NASM Women Fitness Specialization (NASM-WFS)

CEUs: NASM 1.3; ACE 1.3

Women have different fitness needs at different life stages! Help your clients successfully navigate through life stages with NASM’s Women’s Fitness Specialization.

The Women’s Fitness Specialization (WFS) gives you the resources to confidently design and adjust fitness programming for your female clients across their unique life stages and physical changes. From adolescences to pregnancy and postnatal needs, to mid-life and menopausal weight gain and osteoporosis, the WFS will show you how to immediately apply/use the NASM Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model to meet their changing fitness and health/wellness goals.

Course Overview:

Module 1: Introduction to Women's Health and Fitness
Module 2: Physiological and Anatomical Considerations for Women
Module 3: Psychological Considerations for Women in Fitness
Module 4: Fitness Assessments for Women
Module 5: Flexibility Training for Women
Module 6: Cardiorespiratory Training for Women
Module 7: Core, Balance, and Plyometric Training for Women
Module 8: Resistance Training for Women
Module 9: Integrated Program Design for Female Clients
Module 10: Nutrition Guidelines for Women
Module 11: Business and Professional Development