Cooper Fitness Specialist

The purposes of the Cooper Fitness Specialist (CFS) class is to provide exercise instructors with the specific fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to correctly provide safe, effective, and progressive exercise programs within an organization such as military, law enforcement, fire service, athletic, educational, or corporate.

Scientific and evidence-based lectures topics reviewed:

Medical Screening
Coronary Risk Factors
Anatomy/Kinesiology
Exercise Physiology
Nutrition
Behavior Modification
Safety
Fitness Assessment
Goal Setting
Body Composition Assessment
Strength
Flexibility and Cardiovascular Prescription
Fitness, Wellness, and Motivation

The Cooper Fitness Specialist class is uniquely designed to help develop the skill set of instructors who are responsible to their employed organization for the following: medical screening, fitness and nutrition classroom lectures, hands-on screening methodologies, physical fitness assessments, case study design, and physical training (PT) workbook development.

This historically successful fitness foundation class is recommended to organizations requiring a nationally recognized certificate for their instructors who are working one-on-one or managing a fitness training class within the organization.

The requirements for successful completion include:

Current CPR
Written Exam
Verbal Testing
Body Composition Practical Testing
Case Study and PT Forms Completion

CPR Required: Yes

Contact Hours: 32

Class Location	Dates	Registration Contact
P.O. Box 700 Plummer, ID 83851	June 16-20, 2008	Eva Windlin-Jansen ewindlin@bmc.portland.ihs.gov (208) 686-9355
Joliet Junior College 1215 Houbolt Road Joliet, Illinois 60431	July 7-11, 2008	Heather Marshall hmarshal@jjc.edu (815) 280-2437