AFAA Courses

AFAA’s G.E.A.R. Indoor Cycle Training is an evolved approach to traditional Indoor Cycling that acknowledges the broadened set of knowledge, skills, and abilities that instructors need to be successful in today’s highly competitive indoor cycling market. Duration: 3 months

Learn practical skills and hands-on experience needed to inspire and motivate class participants to strive to create happier and healthier lives. Duration: 3 months

In this first release of AFAA’s Sustaining Mobility & Movement series, group exercise instructors and personal trainers learn to uncover dysfunctions in the body’s kinetic chain and the associated movement deficiencies that can lead to poor movement patterns and potential injuries. Duration: 1 month

In the second piece of the Sustaining Mobility and Movement Series, you’ll get an in-depth understanding of the functional anatomy of the foot, ankle and knee and how to correct the imbalances you see in group exercise settings—reducing injury and improving overall mobility. Duration: 1 month

This workshop focuses on what it takes to be an effective and safe group exercise instructor. Duration: 1 month

Learn the skills needed to teach safe, effective, and fun kickboxing classes in this online course. Duration: 1 month

Expand your knowledge and explore new exercises by adding a large stability ball and a small Pilates ball to your Yoga and Pilates fusion workouts. Duration: 1 month

In this online course, you’ll focus on the physiology of women during and past midlife, including the stages and symptoms associated with menopause, and the long-term effects of estrogen deficiency (e.g., osteoporosis and heart disease). Duration: 1 month

This program is the starting point for aspiring yoga teachers. Duration: 1 month

This online program covers program goals, class format and design, and guidelines. Duration: 1 month

Your AFAA Personal Fitness Trainer certification combines the most current science with over 30 years of experience and leadership in the fitness industry. Duration: 3 months

This online program covers exercise sequencing for more creative and metabolically effective workouts. Duration: 1 month

With AFAA’s bundled Injury Prevention Series – Essential Injury Prevention (Parts 1-4), you’ll take group exercise to an individual level by learning to assess your class and see how students move, uncover common imbalances and misalignments, and make adjustments to correct them. Duration: 1 month

Learn 175 exercises while taking an in-depth look at 11 of today’s most popular group exercise modalities, covering bodyweight training, foam rolling, stability balls, elastic resistance, sliding discs, medicine balls, suspension training, dumbbells, kettlebells, active resistance and box/step drills. Duration: 1 month

Based on the original works of the late Joseph H. Pilates, this online program combines the best of both Eastern and Western philosophies and traditions. Duration: 3 months

This program focuses on injury risk factors, types of injuries, injury terminology, and stages of inflammation and repair. Duration: 1 month

Learn how to confidently lead a safe and challenging multi-level yoga class in a variety of settings. Duration: 3 months

This program focuses on the sources and symptoms of stress and techniques that can be used to help manage stress. Duration: 1 month

In this course you’ll learn about perinatal factors, including: fetal growth and development, labor and delivery, obstetrical complications, physiology of pregnancy, hormonal changes, cardiorespiratory changes, and metabolic and endocrine factors. Duration: 3 months

This fusion-based format is a true balance between standing and floor exercises in a variety of positions. Duration: 1 month

The Sunrise Yoga online course introduces you to a gentle approach to Yoga that will teach you how to create a progressive series of poses that flow smoothly and accommodate all fitness levels. Duration: 1 month