Description
This course is designed for those training and coaching menopausal women. We’ll guide you through major menopause changes in body and mind, motivation, confidence and ability.
As coach, you need to know the many symptoms of menopause so you can encourage nourishing and sustainable exercise that’ll improve women’s health, happiness and resilience.
Many midlife women want to keep training and competing yet they struggle to recognise the body they’re in, and they lack understanding on how to train optimally.
Huge volumes of research show the benefits of exercise in menopause, but with no standard education for practitioners we have an alarming gap between evidence and practice.
This course starts coaches on the journey to understanding the menopause, so you can guide women in your care to health and happiness, and tackle the status quo.
This course offers a range of topics so you can understand the menopause – what it is and does in body and mind – and apply insights in your work. Moving in menopause can be truly lifechanging, but there are rules to follow if you’re to ensure she’s safe, happy and getting the most out of it.
Course membership – available in September 2023
Do this course and you will…
- Better understand the emotional, physical and practical challenges of the menopause and how it can impact women’s relationships with sport and exercise;
- Appreciate and acknowledge your scope of practice in supporting menopausal women;
- Be able to offer effective support (within your remit and skillset) for menopausal females;
- Recognise signs of stress, anxiety and other mental health red flags in menopausal women;
- Build a trusted network of qualified professionals;
- Know which professionals to refer women onto when further help is required;
- Increase your understanding around menopause and its stages;
- Appreciate exactly why an individualised approach to sport and exercise is required.
Course Modules:
1. Menopause 101
This module offers a tour through the menopause: its stages and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and solutions. It is a broad overview of menopause, and the numerous ways it can impact mind, body and soul, so you can coach and guide women, and know exactly where to go for help.
2. Midlife Non-Negotiables
Really, this is five modules in one covering the lifestyle factors menopausal women need to optimise, HRT or no HRT, to manage symptoms, feel happier and enjoy a greater quality of life. This is Sleep, Mental Health, Pelvic Health, Exercise and Nutrition as they relate to menopause.
3. Nutrition
Understand the fundamentals of nutritional requirements for midlife women and what the science says about nutrition and weight.
4. Sleep
Sleep can be very disrupted during this period. Understand what can be done to support her to have as good a nights sleep as possible.
5. Mental health
The mental health symptoms can be as (if not more) significant than the physical symptoms. Support during this time is critical to help her manage and thrive.
6. Pelvic Health
An under appreciated body nucleus, this module offers vital and liberating information about women’s bladders, bowels and pelvic floors. This is how to coach women to engage their pelvic floors and recognise risks. And how you can incorporate pelvic exercise effectively in your work.
7. Breasts and Posture in Midlife
Many midlife women start to notice niggles in their shoulders and backs, as well as changes in their posture. This module will help. It covers breasts changes in midlife and offers practical guides and videos on the stretches, strength exercises and sports bras that can make a major difference.
8. Injury Risk and Resilience
This module gives you the information you need to reduce the risk of injury in menopause. Midlife women need to keep moving but the injury risks put some women off, while others don’t know how to protect their bodies and wind up hurt. This module helps you know and reduce these risks.
9. Exercise
Most of us now know that strength and impact training are vital for bone and muscle health, but achieving results and adaptations during menopause can be a challenge. This module is full of practical videos, guides and techniques for optimal training gains for menopausal women.
10. Putting it all together
Practical training plans, frequent questions, and our resources and references to help you complete the course.
Features
One and a half days of online learning
12 months access (with the option of extending for £40 a year)
Practical / instruction videos
Downloadable infographics
Content mapped to the CIMSPA Girls and Women’s Standard
Certificate of Completion (with CPD points – currently being endorsed by CIMSPA)
Don’t miss out on a unique opportunity to grab vital knowledge, directly from the experts, and use it immediately to make gains in performance and life
Course membership – available in September 2023
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4 reviews for The Female Body – Menopause Edition
Elena D. –
Very useful course. A lot of very powerful and new information for me. Definitely using it on myself and my clients already.
Thank you very much
Satu Hautamäki –
Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Very informative and I was able to apply my previous knowledge of anatomy and exercise. I previously knew bits and pieces about the subject, but the course put all that together. I am perimenopausal myself and needed the reassurance I am not alone, not imagining things and there are ways to cope with the changes. I will now be able to help others too 🙂
Andrew HOLMES –
I think the course is well priced lots of downloads to help with continual learning, there is always a perception being a bloke that you’re a bit of a fraud, the support material certainly adds authenticity to the delivery. Thank you.
Elzbieta –
Very basic, was able to correctly answer all questions at the end before I even started the course…
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