Lecture Template

While waiting for the client to arrive, Leila, the personal trainer you are shadowing, wants to make sure you are familiar with what goes into an initial client consultation and why it is important to ask certain questions to get insight into a clients health and fitness history. You begin to ask questions to learn more about their approach.

Task

  • Watch our Week 1 lecture, linked below.
  • As you are watching, take notes on what questions Leila might recommend for including in an initial consultation and how she might approach that process.
  • The lecture will also walk you through the ACSM pre-participation screen and ACSM Risk Stratification processes. We will use both of those tools in our weekly case study and they are common tools in industry.
  • The lecture will also introduce you to the process of making S.M.A.R.T goals. This is a standard for developing assessable goals and will come up many times in this course since it is the foundation of how we program regardless of the clients needs.
  • Complete the questions embedded in the video as you watch. They are just quick checks for understanding to help you practice the content and break the video into bite sized chunks.

Criteria for Success

You will get the most out of this lecture if by the end of it you are feeling confident in the reasoning behind your answers to the knowledge check questions in the lecture recording, feel that you have a good list of recommendations for how to conduct your initial consultation, know how to effectively use pre-participation screening tools, and can identify the main elements of making S.M.A.R.T goals.