This certificate prepares students to develop safe, effective, and efficient resistance training programs. Students evaluate biomedical, physiological, and genetic factors affecting strength and muscle tissue gain and learn proper form, technique, and spotting for resistance exercises using body weight, free weights, resistance machines, and other resistance-training disciplines. Proper program design and implementation are applied to both healthy adults and special populations.
Graduates may be employed as corporate, community, or hospital-based fitness and personal resistance program trainer.
Starting salary for graduates range from $15.00 - $20.00 an hour depending on position and responsibility.
Program Chair/Advisor
Pat Morganroth, MSN, RN, CDE
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