; Make them understand the typical work tools of the profession such as the client's cognitive surveys, the training planning tables and the monitoring registers for the achievement of the proposed aims. Finally allow him to know basic concepts characterizing the profession of the Personal Trainer, which are the sale, customer car, tax aspects and visibility (image and communication) of the service offered.

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

EDIZIONE 1

Lesson period
year
Covid Emergency Education will be delivered online. The theoretical part through the Microsoft Teams application in synchronous mode and the practical part through the Zoom application always in synchronous.
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 Survey
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Lagorio Silvia

EDIZIONE 2

Lesson period
year
Covid Emergency Education will be delivered online. The theoretical part through the Microsoft Teams application in synchronous mode and the practical part through the Zoom application always in synchronous.
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 survey
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Lagorio Silvia

EDIZIONE 3

Lesson period
year
Covid Emergency Education will be delivered online. The theoretical part through the Microsoft Teams application in synchronous mode and the practical part through the Zoom application always in synchronous.
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 survey
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Lagorio Silvia

EDIZIONE 4

Lesson period
year
Covid Emergency Education will be delivered online. The theoretical part through the Microsoft Teams application in synchronous mode and the practical part through the Zoom application always in synchronous.
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 survey
Practice Test
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Luisi Davide Giorgio