Personal Trainer

A.Y. 2023/2024
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.
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

gruppo 1

Responsible
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
- The Wellness market, professionalism 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 fitness centres.
- How to communicate and sell your service: customer approach and loyalty strategies.
- The marketing of the Personal Trainer: which tools to promote one's work.
- Fiscal aspects.
- The concept of movement linked to functional training.
- Anamnesis and evaluation test.
- Muscle strength training.
- Muscle hypertrophy training.
- Development of mobility exercises for the improvement of motor performance.
- Cardiovascular training.
- Weight loss training.
- The Crossfit method.
- Development of a training mesocycle with different goals.
Prerequisites for admission
Knowledge of anatomical, physiological and biomechanical bases of movement.
Teaching methods
Theoretical and practical frontal teaching
Teaching Resources
"Professione Personal Trainer" Piero Chiappano (Franco Angeli)
"The muscle & strength pyramid: allenamento" Eric Russel Helms, Andy Morgan, Andrea Valdez (Editore Natural Peaking Publisher, 2020)
"L'allenamento ottimale" di Jurgen Weineck
Assessment methods and Criteria
Multiple choice theoretical questionnaire and development of a specific case study
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Dei Rossi Manuel
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Dei Rossi Manuel

gruppo 2

Responsible
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
- Wellness market, professionalism in the service of health and wellness
- Fitness/Wellness centers structure and services
- The Personal Trainer: entrepreneurial strategies for turning technical skills into a profession
- The Personal Trainer's service and relationship dynamics within fitness centers.
- The concept of movement related functional training and flexability
- Anamnesis and assessment tests
- Muscle strength training
- Training of muscle hypertrophy
- Development of mobility exercises for improved motor execution
- Cardiovascular training
- Weight loss training
- The CrossFit method
- Development of a training mesocycle with different goals
- How to communicate and sell your service: client approach and retention strategies.
- Personal trainer marketing: what tools to promote your work
- Fiscal aspects
Prerequisites for admission
Basic anatomical, physiological, and biomechanical knowledge of movement
Teaching methods
Theoretical and practical frontal teaching
Teaching Resources
-''The Muscle & Strength Pyramid: ALLENAMENTO''
di Eric Russel Helms, Andrea Valdez, Andy Morgan
-"Professione Personal Trainer" Piero Chiappano (Franco Angeli)
- ''L'allenamento ottimale '' di Jurgen Weineck
Assessment methods and Criteria
Multiple choice theoretical questionnaire and development of a specific case study
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Annoni Stefano