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• Build on skills and talents
• Need for bilingual educators.
• Additional coursework
• Adapted physical education
• Dual certification
• Become certified to teach more than one subject or even driver education.
• Practical experience
• Join professional organizations and network.
• Demonstrate use of technology 
• Additional courses in health and related areas
• —Certification
• ¡ACSM, First Aid/CPR, NATA, NSCA
• —Build on one’s interests and strengths
• —Practical experience
• ¡Internships, fieldwork, and volunteering
• ¡Gain diverse experiences

• Provide meaningful in-service programs
• ¡Increased feedback about performance by administration
• ¡Participation in professional organizations
• ¡Revitalize oneself on time off with hobbies or non-work related activities
• ¡Maintain good health

• Specialists work with healthy populations to increase their level of fitness.
• ¡Sites: Corporate fitness centers, commercial fitness centers, and community agencies (YMCA/YWCA

• Work with individuals who exhibit the effects of coronary heart disease focusing on attaining a functional state of living and an enhanced quality of life.
• ¡Sites: Hospitals, medical clinics or community agencies affiliated with corporate fitness centers

• Fitness development and maintenance
• —Educational efforts
• —Health promotion
• —Lifestyle modification
• —Recreational sport opportunities 

• —Medical screening
• —Fitness and lifestyle assessment
• —Goal setting
• —Supervised group programs
• —Educational classes
• —Motivation and reinforcement

• Direct program
• —Train and supervise staff
• —Budget responsibilities
• —Facility management
• —Marketing 
• Evaluation
• —Individual exercise prescriptions
• —Evaluate and counsel on lifestyle
• —Data collection and analysis

• 46% of all worksites offer programs
• ¡38% of small corporations
• ¡68% of large corporations
• —Potential to reach over 142 million adults
• ¡Convenient for employees
• ¡Offers peer and social support
• —Economic benefits to corporations
• ¡Reduced injury rates, lower workman’s compensation costs, and reduced health care costs
• ¡Enhancement of workplace morale, retaining employees

• Work in private and public settings:
• ¡Conducting fitness assessments.
• ¡Developing specific goals with clients.
• ¡Designing programs for goal attainment.
• ¡Coaching clients through workouts.
• ¡Monitoring progress of goals.
• —Growing use of the Internet, email, and phone to hire personal trainers and report results for convenience

• Assess, motivate, educate, and train athletes for the primary goal of improving sport performance.” (NSCA)
• —Competencies necessary in the areas of:
• ¡Scientific foundations of sport/exercise and nutrition
• ¡Exercise leadership and program design
• ¡Sport psychology to maximize performance
• ¡Risks of performance-enhancing substances

• Clinical exercise physiologists work mainly in hospitals and clinics.
• —Work closely with physicians to meet the needs of diverse clients.
• —To plan rehabilitation programs, they must be familiar with:
• ¡Medical aspects of clients disease or condition
• ¡Limitations faced by clients
• ¡Drugs commonly used to treat the disease/condition and their effects
• ¡Psychological aspects of exercise on the clients

• Education
• ¡Undergraduate and graduate education in exercise science, fitness and cardiac rehabilitation, etc.
• —Various certifications offered by:
• ¡ACSM
• ¡YMCA
• ¡AFAA
• ¡NSCA
• —Practical experience
• —Professional involvement

• Prevention of Injuries
• ¡Supervision of conditioning programs
• ¡Advising coaches and athletes
• ¡Assist with preseason physicals
• ¡Checking equipment and facilities for safety
• —Rehabilitation
• ¡Administers therapeutic treatments and monitors progress.
• ¡Motivate and encourage throughout recovery
• ¡Record-keeping of injury status and history of injury
• —Certification - NATA

• Dance therapy
• —Recreational therapy
• —Kinesiotherapy
• —Physical Therapy
• —Chiropractor 
• Prerequisites may be required prior to admission for advanced study
• —Volunteer hours may be required for program admission

• health care professional who under the direction of a physcian treats the effects of disease, injury, and congenital disorders, through the use of therapeutic exercise and education
• prevention of deconditioning and debilitation and
• development and maintenance of functional fitness in persons with chronic diseas or disability

• ceritfied personal trainer
• healt fintess instructor
• registered clinical exerdcise physiologist

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