Many ACE certified personal trainers want to continue their education in the forms of certifications or workshops, as it helps them learn new things and provide better services to their clients. Many coaches want to learn about nutrition. It helps them understand their clients better. They can set better training routines for their clients if they know what kind of nutrition plan their clients have been following.
Among many nutrition certifications, one of the most popular is the ACE sports nutrition certification. As an ACE personal trainer,you learned about anatomy and physiology of human body and how that applies to training, but during your ACE nutrition course you will be learning about human anatomy and physiology and how it applies to human nutrition.
ACE fitness course teaches you about principles of healthy eating along with pre and post workout nutrition but the ACE nutrition course will teach you about nutrition choices from setting up appropriate caloric intakes to understanding proper macronutrient intakes to making correct food choices. You will learn about the role of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants in human body, their appropriate intakes, effects of deficiencies on human body. This will help you guide your clients better in order achieve optimal health, fitness, and performance. You will be able to tell your clients what is suitable for them while what not. As an ACE personal trainer,you are limited with your knowledge in advance nutrition but combining your ACE personal training with ACE nutrition certification helps you gain expertise in both training and nutrition. This is great for your financial growth also as you can charge more for your services as now you will be providing more value to your clients.
By combining ACE nutrition course with ACE fitness course,you can better help your clients understand and manage conditions like diabetes, hypertension, NAFLD, etc… After studying nutrition, you will understand why certain nutrients need to be consumed more in such conditions and why certain nutrients should be limited/avoided.
Ace nutrition course helps an ACE personal trainer learn about the various eating disorders that might be affecting clients’ health and performance. Understanding eating disorders can help a coach understand their clients better.
Another reason to combine ACE fitness course with ACE nutrition is to learn about nutritional assessments, coaching methods, strategies, and tools that are often used to change body composition and how it affects our health and performance in the gym. A client who is in a fat loss phase might need to lower training volume based upon how they feel, too much reduction in volume might not preserve muscle mass and too much of volume might lead to injuries, so this needs to be planned well and this can be planned properly only if the coach is aware about clients’ nutrition habits.
As a coach it is very important for you to know appropriate nutritional strategies for your clients’ optimal health and performance. If you are setting up a high-volume cardiorespiratory training program or a high-volume hybrid training program but the client has been following a keto style eating pattern, you will not see huge improvements in performance and they might even see a significant negative impact on their performance.
Conclusively as an ACE certified personal trainer you need to renew your ACE certification after every 2 years and for that you need 2 CECS (continuing education credit points). Getting ACE sports nutrition certification will help you get those 4.8 CECs and will help you renew your ACE personal training certification.
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