Fitness Professionals

Anyone interested in a highly comprehensive, and updated approach to pre and postnatal education.

You do not need a prior fitness certification to take this course.  Anyone can benefit from the information!  However, you do need a nationally recognized fitness certification, and at least 2 years working experience, if you wish to be listed on our website as a PROnatal Certified Trainer.

There are three key things that set the PROnatal Fitness pre/postnatal education apart from other courses:

1. Our Performance Training Approach: We view the pregnancy journey like the major athletic event that it is, and believe in training for it in that manner.  Just as training for a marathon looks very different from training for a golf tournament or downhill skiing, we believe prenatal and postpartum training should also have a very specific protocol.  Like other performance events: the demands are specific. the training should be too.
2. Our Detailed Programming Guidance: Learning new information is great, but often applying that information when developing actual client programs can be more challenging.  We make it easy for you with a very clear programming framework, detailed session planning guidance and templates, and even a specific Movement Assessment protocol.  The course includes all the templates you need making your programming work much easier!
3. The Benefits After Passing: Beyond your specialty certificate and CEUs, we offer the benefit of being featured on the PROnatal website as a PROnatal Certified Trainer at no additional charge.  This is not just a listing, but a full feature with your photo, bio, links to website/social media, and more.  You’ll receive exclusive on-going education and support.

The course is divided into 13 modules that you can progress through at your own pace.  Each module contains a webinar, a detailed downloadable PDF with all the text, and a self-check to ensure you’re comprehending the most important concepts.  Module topics include:

1. Benefits and Rationale for Performance Training Approach
2. The Demands of Pregnancy (How the Body Changes)
3. The Demands of Childbirth and Motherhood
4. Prenatal Program Framework (macrocycle)
5. Prenatal Client Assessment
6. Managing Pregnancy Pains & Injuries
7. Prenatal Programming Session Breakdown (microcycle)
8. Pregnancy Weight Gain and Nutrition
9. Pregnancy Psychological Changes and Effective Coaching
10. Postpartum Recovery
11. Postpartum Program Design
12. Postpartum Client Assessment
13. Postpartum Psychological Changes and Effective Coaching

• Webinars of each module
• Downloadable PDFs with all the detailed info for each module (including images and links to videos)
• Self-Checks for each module to gauge your comprehension
• Complete Video Exercise Library
• 12 sample workouts
• Programming Templates
• Prenatal and Postpartum Client in-take forms
• Movement Assessment Checklist
• Physician Consent Template
• Client Handouts
• ACOG Guidelines and Key Opinion Papers

See the next question for what you will earn after successfully completing the course.

At the end of the course, there is a 2-hr exam that you take at home on your computer.  There are 80 multiple choice and true/false questions.  You must receive an 85% (68 questions correct) to pass.

You will see you exam score immediately after submitting your test.  If you pass, you will receive:

• Pre/Postnatal Performance Training Specialist Certificate (available to download immediately)
• CEUs: ACE (2.8), NASM (1.9), AFAA (15), NSCA coming soon. (You can petition for other agencies as well.)
• Opportunity to be featured on our Find a Professional page as  PROnatal Certified Trainer (requires nationally recognized fitness certification and at least 2 years experience)
• On-going education and support

Exam re-tests can be purchased for $35.

After registering for the course, you will have access for 1 year.  However, all materials are available for you to download (including a detailed PDF with all the content for each module — over 50,000 words of text!).  So you will have access to the course content for life.

Both our online course and live workshop teach our Performance Training Approach, so either education will teach you our 3-stage programming approach, session breakdown, and assessment protocol.  The online course often goes into more detail, but the live workshops provide the benefit of discussion, Q&A, and hands-on practice.  So often it is a personal preference.  The following items are included in the online course, but NOT in the live training:

• Information on Pregnancy Weight Gain and Nutrition
• Information on managing Pre/Postnatal Psychological Changes
• Guidance on Client In-Take Questionnaire
• Detailed text of each module (workshop provides powerpoint of presentation), and self-checks

Also, the following items are included in the course, but must be purchased separately if taking the workshop:

• Programming templates and 12 sample workouts
• Movement assessment checklist
• Client In-Take Forms
• Video Exercise Library
• Client Handouts and Templates
• Opportunity to be featured on website as PROnatal Certified Trainer and receive on-going education and support.

In general, you can receive largely the same things at the same price from each offering if you attend the workshop, and purchase the post-workshop package where the above items are offered (with the exception of the higher CEU value from the course).  You just have to weigh what you value more from a learning perspective — detailed, self-paced online learning or live training with discussion and hands-on practice.

We are happy to answer any questions you have!  Email us at Education@pronatalfitness.com or give us a call at 516-778-9468.