Public Health and Personal Fitness
Module 8
Personal Training
14 Courses
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Client Onboarding and Fitness Testing Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Build an Outdoor Fitness Business Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Providing Nutritional Advice to Your Clients Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Mental Health First Aid for Fitness Trainers Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Developing Fitness Programs for Older People Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Build a Health and Fitness Business Network Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Building a Fitness Community, Client Retention for Trainers Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 06/01/2022 Finished: 08/01/2022 Kickstart Your Endurance Training Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Federation University Started: 04/05/2023 Finished: 12/05/3023 Measure Your Endurance Training Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Federation University Started: 05/05/2023 Finished: 12/05/3023 Sustaining Your Endurance Training Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Federation University Started: 06/05/2023 Finished: 12/05/3023 Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 06/05/2023 Finished: 12/05/3023 Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: Finished: 12/05/3023 Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: Finished: 12/05/3023
17 Books
A Natural Method of Physical Training: Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus Author: Edwin Checkley Publisher: Forgotten Books Published: 2019 Started: 02/10/2019 Finished: 07/10/2019 The Natural Method: Georges Hébert's Practical Guide to Physical Education Author: Georges Hébert, Ed Thomas (Editor) & Philippe Til (Translator) Publisher: Kindle Published: 2014 Started: 02/10/2019 Finished: 02/10/2019 The Natural Method: Fundamental Exercises: Georges Hébert's Practical Guide to Physical Education (The Natural Method Book 2) Author: Georges Hébert & Philippe Til Publisher: Kindle Published: 2015 Started: 03/10/2019 Finished: 12/11/2019 The Natural Method: Functional Exercises: Georges Hébert's Practical Guide to Physical Education Author: Georges Hébert & Philippe Til Publisher: Kindle Published: 2015 Started: 12/11/2019 Finished: 15/11/2019 The Natural Method: Self-Defense Techniques Author: Georges Hébert & Philippe Til Publisher: Kindle Published: 2015 Started: 16/11/2019 Finished: 20/11/2019 The Natural Method Swimming Techniques Author: Georges Hébert & Philippe Til Publisher: Kindle Published: 2015 Started: 26/11/2019 Finished: 14/12/2019 Women's Physical Education: Shaping Muscle & Beauty (The Natural Method) Author: Georges Hébert & Philippe Til Publisher: Kindle Published: 2016 Started: 14/12/2019 Finished: 13/05/2020 Fast Exercise: The Simple Secret of High Intensity Training Authors: Michael Mosley and Peta Bee Publisher: Short Books Ltd Published: 2013 Started: 07/09/2014 Finished: 13/09/2014 The First 20 Minutes: Exercise Better, Train Smarter and Live Longer Author: Gretchen Reynolds Publisher: Hudson Street Press Published: 2012 Started: 27/06/2016 Finished: 02/09/2016 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Author: Christopher McDougall Publisher: Knopf Published: 2009 Started: 20/07/2019 Finished: 19/07/2019 Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio Published: 2016 Started: 08/09/2019 Finished: 09/09/2019 Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance Author: Christopher McDougall Publisher: Random House Audio Published: 2015 Started: 15/08/2019 Finished: 30/09/2019 Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth Author: Adharanand Finn Publisher: Random House Audio Published: 2012 Started: 14/10/2019 Finished: 23/10/2019 Instinctive Fitness - A re-evolutionary approach to diet and exercise Author: Oliver Selway & Charlie Packer Publisher: Columbus Publishing Services Ltd Published: 2013 Started: 14/10/2019 Finished: 05/11/2019 Wild Strength Author: Ken Best Publisher: Kindle Published: 2013 Started: 06/11/2019 Finished: 03/12/2019 Bigger Leaner Stronger: Building the Ultimate Male Body Author: Michael Matthews Publisher: Oculus Publishers Published: 2015 Started: 16/06/2017 Finished: 20/06/2017 Functional Training and Beyond: Building the Ultimate Superfunctional Body and Mind Author: Adam Sinicki Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd Published: 2021 Started: 02/11/2021 Finished: 06/11/2021
“The significant thing in connection with brute creatures is that they do not have athletics. The lion keeps his marvelous strength without extraordinary effort. And so with other beasts. Their natural habits keep them in condition, and sometimes their natural habits do not seem to fully explain why they are so strong and so healthy. As a matter of fact, beasts are not, of course, always so strong as they would be under training, but by not training they escape other difficulties… If we are to take any special lesson from the lower animals, it must be that the best strength is that produced under natural habits.“
Edwin Checkley, A Natural Method of Physical Training: Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus, 1895:11
Biology studies the physical structure, chemical processes, molecular interactions, physiological mechanisms, development and evolution of living organisms.
Biomechanics is the science of how muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments work together to produce movement in a living body.
Biohacking, or do-it-yourself biology, is concerned with making small, incremental diet or lifestyle changes to achieve improvements in your health and wellbeing, often with the aim of achieving optimum health and performance.
This module came about when I started to more closely study how the human body develops and what makes it function; with the aim of using this information to improve my own health, wellbeing and exercise performance.
Personal training is focused on designing a program of fitness and nutrition instruction that enables a person to achieve their ideal physique with improved levels of physical performance. When you put biohacking and personal training together you end up with a combination that can empower you to move beyond traditional outcomes.
Getting into shape was something I invested more and more time into while building my MTA Portfolio. I did this as a part of improving my overall health, but also because I liked the challenge and seeing what my body was capable of doing.
I also became increasingly interested in the concept of biohacking and the more I educated myself about do-it-yourself biology, the more I applied it to my physical and psychological development.