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NASM - Weight Loss Specialisation (NASM-WLS)

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Being overweight or obese greatly increases the risk of developing a chronic disease, such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. With NASM's Weight Loss Specialisation, you'll learn how to understand root behaviors contributing to a client’s weight loss struggle and provide the education and coaching essential for long-term success.

  • Gain the knowledge and skills to help overweight and obese clients lose weight safely
  • Help people achieve a leaner physique and improve their health and longevity
  • Understand the science of weight loss, including the physical and mental effects that clients must navigate to lose weight
  • Learn evidence-based nutrition, exercise, and behavioral change strategies that will help clients lose weight and keep it off
  • Help clients overcome the real-world obstacles that can sabotage their weight loss efforts
  • Self-paced online program makes it easy and convenient to launch your new career from home in as little as 8-10 weeks
  • CEU Value: 1.9 NASM
Curriculum
FAQ
There are no prerequisites for this course. Although the course is primarily intended for personal trainers, fitness coaches, nutrition coaches and other fitness/health professionals, there is no requirement that you be one to take the course.
Chapter 1: Introduction Review the course structure, programme objectives, and meet the client personas that will be used as case studies throughout the course. Chapter 2: Scope of Practice This chapter provides an overview of the landscape of healthcare and describes where a Weight Loss Specialist fits into the healthcare continuum. Develop an understanding of how to best serve your clients while ensuring you follow best practices.
  • 5 Infographics
  • 3 Videos
  • 3 Printable Handouts
Chapter 3: The State of Obesity Understand the scope of obesity and how it impacts society and ultimately clients. Learn the primary reasons for obesity and how clients may become obese. These insights are important for understanding clients at a fundamental level and how key drivers of obesity can be addressed by a Weight Loss Specialist. Chapter 4: The Physiology of Obesity Learn what changes occur in the body due to obesity and how that can affect the health and physical properties of the body, including the organ systems, hormones, metabolism, and neurobiology. All of these aspects can affect the way people with obesity respond to exercise. Chapter 5: Psychosocial and Obesity This chapter will discuss three critical domains of the psychosocial components of obesity: mental health, social influences, and eating disorders. Learn about self-esteem and body image, and how to empathise with your clients over these aspects of mental health. Social influences and social determinants of obesity will be explored in depth and potential solutions to addressing these issues will be provided.
  • 18 Infographics
  • 3 Videos
Chapter 6: Metabolism Understand the metabolism and how it relates to obesity, including energy balance and energy needs as well as the role of environment and genetics. Learn about the primary theories of what causes obesity from a metabolic standpoint and how a Weight Loss Specialist can operationalise those theories in practice and provide solutions to clients who have difficulty losing weight. Chapter 7: Nutrition and Supplementation Understand nutrition, supplementation, and dieting as it relates to obesity. Popular dietary schemes and archetypes have been used to address obesity for decades. Review these diets in detail as well as their efficacy and utility. Chapter 8: The Impact of Exercise on Weight Loss Exercise is most commonly thought of as one of the critical components to weight loss; however, exactly how it affects weight loss is often misunderstood. This chapter will provide an in-depth review of how exercise affects weight loss from a calorie expenditure perspective, a metabolic perspective, a health perspective, and the effects of exercise on mental health. Chapter 9: Psychology of Weight Loss The psychological effects of weight loss are as important as the physiological ones. This chapter will review five key components of the psychology of weight loss: coping, dieting, will power, adherence, and ambivalence.
  • 36 Infographics
  • 4 Videos
  • 5 Printable Handouts
Chapter 10: The Client Intake Process A critical component to achieving success as a Weight Loss Specialist is developing a clear, consistent, and thorough intake process. Individuals who require weight loss have specific needs when it comes to assessment. This chapter will review the fundamental components of developing a proper intake process and will provide a set of robust tools for Weight Loss Specialists to use. Chapter 11: Conducting Fitness Assessments Understanding the readiness and fitness of a client is imperative for Weight Loss Specialists. These assessments and tests (like calculating calories for goal weights) help the Weight Loss Specialist understand the current state of a client and determine where the appropriate starting point is using a thoughtful, systematic approach.
  • 7 Infographics
  • 4 Videos
  • 15 Printable Handouts
Chapter 12: Nutrition Coaching Strategies for Weight Loss Learn how to create a weight loss program, how to use strategies to increase adherence to the plan, and how to apply various assessment tools to make modifications during the plan to ensure ongoing success for the client. Learn about behavior change models that have been shown in research to be effective. Chapter 13: Fitness Coaching Strategies for Weight Loss Understand how exercise for the individual client differs, how intensity can affect overall energy expenditure via the constrained energy model, and the role of NEAT in the context of fitness coaching and weight loss. Chapter 14: Integrating Nutrition and Fitness with the Weight Loss Client Nutrition and fitness coaching are often part of an integrated plan. This chapter will utilise client personas to help you learn how to integrate the nutrition and fitness plans developed for a client. This chapter will provide a straightforward, defined process for how to set up, implement, and evaluate an integrated program for a client. Chapter 15: Weight Maintenance and Sustainability Sustainability and setting clients up for long term success is one of the most important aspects for a Weight Loss Specialist to consider. This chapter will review key aspects of how to ensure clients have sustainable results.
  • 11 Infographics
  • 6 Videos
  • 4 Printable Handouts
After the completion of the course, you will take an online final exam from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you prefer to take tests, that consists of 100 questions. Each question will be multiple-choice. The exam is timed and cannot exceed 90 minutes. To pass, you need a score of 70% or higher. Don’t fret though, if you score below that, you have up to 3 attempts to pass.
You will have 1 year from the day of enrollment to take your final exam.
No, you do not need to renew your NASM Weight Loss Specialisation (NASM-WLS). Once you pass your final exam, your NASM-WLS specialisation certificate never expires.
You will have 3 attempts to pass the final exam.
The Weight Loss Specialisation integrates evidence-based information on nutrition, exercise, and behavior change strategies to help clients reach their goals. You'll learn about the state of obesity, the science of weight loss, and strategies to coach weight loss clients and help them achieve long-term success. This course builds off of the foundational nutrition science taught in the Nutrition Certification, although that is not a pre-requisite to this course.
No, is it not required to take the NASM Weight Loss Specialisation program.
NASM-WLS is approved for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the following organizations: NASM - 1.9 CEUs AFAA - 19 CEUs ACE - 2.0 CECs CIMPSA - 10 CIMPSA Endorsed CPD Points
The final exam is administered online within your student portal. It consists of 100 multiple-choice questions and 90 minutes for completion.

NASM - Weight Loss Specialisation (NASM-WLS)

CEU: 1.9 NASM| 19 AFAA| 2.0 ACE
Become a NASM Weight Loss Specialist

Original price was: RM4,199.00.Current price is: RM3,899.00. SST

*Note : Price excludes 8% SST
  • CEUs: 1.9 NASM | 2.0 ACE | 19 AFAA
  • 15 In-Depth Chapters
  • 19 High-End Lecture, Demonstration, and Animation Videos
  • 30+ Downloadable Resources; Custom Infographics
  • 1 Year to Complete the Final Exam
  • Course content 100% Online; Access on All Devices
  • Certificate of Completion
  1. Upon payment, your online account will be activated with 1-3 days.
  2. Once your account has been activated, you will receive your account details through email, and you can get started! 
  3. You will have our support - we're just a text or call away.
  1. Register and pay for the course.
  2. Complete the self-guided online study materials in your own time from the comfort of home.
  3. Once ready, book for your exam (within 365 days of account activation). Exams are invigilated online.
  4. Pass the exam and receive your certificate!

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