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As an ISSA Certified Exercise Recovery Specialist, you will learn the connections between exercise science and the recovery process. You will also learn the individual factors affecting individual client responses to muscle recovery techniques. While once only seen in physical therapy applications, fitness trainers can now use this information related to sleep, soreness, stress, massage, nutrition, and even DNA.
As an ISSA Exercise Recovery Specialist, you'll help clients reach their fitness goals with a personalized program for their time during their workout and beyond.
Physiology of Muscle Damage
Overtraining
Psychology of Overtraining and Workout Recovery
DNA-Based Recovery
Nutrition and Supplementation
SMR and Flexibility Techniques
Sleep
Massage Therapy
Advanced Recovery Strategies
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As the awareness and emerging trend of recovery continues to grow, the fitness industry is realizing it is so much more than just stretching, foam rolling and scheduling rest days. Although trainers may realize the importance of emerging recovery techniques, they need a foundational knowledge of the science and the ability to make these holistic health recommendations. Applying the elements of recovery are just as crucial to training programs as the physical activity components. As a Certified Exercise Recovery Specialist, you will deliver a unified approach with clients to get them feeling, looking, and performing their best.
Mastering this cutting-edge topic will send you to the top of the trainer leaderboard, and have clients turning to you as the expert in the latest fitness advancement.
When you specialize in Exercise Recovery, you offer a paramount service to clients. This means you can increase your rates AND have a new, standalone service offering.
ISSA Certified Exercise Recovery Specialists have a passion for improving the quality of their clients' lives beyond their scheduled workout. They might also have a passion for corrective exercise and personal training, but these specialists take it a step further. Knowing how the body is influenced by sleep quality, stress release, rest, and nutrition - ISSA Exercise Recovery Specialists provide clients with the most robust program to get their best results. ISSA Exercise Recovery Specialists understand the complexities of the recovery process and the risks of not building a comprehensive plan for muscle repair.
So, how do you build the best recovery programs for your clients? As an ISSA Exercise Recovery Specialist, you'll personalize recovery techniques based on thorough assessments and the individualized needs of every client. Custom training like this keeps clients coming back because they know YOU put THEM first.
On your path to becoming a trusted Exercise Recovery Specialist, you'll learn:
This is an EREPS Approved Training Course - 10 LLP Points
EREPS is a fully independent register of instructors, trainers and teachers working in the European fitness and physical activity sector.
EREPS recognizes the qualifications and skills of fitness professionals, as an important assurance for consumers and employers. Our ultimate goal is to make sure that every instructor, trainer and teacher in Europe holds the appropriate qualification(s) to ensure that people can work out safely and effectively.