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Corrective Exercise Certification
Help millions of people with preventable low back pain, shoulder and knee pain as well as those with muscle-related pain or movement limitations.
Why choose an ISSA certification over others?
1. ISSA is the most accredited – Your training will meet the highest standards, be widely recognised, and put you ahead of the competition to get a job or start your own business.
2. ISSA are the best rated and reviewed – Others who have gone before you can attest to the quality of the course and have taken the time to voice their satisfaction, thus reinforcing that the ISSA certification will take you to the top of your game.
3. ISSA are the fastest growing – The word is spreading that ISSA certifications yields the best results. The best time to get started is always now.
COURSE SNAPSHOT
✔ Online self-paced content
✔ Complete in 12 months or less
✔ Taught by industry leaders
✔ Exclusive modules you won’t find elsewhere
✔ Obtain 2 Certificates!
✔ ISSA Exercise Recovery Specialist Certification
✔ HMA Practical Preparation
✔ Apply now for our 2021 intake
✔ Places are strictly limited
✔ Choose to complete online only for $439 or combine with practical workshops for $759
What You'll Learn From This Course?
Our course material is continually updated so you can be sure you’re receiving the most accurate and up-to-date information available. You’ll learn everything you need to know to start helping clients start moving better and feeling less pain:
- Understand the roles that a personal trainer or health care practitioner are legally and ethically allowed to play when correcting physical dysfunctions
- Explain the structure and function of the human skeletal system
- Describe the structure and function of the skeletal muscle system
- Explain the structure and function of the nervous system
- Describe the primary joint actions and the muscles that drive them
- Explain how movement is initiated, maintained, and modified
- Describe the four necessary steps to prepare for your client
- Explain the essential roles of motivation, feedback and exercise capacity
- Outline the steps to perform a movement analysis for any exercise
- Explain the steps to restore structural alignment and stability from head to toe
- Describe the corrective exercises that correspond with the most common movement dysfunctions
- Describe soft tissue assessments and correctives for the most common joint restrictions
Your New Career as a Corrective Exercise Specialist Starts Here
- Study at your own pace with flexible, online learning to fit your busy schedule.
- Pass your certification exam online wherever you’re most comfortable.
- Enjoy unlimited educational support from your team who loves fitness too!
- Rest easy with great customer support before, during and after your certification.
The ISSA’s Corrective Exercise Course will help you learn how to identify and correct the most common movement dysfunctions that you are likely to see in a wide range of clients, from the weekend warrior to the serious athlete. Both health care professionals and certified personal trainers can benefit from this distance education course, learning more about how people move incorrectly and how to guide them to correct those dysfunctions.
Tailored Study Options
Study your way at your convenience
Everything you need to learn is all online. Whether you need to study on-the-go in between a busy schedule, or quietly in the comfort of your own home, you can learn in a way that best suits your needs.
Online Practice Exams and Quizzes
Prepare for your final exam as you study! Take practice exams and chapter quizzes to ensure you’re ready to pass the final exam and earn your certification. These practice exams and quizzes will not affect your final score, they are just here to help you pass and earn your certification with flying colours!
Certified at home
Take the final exam from home – no need to go to a testing centre. Eliminate the hassle and stress of travelling to a testing centre and testing in a unfamiliar environment. Complete the test in a comfortable and familiar place where you can perform your best on the exam.
How the ISSA Corrective Exercise Specialist Works
We know that balancing your studies with an already busy schedule can be a challenge, which is why we designed a flexible, self-paced online course schedule that allows you to study when, where, and how often you’d like.
Get Instant Access and Start Studying Right Away
Access your digital textbook online. With 1-2 hours of studying per day, most students finish in just 8-10 weeks. Feel free to study at your own pace.
Complete Quizzes and Test Your Comprehension
We offer multiple online practice quizzes throughout the course to completely prepare you for the final exam and for real life coaching and helping.
Take the Open-Book, Untimed Final Exam from Anywhere
You read that correctly – the final exam is online, open-book, untimed, and can be completed over multiple sessions! You can even go back and change any answer, at any time, before you submit your exam. If you don’t pass the first time, we even allow you to re-take the exam.
What You'll Get With This Course
Online Course Textbook
The main course text includes everything you need to earn an ISSA Corrective Exercise Specialist. The course material is continually updated with new information so you can be sure you’re receiving the most up-to-date information available.
Online Study Guide and Workbook
This online handy reference guide walks you through the course unit-by-unit, allowing you to gain a better understanding of corrective exercise concepts.
Online Exercise Lab
ISSA and Hyperstrike provide you with an exclusive online exercise lab with over 250 animated exercises. 3D animation and three different angles ensure that proper form and technique are a breeze!
Practice Exam and Section Quizzes
The practice Exam and quizzes test your understanding of the materials; so while you’re reading you’re preparing for the exam at the same time.
Online and Home Study Exam
ISSA’s certification exam solidifies your proficiency as a fitness professional. Choose a paper-and-pencil exam or utilize our secure online testing portal. One No-cost Retest (if necessary).
Online Student Forum
Our online forum is where you can post client or business challenges and receive guidance from our on-staff Master Trainers and members of the ISSA family worldwide.
Free Professional Website
All ISSA members get a free website to support their personal trainer careers online. Five pages of professionally designed, easily editable, fully hosted content is included. Choose from nine designs and put your best face forward online!
Unlimited Educational Support
All ISSA students have access to unlimited educational support. If you have questions about the course materials, our on-staff professors can guide you through. This support continues even after you earn your personal trainer certification.
PLUS! Exclusive to Health & Movement Academy at no additional cost
This portion of the course is exclusively designed by Health & Movement Academy to give you an edge over all other fitness professionals.
Practical Preparation
The practical workshop is delivered over 2 days and contains over 15 hours of face-to-face learning which bridges the gap between theory and real life application in the gym setting.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is required to get my corrective exercise certificate?
You must meet the following:
- Submission of all course quizzes
- A score of 75% or better on all sections of the final examination
- Proof of current Adult CPR/AED certificate
Does ISSA offer the ability to take quizzes and exams online?
Yes, Online testing, for both quizzes and final exams, is the preferred testing method. Online testing saves you the hassle of organizing and photocopying your answer sheets, saves you from a trip to the post office, saves you postage for registered mail, and keeps track of your submissions in your Member Account. What’s more, online testing produces a much faster turn-around time for grading!
Can I get a printed copy of the textbook?
In addition to the free online version of the course textbooks, you can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses. Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
What do others think of ISSA?
Don’t simply take our word for the high quality and excellent standard of the course. Find out what others are saying by checking out the staggering number of positive Trust Pilot reviews at https://www.trustpilot.com/review/issaonline.com
Meet the Instructors
Eugenio Palmieri
Eugenio is an experienced entrepreneur and management consultant with over 20 years experience in entrepreneurship, business development and corporate management.
Through his extensive experience with global organisations in the fitness, financial, and manufacturing sectors he has helped numerous entrepreneurs and organisations streamline their operations, save costs and set growth strategies.
Eugenio has established one of the first Anytime Fitness clubs in Singapore. He is to date co-owning and operating three successful Anytime Fitness clubs in Singapore.
His qualifications include:
- Bachelor of International Business And Management Studies - Rotterdam University, The Netherlands
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology - Latin American University of Leon, Mexico
Dr Jon Marshall (Osteopath)
Educational Background
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Complementary Medicine)
- Masters of Osteopathy
- Masters of Applied Science (Acupuncture)
- Masters of Strength and Conditioning (Current)
- Certification in Advanced Occupational Ergonomics, Colorado State University
- Functional Manual Medicine, Michigan State University, USA (Current)
Fitness Certifications
- Clinical Pilates (DMA)
- Diploma in Contemporary Pilates
- Level 1 Australian Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Certified Personal Trainer (American Council of Exercise)
- Certified Personal Trainer (International Sports Sciences Association)
- Master Trainer (International Sports Sciences Association)
- Sports Performance Specialist (American Council of Exercise)
- Functional Training Specialist (American Council of Exercise)
- MMA Conditioning Specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine)
- Corrective Exercise Specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine)
- Bio-Mechanics Method Level 1
Lecturing experience
- RMIT University Lecturer (Chinese Medicine), Melbourne Australia
- RMIT University Lecturer (Osteopathy), Melbourne Australia
- International College of Osteopathy Lecturer (Osteopathy), Tokyo Japan
- Founder, Course Director and Tutor of Manual Medicine Australasia
Other
- Australian Olympic Taekwondo Team Osteopath (Olympic Qualification Tournaments 2011, Azerberjian & New Caledonia; World Junior Championships, Egypt 2012; Olympic Qualification Tournament 2016, Turkey)
- Founder of Back In Health Osteopathy Australia and Back In Health Osteopathy Singapore
Filipe Pereira
Filipe Pereira, PTA Global CPT, NASM CPT, ACE CPT, ASCA CSCS, TBBM L1, has worked in the fitness industry for over 18 years in Canada, Ireland, UK and Asia. He started his career in 2003 in London managing fitness teams, group class studios and rebranding from Holmes place to Virgin Active, worked in senior management roles in Fitness First Asia, supporting its growth and rebranding its image. He is currently delivering advanced coaching for fitness trainers and businesses as well as running Fortitude FPI Personal training studio in Portugal.
His certifications include:
- BA in Fitness and Exercise Management by Open university London
- Issa CPT (Portugal)
- PTA Global CPT (Portugal)
- NASM CPT (Ireland)
- Australian Strength and Conditioning Association Level 1 (Singapore)
- Active isolation stretching by Aaron Matts (Singapore)
- Animal Flow L1 (Malaysia)
- Rehab Express, Essentials and Master Class by Rehab Trainer (Australia)
- The Bio Mechanic Methods Level 1 (USA)
- EBFA L1 and 2 barefoot (Singapore)
- Precision Nutrition L1 (Singapore)
- Singapore Weight lifting federation L1 (Singapore)
- British Weight lifting association (London)
- Les Mills Trainer in RPM, Combat, Pump and Attack
Filipe has been delivering fitness education for the past 7 years to thousands of new and experienced fitness coaches around the world. Sharing knowledge and experience to best serve the fitness industry has been its true passion and purpose.
Sean Chin
Sean Chin has been in the fitness industry for over a decade.
Currently the Head of Sales and Marketing for multiple Anytime Fitness clubs, he is an individual who strongly believes in creativity and gamification. Together with his passion for fitness, his vision is to make fitness fun and enjoyable. Through HMA, Sean seeks to take the fitness industry to new heights with technology and his expertise. He lives by his quote: “What we fear doing is usually what we most need to do.”
His certifications include:
- FISAF CPT (Singapore)
- TRX certification (Singapore)
- Kettlebell Certification (Singapore)
- Muay Thai Certification (Singapore)
- Crosscore 180 certification (Singapore)
- Dip. in Multimedia Software Engineering (Singapore Polytechnic)
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