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NASM Physique and Bodybuilding Coach

NASM

Physique and Bodybuilding Coach

Want to learn the secrets to achieving a lean, muscular physique that inspires others?

Skill up and take your coaching business to the next level with this specialised coaching course

Original price was: AUD $215.83.Current price is: AUD $132.50. / month for 6 months

Become a Physique and Bodybuilding Coach

Want to learn the secrets to achieving a lean, muscular physique that inspires others? Become an NASM Physique and Bodybuilding Coach and you’ll gain the tools you need to help your clients achieve their physique goals through effective weight training, diet, and supplementation.

NASM Physique and Bodybuilding Coach

Course Overview:

With NASM’s Physique and Bodybuilding Coach program, you’ll learn the diet and fitness secrets to help your clients reach their physique goals. With sections on nutrition, body aesthetics, exercise training principles, biomechanics of physique enhancement, and more, this comprehensive curriculum will arm you with the knowledge you need to help your clients reach their physique goals.

  • Help your clients achieve the physique of their dreams through a multidisciplinary approach to losing fat, building muscle, and developing an aesthetic physique
  • Teach your clients professional techniques to step on stage for a bodybuilding competition or photo shoot
  • Boost your reputation, earnings, and client base by training athletes of all ages and physique levels
  • Master the mental game with coaching principles and mindset shifts to help your clients make the changes necessary to achieve their goals
  • Gain access to a comprehensive curriculum crafted by 23 professional physique and bodybuilding experts
  • Self-paced online program makes it easy and convenient to complete the course in as little as 4 weeks
NASM Physique and Bodybuilding Coach

Course Outline:

There are no prerequisites for the Physique and Bodybuilding Coach Specialisation. A fitness credential or a bachelor’s degree could be helpful. This specialisation is intended for fitness professionals, bodybuilding and physique competitors and fitness enthusiasts..

Welcome
Learn about the role of a Physique and Bodybuilding Coach, program objectives and how the NASM Specialization can help enhance your career.

Introduction to Physique Enhancement
The learner will receive an overview of physique history and then define physique athletes and the broad spectrum of physique athletes. Physique enhancement will be discussed in terms of where it lies within the landscape of health, wellness, and sports performance.

Fundamentals of Anatomy, Physiology, and Biomechanics
This chapter provides the learner with a basic overview of gross anatomy, and the discussed bodily systems including the nervous, skeletal, muscular, and endocrine systems. The second half of the chapter examines disciplines of biomechanics and kinesiology, collectively termed Human Movement Science.

Essentials of Metabolism, Energy Balance, and Fat Loss
Gain a deeper appreciation of metabolism, which refers to a living organism’s chemical processes that provide energy. The ability to perform movement requires a constant supply of energy, and the process of generating kinetic energy from sources of potential energy is referred to as metabolism.

Mechanisms of Muscle Hypertrophy
Introduces the physiology of muscular hypertrophy. It will discuss myofibrillar hypertrophy (in-series in-parallel mechanisms) and sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. Also learn the major mechanisms of hypertrophy: mechanical tension, muscle damage, and metabolic stress.

Macronutrients
Learn the fundamental concepts of nutrition. The chapter will describe the structure and function of protein, carbohydrates, and fats, and discuss the digestion and absorption of each macronutrient.

Micronutrients and Hydration
Introduces the learner to micronutrients. The chapter will detail the differences between water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, and minerals. Furthermore, the implications for health and physique considerations will be discussed.

Supplementation
Learn common supplements’ risks, benefits, and efficacy to enhance fat loss and muscular hypertrophy, and examine myths about supplements.

Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs)
Learn common PEDs used to enhance fat loss and hypertrophy. This chapter will educate the Physique Coach regarding the dangers of commonly used PEDs such as anabolic steroids and stimulants.

Fitness and Body Aesthetics Assessments
Teaches the Physique Coach how to perform a comprehensive fitness and body aesthetics assessment as related to the physique athlete. The chapter will introduce the preparticipation health screening process before undergoing various physiological, posture, and body composition assessments.

Nutrition Assessment
Provides a basic introduction to healthy eating habits, the dietary guidelines, and the components of healthy eating patterns. Next, the chapter will discuss a detailed approach to assessing a client’s dietary intake.

Warm-up, Recovery, and Injury Prevention
Teaches the Physique Coach how to implement a corrective exercise warm-up to reduce injury risk, increase joint mobility, and muscle activation.

Resistance and Core Training
Learn scientific and application aspects of resistance training to the aspiring Physique Coach. The chapter also discusses core training, and it will begin by describing the benefits of core training.

Cardiorespiratory Training and Non-Exercise Physical Activity
Introduces the learner to established cardiorespiratory training guidelines and applications. Also learn the effects of cardio training and NEAT on body composition (fat loss, muscle gain, muscle atrophy).

Coaching Principles
Understand essential coaching principles to help motivate and support physique athletes through their journey. The chapter will briefly overview psychology and behavior change and how these principles apply to coaching physique athletes.

Exercise Programming
Understand exercise programming for physique athletes and examine various program protocols and how they apply to the physique athlete. Review two in-depth case studies and how resistance training programs were developed for these personas.

Nutrition Programming
Learn various nutrition programming strategies for physique athletes including determining calorie needs, macronutrient targets, and nutrient timing and periodization. Review three example case studies.

Peaking for Competition or Personal Goals
Learn important nutrition and exercise training components for physique athletes trying to peak at their time of competition. Learn the important considerations when preparing for a physique/bodybuilding competition.

Physique Transformation Sustainability
Identify strategies for preventing hyperphagia after reaching a physique milestone. The chapter will detail long-term strategies for sustaining gains made during the physique transformation.

After the completion of the course, you will take an online final exam from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you prefer to take tests, that consists of 100 questions. Each question will be multiple-choice. The exam is timed and cannot exceed 90 minutes. To pass, you need a score of 70% or higher. Don’t fret though, if you score below that, you have up to 3 attempts to pass.

Exercise Programming Manual: Access canned assessment templates, handouts, and exercise programs, including assessment forms, corrective exercise warm-up programs, and exercise programs for four phases of the OPT™ Model.

Nutrition Programming Manual: Access canned meal plans, including meal plans for various divisions (bikini, bodybuilding, physique) and goals (bulk, cut) from real life examples.

National Academy of Sports Medicine®

Enrolment Guidelines:

International Fitness Academy (IFA) has partnered with the National Academy of Sports Medicine® (NASM), a premier provider of quality education in the fitness industry. This collaboration brings together IFA’s commitment to advancing fitness professionals and NASM’s renowned expertise in science-based training and certification programs.

Students will be enrolled in to the NASM online portal to complete this certification.  The IFA Student Support team will assist with any course related questions and support.  You can contact our support team on 1300 659 275 or via email at support@internationalfitnessacademy.com.

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