By AMAC

Chair-Based Exercise Instructor - Online eLearning


Start Date: On demand to suit Learner and Employer

Total Qualification Time: 6 to 10 Hours

Guided Learning Hours: N/A

Format: Online

Course Type: CPD

Industry Area: Exercise and Fitness

Venue:

Region: National


The Chair-Based Exercise Instructor certification provides you with the skills and understanding to lead your own seated exercise classes for frailer older adults and disabled adults.*

*Please note this is not an occupational qualification.


Regular price £289.00
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Regular price £289.00
Regular price Sale price £289.00

Training Overview


Course details

Participants will gain the skills and confidence to help improve the quality of life for older or disabled adults with chair-based exercise classes.

Key learning outcomes

  • How to plan and deliver chair-based exercise sessions, incorporating the key principles and values of the adult social care sector.
  • Everything you need to run inclusive exercise sessions which have a real impact on improving the quality of life for older adults and disabled adults.
  • The significant physical, mental and social health benefits of chair-based exercise, and how to effectively engage with your participants.
  • Appropriate exercises to improve aerobic fitness, muscular strength, mobility and flexibility in frailer older adults and disabled adults, and how to adapt them to meet individual needs.

Course features

This course can be completed online in approximately 6-10 hours either independently or live on Zoom.

You can complete your Chair-based Exercise Instructor course online through our e-learning platform, Learnstream.

You will find explanations, photographs and videos detailing how each component of your chair-based exercise session should be carried out, how each seated exercise should be performed and how to link all this knowledge together.

Access will be granted for one year. There is a hard-copy comprehensive training manual to accompany this course.

Prerequisites - what's required to participate?

None required.

Career Development

This certification allows you to run chair-based exercise classes in many settings including fitness centres, care homes and the community. Holders of this certificate can progress onto a wide range of level 2 and 3 chair-based exercise specific courses.

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