Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist Certificate

$499.00

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Guide young athletes towards strength and conditioning excellence with specialized training techniques as a Certified Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist.

Inspire The Athletes of Tomorrow

The AFPA Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist Certification is your ticket to providing world-class fitness training to young athletes.

Are you passionate about fitness, training, and motivating young athletes to excel and improve their performance?

Do you already have knowledge and first-hand experience from participating in sports throughout your life?

Whether you are a personal trainer, coach, group fitness instructor, or parent, our Youth Strength and Conditioning Certification will give you the best training education, exercises, and programs for establishing a strong fitness foundation and maximizing athletic development in youth.

What’s It Like Being a Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist?

As an AFPA Certified Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist, you have the power to make an impact every day. You’ll gain the expertise needed to:

  • Provide a healthy, positive strength and conditioning experience that will benefit youth dually as exercise enthusiasts and athletes
  • Develop productive strength and conditioning programs for youth (ages 6 to 18) that safely increase young athletes’ coordination, flexibility, speed, strength, and endurance and provide a proven regimen geared to three developmental phases, long- and short-term training plans and sports-specific programs
  • Design and implement a properly designed and supervised training program to assist young athletes to train and compete and to reduce the likelihood of injury
  • Demonstrate and teach proper exercise technique for over 111 resistance exercises using weight stack machines, free weights, medicine balls, elastic bands, and bodyweight resistance
  • Educate and provide the tools necessary to the young athlete on how to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle into their adult years
  • Implement innovative ways to incorporate resistance exercises into physical education classes, sport practice sessions, and exercise facilities

The Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist Certification Program Includes:

  • All course materials
    • 2 certification textbooks
  • Ready-to-use youth strength and conditioning programs
  • Training activities
  • Online final exam

What You Will Learn:

This program will provide you with all of the knowledge, core skills, confidence, and tools that you’ll need to begin your journey as a Certified Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist.

How to Effectively Train Young Athletes

Learn the best training methods for working with youths ages 6 to 18. The training programs and exercises provided take into consideration critical factors, such as a child’s developmental stage, motor functioning, and gender-specific considerations, to ensure that the workouts do not hinder development and growth. Regardless of the sport, you will have ready-to-use programs for both short-term and long-term development. Topics include:

  • Stages of athletic development
  • Monitoring training
  • Flexibility training
  • Speed training
  • Agility and quickness
  • Strength and power training
  • Endurance training
  • Program assessment and prescriptions
  • Training guidelines for youth

Exercise Technique and Training Procedures

Working with a specialized population such as youth athletes requires fine-tuning your coaching abilities. In this module, you’ll learn how to appropriately interact with children, teens, and young adults to develop trust and successfully guide them towards to toward reaching their potential! Topics include:

  • Understanding children
  • Being a teacher
  • Developing the fitness workout
  • Using equipment safely
  • Keeping it progressive

Designing Programs for Bodyweight Training and Equipment-Based Training

You’ll dive into how to effectively prepare programs that seamlessly blends preparatory conditioning and dynamic motivation. See exactly how to stack exercises to create a customized workout experience tailored to the youth athlete. Learning objectives include:

  • Free-weight exercises
  • Weight machine exercises
  • How to incorporate elastic bands and medicine balls into training
  • Elastic band exercises
  • Medicine ball exercises
  • Bodyweight exercises

Developing Strength and Power For All Ages

From the components of the warm-up and cool-down, to machine and free-weight strength training exercises, to medicine ball and elastic band strength training exercises, and other training considerations, you will learn how to structure a variety of different strength and conditioning programs for youth at any fitness level.

  • Basic strength and power for ages 7 to 10
  • Intermediate strength and power for ages 11 to 14
  • Advanced strength and power for ages 15 to 18

Teaching Sport-Specific Power and Strength for Young Athletes

Help your young clients improve in their favorite sport! You’ll learn how to instruct and lead youth towards to toward sharpening their skills in sports such as:

  • Training for sport conditioning
  • Baseball and softball
  • Basketball and volleyball
  • Dancing and figure skating
  • Football and rugby
  • Ice hockey and field hockey
  • Soccer
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Track and field

Periodization, Recovery, and Fueling the Young Athlete

Not all work happens in the gym. By the end of this final module, you’ll be able to accurately coach young clients to practice positive health habits to ensure they are properly taking care of their bodies outside of your sessions together. Learning topics include:

  • Overreaching and overtraining
  • Models of periodization
  • Rest and recovery
  • Long-Term development
  • Basics of healthy eating
  • Hydration
  • Snack Foods

Why AFPA?

Join over 130,000+ AFPA certified professionals worldwide.

With a 27-year legacy of accredited expertise, AFPA is a frontrunner in health, and specialized fitness programs. We’re proud to offer the best variety of flexible, affordable, and accessible programs on the market.

Credibility

An AFPA certification backs you with industry-leading credibility that leads to more clients, higher rates, and a greater impact.

Flexibility

Our courses are online and self-paced, so you can fit the training into your schedule. Move through at your own pace in 6 months or less.*

Affordability

We want our programs to be as accessible as possible. We offer flexible payment plans to fit your budget.

Community

Become a part of a community of health, nutrition, and fitness professionals. We’re leading a movement toward global health and wellness.

Whole-Person Approach

We understand that each aspect of your health is interconnected. We equip you to address an individual as a whole – from health and nutrition to lifestyle and mindset.

Career Support

We’re here for you even after you become a graduate. We offer tools and support to help you create a career path that fits you and your needs.

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“There is definitely a lot of information to take in, but I am enjoying all that I am learning! Excited for what the future holds!”

— Kimberly S., Verified Buyer

This Program Is Perfect For Anyone Who Is:

  • Passionate about helping youth develop sports-specific fitness skills
  • Considering a career change towards to toward one that is more fulfilling
  • Already an established health professional, such as a personal trainer, and wanting to diversify or expand their health education

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Michelle Melachrinos
I'm so excited.

I have been in a place of personal reset and since I took your training with holistic nutritionist and continue to certify it's been hard to market myself. But I learned to apply what you taught me and coupled with some other things I have learned I know the next move is the personal trainer certification. So thank you for the chance to be able to begin to mentor people. I'm trying to put my own personal testimony together called my personal Reset I had this started seven months before I ever checked into this and so imagine the encouragement I received when the beginning of the class they talked about reset. Thank you for your continued guidance have a blessed day.

Dual certification is an exciting endeavor, Michelle! Congratulations on your Holistic Nutritionist Certification and best of luck in your Personal Trainer Certification program! We're here if you need anything as you move through your new course.

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Juliana G.
I wish i could hace more movement since the begining.

I think we need yo be more practical because we read a lot, and i think is better to be more active instead

FAQs

Are There Payment Plans? Answer

Absolutely!

Pick the loan that fits your budget and make payments over three, six, or 12 months. Our payment plans offer instant approval and are safe and secure.

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Do I Qualify? Answer

To enroll in the Youth Strength Conditioning Specialist Certification, you must

  • Be at least 18 years of age.
  • Have a solid understanding of the English language.

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