For Leaders
Experience and Credentials
Experience in providing exercise instruction. This experience may be in fitness center, community setting, outpatient hospital setting or as a personal trainer.
Educational background in exercise or some aspect of public health. The appropriate educational background might include medicine, nursing, nutrition, family and consumer science, exercise physiology, occupational/physical therapy, massage therapy or community/public health. This educational background will be invaluable when explaining the importance of exercise and strength training in particular to program participants.
Certification by a reputable health and fitness organization.
Hands on experience with exercise, nutrition or working with older individuals are an excellent foundation for teaching the program.
Forms for Training
Forms for conducting the program will be stored in this folder.
Form for physician to sign to allow program participant to enroll in the program.
Promotional postcard to advertise program
Trainings
Descriptions:
StrongWomen
Site Leader Trainings teach the basics for implementing the StrongWomen
program. Participants need to be actively strength training and have a firm
commitment to lead a StrongWomen program in their community.
StrongWomen Booster Pack and Update Trainings. You need to be a site leader leading the StrongWomen program for one year before attending Booster Pack training.
Site
Leader Training Time: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Booster Pack
Training Time: 11:00
AM to 4:00 PM
To
learn more about the trainings and for registration and costs,
contact:
Nancy Wiker, M.Ed.
Extension Educator, Family Living
Penn State Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County
1383 Arcadia Road, Room 1
Lancaster, PA 17601
Phone:717-394-6851
Fax: 717-394-3962
Email: nwiker@psu.edu
Additional Information:
