Description

The Physiological Testing, Analysis and Programming (PTAP) Certification is a comprehensive education series built to provide fitness and health professionals with the knowledge and experience required to fully harness the many benefits of physiological testing. The series consists of the Foundations, Advanced and Expert certifications.

The Foundations Certification is valuable to all fitness and medical professionals, performance coaches or individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge. By understanding how to effectively collect and accurately analyse and interpret physiological data, you will be able to build robust and customised training and nutrition programs tailored to minimise your clientele's physiological limitations while efficiently and effectively helping them achieve their goals. We will focus on:

• Human physiology specific to metabolic testing
• Testing processes (RMR and VO2max) including client preparation, modality and protocol selection, and parameter setting
• Data analysis and interpretation
• Identification of cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory limitations
• Zoning options
• How to create limitation and goal specific exercise and nutrition programming

The program is highly applicable for those within the health, longevity and performance sectors whether working with medical, general or athletic populations. We will employ the KORR CardioCoach metabolic analyser, but rest assured the program can easily be applied to any metabolic analyser (PNOĒ, VO2master, Cosmed etc.) In addition to the online course programming, weekly video calls will be coordinated in which to support the course material (two timings will be offered each week to support multiple time zones).

40+ hours of material

*You do not need to own an analyser to complete the certification. It is perfect for those who wish to learn about physiological testing prior to investing in a device.

Learning Objectives

• Review the primary functions of the respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic systems
  
• Understand the complex system interactions and their impact on function and performance
• Differentiate between testing and assessment to ensure the appropriate tool is used for each client
• Ensuring test validity and clean data
• In-depth review of how to use metabolic analysis to identify systemic limitations and how to zone
• When, why and how to apply effective individualised limitation specific exercise programming based upon a variety of health or fitness goals
• How to apply RMR and VO2max data to aid in nutrition planning

Course Content