Become a Trusted Pregnancy Fitness Resource
If you’ve ever trained a pregnant client (or perhaps become pregnant yourself) you likely know how frustrating it can feel to spend hours sifting through conflicting information online related to prenatal exercise—often to end up more confused than when you started! It’s time to put an end to this.
Join us for this 60-minute session to discover how to utilize an evidence-based training framework to help your clients successfully manage the unique stresses of the pregnancy journey, and emerge even stronger.
Learn how this easy-to-apply framework can help you design safe and truly effective prenatal and postpartum training programs for clients of all stages and fitness levels—without wasting one more minute searching for answers online.
What You’ll Gain from this CEC
Answers to client questions, like:
- “How do I stay fit during pregnancy?”
- “Is strength training during pregnancy safe”
- “What are the best pregnancy fitness protocols?”
- “What’s your top pregnancy training advice?”
- “What is the best exercise program for pregnant women?”
About Your Instructors
Carolyn Appel, ProNatal Fitness Chief Content Officer
With a background in competitive tennis, Carolyn has built a career on her passion for fitness and athletics over her two decades in the fitness industry. She received her master’s degree in Motor Learning and Control from Columbia University and continues to spread the message about the importance of the teaching and learning process in client skill development when presenting at national and regional conferences for IDEAFIT, NSCA, ACSM, and fitness facilities big and small.
As a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA, Carolyn spent several years on the faculty of the Equinox Fitness Training Institute and used to consider teaching her number one joy, until having her son, who shot to the top of the rankings in 2015.
Brittany Citron, ProNatal Fitness Founder and Chief Executive Officer
After nearly 12 years in the corporate world, Brittany Citron took her career in an entirely different direction after an eye-opening experience during her first pregnancy alerted her to the critical need for better education and resources to support people during the pregnancy and postpartum period. Brittany launched ProNatal Fitness in 2015—recruiting a team of experts to bring her vision of offering the Gold Standard in pre and postnatal resources and education to life.
Brittany holds a BBA from the University of Michigan, a Personal Training Certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), a Group Fitness Certification from the American Council on Exercise (ACE), and several pre and postnatal specializations, including Program Design, Corrective Exercise, and Diastasis and Pelvic Floor rehabilitation. In her role in creating ProNatal Fitness® courses, Brittany brings her years of corporate experience presenting complex information in a simple and systematic way so that the listener truly comprehends the information presented.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discover an evidence-based framework that can help you most effectively prepare your clients for the unique stresses of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood.
- Understand the critical “success factor” for training pregnant clients that is forgotten in most prenatal training programs today.
- Appreciate why conventional guidance given to mitigate pregnancy pains and injuries often has the opposite effect from its intended purpose – and what to focus on instead.
- Learn the #1 most effective core exercise plus powerful (perhaps surprising) strategies that can help ALL your clients — not just your pregnant ones — more effectively activate their core muscles.
What Your Course Includes
- 1 webinar video (1 hour in length)
- 1 research article
- 1 open-note, 25-question quiz
- Earn 6.0 AFPA CECs
