James Krieger – Personal Trainer Collective – Coaching Clients with Obesity (Module 01 – 06)

What will James teach you?

Coaching Clients with Obesity is specifically designed to empower the personal trainer when dealing with the unique challenges of clients with obesity. Obesity is a global epidemic, and clients with obesity need special consideration from both a nutritional and exercise standpoint.

Course Syllabus

What will James teach you?

Coaching Clients with Obesity is specifically designed to empower the personal trainer when dealing with the unique challenges of clients with obesity. Obesity is a global epidemic, and clients with obesity need special consideration from both a nutritional and exercise standpoint.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Obesity – A Unique Challenge

Unit 1: What is Obesity

Define obesity

Understand the health implications of obesity

Identify the countries with the highest and lowest obesity rates

Understand the spread of obesity in the United States of America

Unit 2: The Primary Driver Behind Obesity

Understand energy balance and how it impacts body weight

Identify the components of energy balance that are driving obesity

Understand how the environment can impact food intake

Understand how palatability and energy density can impact food intake and food-seeking behaviours

Understand optimal foraging theory and how it relates to overeating

To identify how food technology has impacted the reinforcing characteristics of food

Define “settling point” and understand how palatability and reward impact it

Understand how food variety impacts calorie intake

Unit 3: Secondary Drivers of Obesity

Identify secondary factors that are contributing to the obesity epidemic

Understand how food form can impact appetite and satiety

Understand the mechanisms via which sleep loss can contribute to obesity

Understand how inactivity can impact food intake

Module 2: Nutrition Strategies for Weight Management

Unit 4: Energy Balance and Setting Calorie Targets

Understand the adaptations that occur in the body during an energy deficit

Identify the advantages and disadvantages of small and large energy deficits

Be able to calculate calorie targets for weight loss

Unit 5: Setting up a Sustainable Nutrition Plan

Identify the characteristics of a sustainable, reduced calorie diet

Understand appropriate protein intakes for the obese client

Define energy density and understand how to apply our knowledge of energy density to construct a high-satiety diet

Understand the basic mechanisms behind the efficacy of popular diets

Understand basic semi-quantitative and non-quantitative dieting strategies

Understand the importance of dietary adherence

Identify how to alter food environment to enhance adherence

Module 3: Exercise and the Obese Client

Unit 6: Components of Energy Expenditure

Identify the components of energy expenditure

Understand the relationship between metabolism and bodyweight change

Unit 7: Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)

Define non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)

Understand the magnitude of inter-individual variances in NEAT

Understand what happens to NEAT with age, weight loss, exercise, and obesity

Unit 8: Impacts of Endurance Exercise and Interval Training on Energy Expenditure Fat Loss

Understand how endurance exercise impacts energy expenditure during exercise and during recovery

Understand how interval training impacts energy expenditure during exercise and during recovery

Understand how interval training compares to endurance training for energy expenditure and fat loss

Unit 9: Impacts of Resistance Exercise on Energy Expenditure and Fat Loss

Understand how resistance training impacts energy expenditure during exercise and during recovery

Understand how volume and intensity can impact energy expenditure and fat loss

Understand how resistance exercise compares to aerobic exercise regarding the effects on metabolism and 24-hour energy expenditure

Unit 10: Impacts of Exercise on Abdominal Fat & FFM Retention

Understand how exercise intensity may impact abdominal fat

Understand how exercise may impact fat-free mass retention during weight loss

Identify the difference between fat-free mass and muscle

Understand the interaction between resistance training and fat-free-mass retention

Unit 11: Impact of Exercise on Appetite

Understand the different appetite responses to calorie restriction and exercise

Identify how exercise may impact appetite

Understand how exercise intensity may impact appetite

Unit 12: Impacts of Fasted vs Fed Exercise on Energy Expenditure and Fat Loss

Identify the proposed mechanisms for fasted exercise improving fat loss

Understand the research findings regarding fasted versus fed exercise

Unit 13: Exercise Training Modalities for Obese Clients

Understand the unique challenges when programming exercise for an obese client

Identify which modalities of aerobic training, interval training, and resistance training may be most appropriate for obese clients

Apply programming principles to hypothetical examples of obese clients

Unit 14: Strategies for Increasing NEAT

Identify strategies to help increase NEAT and how to incorporate them into a client’s lifestyle

Understand how to use activity tracking devices to help increase a client’s NEAT

Module 4: Lifestyle Factors for Obesity

Unit 15: Sleep & Self Monitoring

Understand strategies to enhance sleep quality and quantity

Understand the relationship between self-monitoring and success

Identify how self-monitoring tools can be used to enhance success rates

Module 5: The Bigger Picture – Adherence and Long-Term Success

Unit 16: Long-term Weight Maintenance

Identify the reasons why long-term weight maintenance success rates are low

Understand the characteristics of successful long-term weight maintainers

Understand the importance of physical activity to long-term weight maintenance

Unit 17: Psychology of Obesity – Strategies for Adherence and Successful Weight Loss/Maintenance

Identify the psychological consequences and comorbidities of obesity

Understand strategies to set a client up for success

Understand variables associated with successful adherence, weight loss, and weight maintenance

Understand variables associated with lapses in adherence, and how to create strategies to limit lapses

Understand how motivation, intention, and planning are related to behavior

Understand the advantages of flexible versus rigid approaches

Understand potential sources of tension during weight maintenance, and how to manage or resolve that tension

Module 6: Consultation and Practical Programming

Unit 18: Consulting with an Obese Client and Practical Application

Identify the phases of consulting an obese client

Identify the information you need to gather during each consultation phase

Understand the basics of programming for an obese client

Understand how to use this information to make adjustments based on progress

Understand the special factors you need to consider when working with obese clients compared to the general population

Unit 19: Summary

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