MedFit Classroom Specialist Courses

Specialize and Thrive! MedFit Classroom is proud to offer online specialist courses for fitness and allied health professionals who are seeking to uplevel their education, focusing on medical conditions and chronic disease, and expand their services to reach the greatest need.

We’re always expanding our online education, so check back often for new programming.

Payment plan available for purchases of $399 or more. (3-payment plan. Start for only 1/3 down at time of purchase.)

Most courses approved for CEUs. Check individual courses for CEU organization and approval details.

Foundations of Medical Fitness

Although not required, we recommend students start with the 20-hour online course, Foundations of Medical Fitness: A Comprehensive Course for Specialists. This course will prepare you with the fundamentals of working with chronic diseases and medical conditions. Completion of this course and passing of the corresponding exam results in a certificate of specialization as a “Medical Fitness Specialist”.

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Course Description

It is estimated that 50 million Americans experience daily joint pain and discomfort due to joint damage or injury. Another 8.6 million more people are dealing concomitantly with low back pain. This combination, once introduced to weakened muscles and bones generally results in decreased mobility and stability, diminished strength, and a compromised ability to perform activities of daily living. Many choose pharmacological agents to decrease and diminish pain, only finding a temporary solution, with potentially harmful side effects. Many of the injured will continue to avoid exercise, falsely believing it will exacerbate the situation.

As the number of individuals diagnosed with these conditions increases, so does the demand for specialized fitness professionals with advanced knowledge, practical skills, and up-to-date education. These specialized fitness professionals can make all the difference by focusing their unique skill set on helping exercisers perform their preferred fitness activities without exacerbating injury or pain.

There is a significant need for a higher-level of educated fitness professionals to understand how to work safely and more closely with injured clients. The MedFit Orthopedic Fitness Specialist is trained to deliver individualized and appropriate fitness programming for the unique needs of individuals living with joint pain and injury. This course will educate the fitness professional on the communication skills and rapport building necessary to interact as a respected fitness professional amongst the respected medical community. Medical professionals will gain a better understanding of the role of the specialized fitness professional, and how their unique skill set can be utilized.

An Orthopedic Fitness Specialist can act by combining their foundational fitness knowledge with the Orthopedic Fitness Specialist course to guide clients into pain-free, joint movement. By learning to safely train “around the issues,” fitness professionals can adhere to physicians’ orders and other guidelines; work cooperatively with the medical care team for acute injuries and be prepared to offer sound training for those who may have chronic, joint injuries, limitations, or pain.

Course Description

Many lay people can take in the statistics and realization that obesity is crippling our society both financially and spiritually. It is crippling society literally and figurately! There are many physiological and biochemical principles in operation that have very negative effects on the physical and mental capacities of those afflicted with this disease. Having the proper mindset or paradigm for countering obesity is absolutely critical to have any success.

The metabolic facets of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), and the dreaded “metabolic syndrome” and the many clinical problems associated with it, are discussed in this course. We’ll discuss how higher intensity exercise actually targets VAT better, but it needs to be done in appropriate quantities to avoid injury and burn out. We’ll also discuss some of the principles of biochemistry and how what we eat not only has calories, but there are endocrine, metabolic, and even psychological factors affected by what we put in our mouth. The idea of starving oneself is perhaps the worst strategy one could use to counter obesity. It is important to understand what to eat as well as what to avoid to reduce VAT, and improve function.

A very comprehensive assessment protocol has been developed for this course, which includes anthropometric, eating, fitness, and clinical factors. “Coaching” could likely be the most important module in this program and any program that you are trying to get a “transformation” or change in someone’s lifestyle. The capacity to both listen to what the individual wants, and understanding the way they think is absolutely critical to opening them up for new perspectives and new habits. The exercises in this course are only the tip of the iceberg in what can be done to get an obese client moving, nourishing, and thinking like a thinner person.

This course will introduce the practitioner to Obesity, and the important links in the comprehensive process of being a weight management specialist. The trainer needs to understand the “why” something is being done, much more than “what” is being done, or how it is performed. The program should always be evolving to be more personalized, practical, and precise in meeting the needs, likes, and dislikes of that client.