Continuing Education Credits/Units (CEC/CEU): http://www.npionline.org/
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
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Day-1 Description:
NPI’s Day-1 Workshop prepares personal trainers/exercise instructors, athletic trainers, and health/medical/fitness professionals to assess and educate their clients/patients in the analysis, assessment, and correction of posture and body alignment. The workshop prepares professionals to later complete NPI’s Certified Posture Specialist™ Certificate Program/Course and Examination to receive the CPS designation.
Day-1 Workshop Participants will learn to:
>> Establish this essential key assessment into your facility or organizations current health and exercise testing program
>> Implement a Posture and Body Alignment Assessment Program that will lead to a larger client/patient/membership base for yourself and your company
>> Reviews how poor posture and body alignment develop and evaluates the anatomical structures of the vertebral column and other extremities using a Posture and Body Alignment Grid, client/patient evaluation sheet, and NPI’s Posture Assessment Software.
>> Teach a systematic process to correct alignment, reverse patterns, improve posture, relieve back pain and train individuals incorporating NPI’s Four Points of Posture™ Program
>> This workshop is 60% lecture and 40% interactive hands-on training. A hands-on practical approach is used for demonstrations and experiential learning. Attendees that want to have their posture assessed should wear tank-tops, sleeveless t-shirts, or sports bras and shorts above the knee
Day-2 Description:
NPI’s Day-2 Workshop prepares personal trainers/exercise instructors, athletic trainers, and health/medical/fitness professionals interested in learning a detailed process to teach, analyze, and perfect resistance training exercises/movements to correct their clients/patients posture. The workshop prepares professionals to later complete NPI’s Certified Resistance Training Professional™ Certificate Program/Course and Examination to receive the RTP designation.
Day-2 Workshop Participants will learn to:
>> Teach specific upper, core, and lower body resistance training exercises designed to correct posture and body alignment
>> Select and teach the safest exercise movement for specific muscle groups based on physiological, neurological, and biomechanical principles
>> Teach, demonstrate, and grade/rank an exercise movement using NPI’s Exercise-Movement Grading System™
>> Develop observation, evaluation, educational, and feedback strategies
>> Implement the 3 phases of biomechanical/scientific analysis to perform resistance training exercises using free weights, cable/selectorized machines, body weight exercises, stability balls, exercise tubing, etc…
>> Sequence and select the best exercises to enhance a client’s/patients posture and body alignment using NPI’s Exercise Training Matrix™
>> This workshop is 20% lecture and 80% interactive hands-on training. A hands-on practical approach is used for demonstrations and experiential learning. Attendees that want practice and perfect resistance training exercises/movements to correct their clients/patients posture should wear tank-tops, sleeveless t-shirts, or sports bras and shorts above the knee
Continuing Education Credits/Units (CEC/CEU): http://www.npionline.org/


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