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Network
A Bit About Network
Established in 1987, and now powered by AIF, Network is a fitness education subscription service that delivers online courses, information and inspiration to fitness professionals from Australia, New Zealand and around the world. With an unrivalled variety of courses, across areas from strength training and functional anatomy, to pregnancy and nutrition, Network can help you stay at the forefront of the constantly evolving fitness industry and reach your full potential as a Personal Trainer or Group Fitness Instructor.
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Addressing Postural Abnormalities
Online
This course will teach you how to identify postural abnormalities by looking for different bony landmarks.
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A Guide to PCOS – What Every Fitness Professional Needs To Know
Australia
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in women, affecting an estimated 12-21% of Australian women of reproductive age.
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A Model for Plyometric Progression
Online
This course is an introduction to plyometrics, the physiology that makes plyometric movements so effective, and a simple, yet detailed progression model for immediate application.
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An Introduction to Creating Effective Social Media Content
Online
Content is the lifeblood of social media. What you put out into the world defines how your business is perceived, so it’s important to get it right. In this short course, discover what to post, and where and when to post it in order to reach your ideal audience and prospective clients.
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An Introduction to Strength Training for the Youth Athlete
Online
Gain insights into the prevalence of injury in Australian sport, and develop an understanding of how to reduce injury incidence and enhance performance by designing effective programs for this demographic.
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Resistance Training Program Design
Online
This course will take you through fundamental concepts that govern the prescription of a resistance training program.
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A-Z of Program Design: Maximal Aerobic Speed
Online
Maximal Aerobic Speed (MAS) based intervals is a unique metabolic conditioning training methodology as it allows for intervals to be pre-set to a percentage of an athlete’s vVO2max or MAS. Hence, the programmed MAS intervals are specific to an individual with a specific pre-determined speed, rather than being set to a pre-set work-to-rest ratio only.
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A-Z of Program Design: Olympic Weightlifting
Online
Olympic lifts and their different variations offer a valuable training method within a strength and conditioning coach’s performance training toolbox.
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A-Z of Program Design: Plyometric Training
Online
Plyometric training is an effective form of power-based training, improving an athlete's ability to rapidly store and recoil elastic energy within the musculotendinous unit, perform explosive movements and run with greater running economy.
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A-Z of Program Design: Speed & Agility
Online
The aim of this short course is to provide performance coaches with a greater understanding of the biomechanical and neuromuscular demands of acceleration, maximal running velocity, deceleration and change of direction performance, and how each of these vital performance qualities can be improved using an evidence-based multi-disciplinary approach.
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A-Z of Program Design: Squat Performance
Online
The aim of this short course is to provide performance coaches with a greater understanding of squat mechanics, including potential mobility restrictions and stability limitations, individual anthropometrics which may affect squat performance, and training strategies that can be implemented for squat movement quality.
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DISC-cussing Motivation and Exercise
Online
This course explores what motivation is, what prompts people to start an exercise journey, and the stages they go through.
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Eating Green: Meeting Nutritional Needs On A Vegetarian Diet
Australia
Research has shown that a varied and balanced plant-based diet can provide all the nutrients needed for good health.
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Exercise & Nutrition for Type II Diabetes
Online
Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia, with around 956,000 of us having been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and another 2 million estimated to have pre-diabetes. Therefore having an understanding of the condition and the role of lifestyle changes is important.
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Fitness Mastery Series: Coaching Skills for Maximum Client Results
Online
Being a successful Personal Trainer or Instructor is about more than simply prescribing an exercise session – it’s about becoming an Agent of Change. It’s about assisting your clients create meaningful change in their lives, by guiding them on a path towards better health and fitness.
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Fitness Mastery Series: Tactical Strategies For Fitness Business Success
Australia
Whether you’re just embarking on the journey of starting your fitness business or already at the helm of one, learn to build your brand, business and boost your bottom line with the Fitness Mastery Series.
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Fitness Mastery Series: Ultimate Women's Training Toolbox
Australia
From mental health, menopause and mindset, to pelvic floor and programming, the Ultimate Women’s Training Toolbox covers the critical ages, stages and specific considerations that every women’s fitness professional should know.
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Fuelling Fat Loss
Australia
Discover how to assist clients to reach their fat reduction goals through nutrition.
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Fundamental Matwork Pilates
Online
Fundamental Matwork Pilates is targeted at Personal Trainers and Group Exercise Instructors who want to learn how to incorporate basic matwork exercises into their current training. This is the brand new, updated version of our previous Fundamental Matwork Pilates online course.
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HIIT Happens
Online
This course will outline the science behind the principles of HIIT, why and how it works, and examples of how to design a workout based on these principles.
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Importance of Exercise as We Age
Online
This course explores the health and exercise of the ageing population, highlighting the importance of understanding the physiology of ageing.
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Intermediate Matwork Pilates
Australia
Intermediate Matwork Pilates is targeted towards Fitness Professionals who want to learn to design Intermediate Matwork classes.
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Introduction to the Human Body
Online
This course is all about our bodies! Explore the basics of human anatomy and the principles of what makes us living organisms.
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Legal Essentials for Fitness Professionals in Australia
Online
You don’t know what you don’t know about the law as it relates to operating as a fitness professional, right? The goal of this course is to explain, in a practical and FUN manner, the legal basics as it relates to operating as a fitness professional.
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Linear Periodisation for Personal Trainers
Online
Prescribing exercises and writing programs are the bread and butter of personal trainers. If you’re only writing programs from session to session, or week to week, then this course will allow you to program for your clients for 12 or more months.
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Maximum Strength, Absolute Power
Australia
Maximum Strength, Absolute Power is targeted towards Fitness Professionals who want to learn to design Strength & Power programs for their clients.
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Measuring Progress, Not Body Weight
Online
This course will bring to light the myriad of tests available to the informed fitness professional, helping you to choose the best ways to measure the progress of your client and prescribed training program.
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Movement for Mental Health: A Guide to Training Clients with Mental Illness Through Exercise
Online
The normal work of a fitness professional can profoundly influence individual mental health in a number of fundamental ways that can support the psychotherapeutic methodology of psychologists, counsellors, social workers and others in scope to work with mental health conditions.
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Muscle Function and Screening of the Lumbar, Hip and Shoulder
Online
This course will explore common impairments associated with the lumbar spine, hip and shoulder girdle.
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Nutrition Strategies for Strength & Size
Australia
Learn about the role of nutrition for increasing muscle mass.
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Personalisation Through Epigenetics, Embryology, Somatotypes, Health Types
Online
In this video course, Dr Cam McDonald delves into the world of epigenetics, embryology, somatotypes and health types to explore how our bodies grow to become the sizes and shapes they are.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series
Online
The Personal Trainer Masterclass Series is designed to give you in-depth knowledge and a comprehensive toolkit to look after specific population groups, setting both you and your clients up for greater success.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series: Coaching Around Metabolic Disorders
Online
As a coach within the fitness industry, it is extremely likely that you will at some point coach an individual with an underlying metabolic disease.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series: Coaching for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Online
The benefits of regular activity are not limited to our physical health; they are also significant to our mental health and wellbeing.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series: Coaching for Physique
Online
With physique goals being the most prevalent type of goal within the fitness industry, it is inevitable that as a PT you will coach an individual who fits within this category.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series: Coaching the Athlete
Online
Within this Masterclass, we will discuss the key areas you will require when testing and training athletic clients with performance goals.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series: Coaching the Beginner
Online
The beginner client group is arguably going to be the most common client that you will encounter in the fitness industry as a Personal Trainer or Fitness Coach.
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Personal Trainer Masterclass Series: Coaching Through Rehabilitation
Online
As any experienced coach will tell you, not all clients you serve will be 100% healthy.
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Pilates for Hips & Shoulders
Online
Pilates for Hips and Shoulders is for personal trainers and group exercise instructors who want to learn more about Pilates exercises specifically targeting strength, mobility and or function of the hip and shoulder joints.
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Pilates for Pregnancy
Online
Pilates for Pregnancy is targeted at Personal Trainers and Group Exercise Instructors who want to learn how to incorporate pregnancy-related matwork exercises into their current training. This is the brand new, updated version of our previous Pilates for Fitness & Pregnancy course.
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Pilates for Strength
Online
Pilates for Strength Training is for personal trainers and group exercise instructors who want to learn more about Pilates and Pilates-inspired exercises that will supplement and improve strength training.
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Pilates with Props
Online
Learn about some of the different props used in Pilates sessions in this course from international Pilates instructor Trainer, Stephanie Glickman.
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Plan the Perfect Group Workout: Lesson Plans that Never Fail
Australia
What will the workouts you deliver be like? Motivating experiences which energise participants and ignite a lifelong passion for movement, or a clock-watching drag that participants feel obliged rather than compelled to do? The choice is yours.
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Positive Gains: No-Nonsense Hypertrophy
Australia
Positive Gains: No-Nonsense Hypertrophy is targeted towards Fitness Professionals who want to learn to design Hypertrophy programs for their clients.
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Practical Applications of Endurance Programming
Online
Coaches and PTs who develop an understanding of the scientific principles underpinning endurance training will be able to readily assist clients with endurance-based fitness goals.
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Sports Injury Science Webinar Series
Online
As practitioners working within sports performance and with general populations alike, it is vital that coaches have a solid understanding of the epidemiology related to sports-related injuries, the associated risk factors with such injuries, and how such injuries can be prevented via effective Performance Training. The Sports Injury Science Webinar Series aims to provide coaches with a greater level of knowledge of such injuries, their causes, and evidence-based preventive strategies.
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Sports Nutrition for Endurance Training
Australia
Sports Nutrition for Endurance Training is a must for all Fitness Professionals wanting a more in-depth knowledge of sports nutrition.
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Strength & Conditioning Foundational Course
Online
This unique online learning experience outlines the key objectives of a strength and conditioning coach, the multi-disciplinary team, and the overall performance training and injury prevention process.
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Supporting Older Adult Clients with Healthy Ageing
Online
Exercise and physical activities provide a wide range of health benefits with no upper age limit and are integral to maintaining health and wellbeing at all stages of life. Despite this, participation rates in older populations are extremely low.
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Taking PT LIVE Online
Online
This course has been created to equip PTs of all experience levels with the tools to safely, effectively and efficiently train clients via online virtual sessions.
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Teaching Group Exercise
Online
Focusing on the specialist area of fitness once known as 'aerobics' and these days often referred to simply as 'classes', this course explores the many different types of group exercise and how to plan a structured group fitness session.
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The Art of Buying and Selling an Active Lifestyle
Online
The big question for many clients who are just beginning to invest in their health and fitness is: why lead an active lifestyle?
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The Group Fitness Movement – What’s Your Style?
Australia
Whether you’re completely new to fitness, or a seasoned participant wanting to take the first step towards becoming an instructor, this course contains the information you need. If you want big class numbers and a successful career in fitness, it helps to know who you are, what your strengths are, and how you can best serve those coming to you to change their lives.
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The Nervous System: Anatomy, Function and Involvement in Strength Adaptations
Online
Most of us are aware of our skeletal and muscular systems and their importance in all things physical activity. The nervous system, however, is a commonly overlooked body system within the fitness industry due to the fact that it cannot be directly seen or felt.
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The Performance: Cueing Your Next Move
Australia
This section explores the art of cueing – both verbal and visual, as well as instructor skills such as class planning, mirror imaging, the types of classes on today’s timetables, and music.
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The Sitting Disease: Health Consequences of a Sedentary Lifestyle
Online
The Sitting Disease and Sedentary Death Syndrome (SeDs) are two terms that we are going to become very familiar with in the next few years in the health and fitness industry.
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The Skinny Fat: What It Is and What to Do About It
Online
This course takes a look at the colloquial term ‘skinny fat’. As Personal Trainers, we will undoubtedly come across clients who present as ‘skinny fat’, who appear to be thin but are carrying more fat than what is recommended for their body type.
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The Ultimate Guide to Hormones and Fat Loss
Australia
Understanding the role of hormones can help fitness professionals assist their clients who are seeking help with losing weight and reducing body fat.
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Training Teens
Online
In this course you’ll be guided through key insights and considerations when working with teenage clients (12-17), to assist your delivery of 1-1 personal training or group sessions.
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Triumphant Team Training - Group Training Dynamics
Online
Small-Group Training is here to stay. By offering this service in addition to one-on-one training, more PT’s are reaching more clients, some due to its cost-effectiveness and some due to the camaraderie of working out in a group.
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Youth Athletic Development Webinar Series
Online
The aim of this webinar series is to educate practitioners on the key concepts of long-term athletic development, providing coaches with a greater understanding of how to properly train and progress youth athletes into adulthood. The series will explore the significance of physical literacy and fundamental movement skills, address the controversy of resistance training within youth populations, and outline a model for long-term development based on current scientific literature.
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