● Trained to meet the national standards on how to: Coordinate health programs, minimize absenteeism among employees, advocate for behavioral, environmental, and policy change, build coalitions and mobilize the community, reduce health risk and identify health needs, perform social marketing and media campaigns, assess the community, create lesson plans and teach health classes, conduct and report evaluations.
● Duties are performed in many environments such as business and industry, community health organizations and nonprofits, health care, public health and government agencies, and schools and universities.

● Improves fitness of clients moving them through the Optimum Performance Training model (1. Stabilization Endurance, 2. Strength Endurance, 3. Muscular Development/Hypertrophy, 4. Maximal Strength, and 5. Power)
● Coaches proper form
● Formulates exercise plans
● Perform fitness assessments

● Design and implement group training programs
● Coach and cue participants in group training programs

● Performs movement and posture assessments to identify muscles that are overactive and muscles that are underactive.
● Creates personalized exercise and stretch plans to correct muscle imbalances.
● Safely coaches clients through exercises, cueing them for proper movement which promotes targeted and efficient muscle activation

● Health coaching methodology that promotes a hierarchy of intrinsic (what client desires) over extrinsic (what others desire) and systemic thinking (societal expectations).
● Teaches how to elicit best thinking and decision making through a respectful interaction between coach and client.
● Client centered approach in which methodology helps a person to discover where their motivation is found.

● Learned how to stretch people safely to improve flexibility and improve movement by pushing through movement restrictions
● Utilized the PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) method to deepen stretches optimally with minimal discomfort
● Successfully improved the quality of life of clientele by assisting with low back pain, various movement restrictions, and by helping create symmetry in the muscles in the body