Nutrition certs - Personal Trainer Community - Forum

[Kathi]

Aside for basic certification training and some CEC education, I would like to acquire more training in the area of diet and nutrition. Many clients want to lose weight--some to gain. I would like to be able to provide something very concrete to help them if possible. APEX nutrition was suggested. NESTA was also suggested.
What can I add that can be of help the the healthy client just needing to lose weight--(I refer when someone is obese or has a condition.)

thanks

[Christina]

Kathi,

I have the perfect classes for you to take. UCLA offers online courses in nutrition. I have taken 3 so far: Intro to Nutrition, Sports Nutrition, and Effective Strategies for Dealing with The Obesity Crisis. They are not inexpensive (something like $460 plus the text) but I have learned a TON. If you would like more info let me know!

Christina

[Kathi]

Sure--that would be great! Thanks Christina

[Christina]

http://www.uclaextension.edu/index.c...ness/index.cfm

Click on "Current Courses and Events", then go to "Program Courses" and click on "Fitness Instruction and Outdoor Recreation." On the right side of your screen look for "Online Courses Only." The courses change every quarter (summer, spring, winter, fall). The lady who teaches the nutrition classes is Marge Morris. She is a fantastic instructor! Well worth the money in my opinion.

Hope this helps...
Christina

[Sandy]

Christina,

I looked on the UCLA website for the Nutrition classes, the advise you gave Kathi. I would also like to take this class since alot of people ask me about nutrition. Other than giving them the normal routine of watching portions and keeping white out of your meals... (rice, flour and so on).
I would rather take this class and be correct with the info I give to them. I checked out the class and there is a waiting list. Do I click on that? The online class is Jan 9 - March 27... would I be on a waiting list after that date?

Sandy

[Christina]

Hi Sandy,

The waiting list is most likely for the upcoming class. I think it is taught every other quarter so if you do not get in now you will not be able to take it until later in the summer. If I were you I would go ahead and get my name on the list. As people drop out you will move up and hopefully into the class!

Christina

[C Lenart]

Christina:

Long time. The waiting list is for the current course being taught through March 2007. If a person is adds themself to the waiting list and somebody drops out, the extension office at UCLA calls the next student in line on the waiting list and they have a few hours to call the UCLA registrars office to enroll. Last summer 2006, I was on the waiting list for the Nutrition Class at UCLA. Five days after the course started, I got a call from the extension office telling me that I had till 5PM to call the registrars office and enroll. Thankfully, I got in just in time.

Next quarter I'm taking the Exercise and Sports Nutrition class at UCLA with Marge Morris. Like you said, she really knows her stuff.

I went down to the Fitness certification Office inside the extension Building at UCLA on Friday, the 12th of January to see if there was anything they could suggest to see how I could take the Exercise Specialist Cert for the ACSM. Requires a "life science" undergrad degree. I have a social science degree from the University of California. Sheila King, the Director of the Fitness cert program at UCLA is supposed to call me back next week with some answers I hope.

Hope your holiday was good. I'm currently taking Randy Fiel's course in Exercise Prescription at UCLA. This course sure seems a lot like Tom Delong's course in Resistance Training. Same exercise prescription project at the end of the course. Am I missing something here?

Curt

[Sandy]

I think I will stick with my AAAI Certs and take the Sports Nutrition Certification that Joe Cannon instructs. The cost is a little less expensive than the UCLA and I can keep up with my CEC's.
Though I need to have Joe come to my area and instruct the class. Oh Joe.... where are you? Can you instruct a Sports Nutrition Cert in MD? Please, not in Baltimore.

Sandy

[Christina]

Hey Curt! How's it going? As far as the ACSM Exercise Specialist cert is concerned, have you contacted ACSM directly? A couple of years ago I was thinking about getting the HFI cert but it required a degree in a health related field. I have a degree in psychology so I emailed them and basically pled my case by saying that psychology is a borderline health related degree. I can't remember exactly what they said but they wanted me to send my transcripts and they gave me the impression that they sometimes make exceptions. (I never did b/c I decided to go a different route.) So I would definitely get in touch with them. Explain that you have a 4 year degree and that you are enrolled in UCLA's program. If they say "no" ask them if you can take a few additional classes outside of the UCLA cert program in exercise science. (Don't you have an advanced degree as well?)

I felt that Randy's class was geared toward the ACSM Health and Fitness Instructor cert and Tom's was more geared toward NSCA' s CSCS cert. Randy is more into exercising for health whereas Tom is a strength coach.

How are things going in Cali? Do you see very many people from our old class?

By the way, I'm really starting to get into running. (Nothing more than 5 miles yet.) Do you still run? I think you said you used to (or currently run) something crazy like 17 miles a day!!! And remember Dawn? She used to run 20 miles every other day and would bike 20 miles on her "off" days!!! And Kristen from one of my other classes used to run ultramarathons! I felt very inadequate!!! :lol:

[Christina]

OK Sandy! If you decide to go the UCLA route and if you have additional questions let me know!

Christina