PRE & POSTNATAL CORRECTIVE EXERCISE SPECIALIST™ (PPCES)

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trusted coach in perinatal health?

Fit For Birth’s Pre & Postnatal Corrective Exercise Specialist™ (PPCES) course takes a highly progressive and holistic approach to fitness. Go beyond a simple list of ‘Do’s & Don’ts’ and delve into the latest research to train your pre & postnatal clientele responsibly and with confidence. Become a highly sought-after authority for pre & postnatal women!

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Why focus on women’s health?

Prioritizing women’s health in fitness training is crucial, especially as women make up 50% of the population, and a significant percentage will experience unique health challenges related to childbirth. Studies indicate that nearly 75% of women will face urinary incontinence or pelvic floor issues, particularly during the postpartum period. With the Fit For Birth education, you will confidently be able to tailor training to address these challenges. Your expertise will not only enhance your pregnant and postpartum clients overall well-being, but will also create a specialized holistic approach often overlooked in traditional fitness programs. Empowering pregnant clients and postpartum women through targeted fitness training positively impacts maternal health, reduces instances of postpartum complications, postpartum depression, and fosters a supportive environment for families. You aren’t just changing the life of one client. You are promoting equality, well-being, and stronger communities.

IN THIS COURSE YOU WILL LEARN:

  • All about birthing practices in the modern world and where they came from
  • 3 trends in modern childbirth every trainer should know
  • Benefits of exercise during pregnancy
  • Common pregnancy considerations
  • Musculoskeletal and physiological considerations
  • Corrective exercise coaching assessment and skills

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  • Prenatal program design
  • Common postpartum considerations
  • Postnatal Program Design
  • The Fit For Birth 5 Foundations of Wellness (exercise, nutrition, mindset, breathing, lifestyle) and how to coach them
  • How to mentally and emotionally prepare your clients for their pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum

The PPCES Certification helps you CONFIDENTLY PROVIDE YOUR CLIENTS WITH:

  • Healthier pregnancies with fewer discomforts
  • Less labor and delivery interventions
  • Faster and more complete recovery
  • Healthier and better-adapted babies

What our PPCES graduates say

Why Choose Fit For Birth Over
Other Leading Certifications or going back to school?

research-based

Research shows rising rates in mechanized childbirth, infertility, and chronic childhood disease. Fit For Birth teaches the 3 trends every trainer should know and birthing in the modern world to help you fully understand how past practices can help inform the choices now available to women and teaches you how the medical system works so you can empower your clients to achieve the birth they want through education and understanding. This is a real advantage over your peers.

practical

Other courses provide ‘safe exercises by trimester’ while Fit For Birth teaches you exactly how to train your expecting and postpartum moms through corrective exercise and the game-changing Core Breathing Belly Pump™ – which once mastered, opens up almost limitless programming opportunities. Learn a revolutionary corrective exercise coaching assessment that you can use with any client and a simple yet powerful format to create pre & postnatal exercise programming. Discover exactly why corrective exercise is the new form of responsible fitness and take the guesswork out of ‘Do’s & Don’ts’ of pregnancy and postpartum exercise.

Holistic​

Fit For Birth takes a holistic approach by teaching the Five Foundations – a complete mind-body approach to perinatal health to empower mothers with a solid mental, emotional, and spiritual foundation. Learn to use visualization techniques to build moms’ confidence and an amazing connection to the body to help moms understand post-pregnancy weight loss and begin to “recover” while baby is still in the belly! To ensure you fully understand how to put the course material into practice, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a client on a two-hour video call with a Fit For Birth Head Coach – an invaluable bonus that is life-changing for both the student and the client!

FAQs

PPCES is the abbreviation for Fit For Birth’s Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist Course. It is also our Level 1 course and the first component of our Pregnancy Safe Coach Program.

-Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist Text (Online and Downloadable)

-PowerPoint Manual. (used with the video footage)

-Video Footage of a Live Course

-Additional Materials (assessment sheets and other handouts)

-Optional Live Video Call (VC) session with a Fit For Birth Head Coach

All materials are provided to you as part of a state-of-the-art E-Learning platform, which is fully accessible to you immediately, using your email and password.

1.9 NASM credits

Yes, you can contact your certifying body, request and submit a CEU petition application to determine the CEU value that will be given. This will often occur as follows:

You ask your certifying body to send you a CEU petition form, or find where you fill it out online. (We can help you find out this information!)

You fill out the form and scan or mail your certifying body some materials about the Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist Course (ie. course outline, course objectives, etc.—We at Fit For Birth provide you with these materials!)

Please note that, in our experience, most organizations will charge you a nominal fee (ie. $25) for taking the time to review materials that are submitted for the petition.

Your organization determines how many CEU’s to offer you. This usually equates to one credit given for each hour spent in education. The Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist Course is rated at approximately 26 hours. (See FAQ Question: How long does it take to complete the program?) It is not obligatory for your organization to approve this course, however, to date, we have not heard of any professional NOT receiving approval. If this is an important consideration for you, please contact your certifying body in advance to confirm whether or not our program is likely to be approved.

The short answer is yes. Our courses are available in the U.K. and currently Fit For Birth has students and graduates in more than 30 countries around the world. And we are “transferable” in that our course is recognized and even Pre-Approved by organizations who have jurisdiction in countries all over the world. For example, AFAA & NASM qualify fitness professionals in dozens of countries around the world, spanning multiple continents. ACE, NCSF and ACSM have a presence in Europe, and REPSSA is present in South Africa, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, U.A.E. and Canada.

Our courses are also transferrable in that quality education helps any fitness professional anywhere to perform their skills better. Even so, the most direct way to confirm for sure is to ask your employer, your clients, and/or your governing fitness body if they will accept a Fit For Birth course as part of your continuing education program. If so, then the answer is clearly yes.

The more involved answer may also be of interest to you. It takes time for official regulations to pass and international standards to be set. For example, the fitness industry has risen only in the last several decades and still is not regulated in most U.S. states. International regulation won’t likely occur until individual states and countries set their own internal regulations, perhaps over the next few decades.

Finally, the Pre & Postnatal Fitness Professional has not yet been identified as a unique profession, so specific regulation in this realm is not likely to begin until all of the above has been set prior or at least in conjunction. (This process is the same way that medical doctors, physical therapists, and massage therapists, for example, have gone from unregulated to regulated within states/countries and later to governed and accepted between countries.)

For Prenatal Professionals, companies like Fit For Birth are likely to be the trend setters who ultimately forge the paths to regulation – first nationally, then internationally. And this is our clear intention. We’re a great team to be a part of, growing every day, and intending to provide the most solid scientific progressive evidence wrapped into a fun education. We also aim to be fully transparent along the way, so we are happy to answer all your questions regarding this somewhat tricky topic.

It’s completely up to you on how fast you finish the program. We have had people complete it in a week or two, other people take months, to a year (and sometimes more)! Here is an approximate breakdown on what to expect from the PPCES online course material:

Prenatal Manual: 6 Hours

Postnatal Manual: 3 Hours

Video Footage of the 3-day Live Course with PowerPoint Manual: 15 Hours of footage

Quizzes: 2 Hours

Optional Video Conferencing with Fit For Birth Head Coach: 2 Hours

How Much Support Will be Available?

Fit For Birth Team Members are here to help and assist you with anything that you need. We are known for our thorough support and follow-through. Just call or email!

You will also find support from your Fit For Birth colleagues around the world via access to your Private Facebook Group. It is common for members of this group to offer advice and suggestions to those who post questions.

The primary audience of this course is Fitness Professionals. However, we have had participants from all over the health and wellness field:

Personal trainers
Yoga instructors
Pilates instructors
Massage therapists
Midwives
Doulas
Lactation consultants
Physical therapists
Health policy administration consultants
Fitness studio managers
General managers
Moms who are interested in deeper education in having a healthy pregnancy and delivery

Moms who are interested in deeper education in having a healthy pregnancy and delivery

This is a course that is intended for anyone interested in enriching their experience in Corrective Exercise, as well as any Health Professional who is interested in understanding a more complete truth about the modern birthing industry, the disastrous “three trends” that threaten the modern world, and the power of some radically underutilized natural solutions!

Absolutely! The course can be taken in any location, and we currently have instructors from thirty countries around the world.

The Course has already been pre-approved by multiple organizations that certify professionals globally. If you live in a country outside of the United States and would like us to seek approval for your fitness or health organization, please let us know! We add to our pre-approvals frequently.

Thank you for the important work you do. The modern world really needs birth professionals who have deep access to the natural solutions that can enhance your prenatal clients’ chances for smooth and successful natural births, without the need for medical interventions.

Midwives and Doulas have been participating in Fit For Birth courses since the inception of the PPCES. And there is no need for you to become a trainer “officially” in any other manner! As you learn from our courses, you will understand how to advise your clients on exercise, health and life coaching within the setting of your clinic, easily streamlining with your current practice. In addition, in most cases around the world and within the U.S., if you desire, you will be able to coach very specific exercises that can offer immediate relief for a variety of pregnancy and postpartum issues.

As a birth professional, you are in a great position to educate and help pregnant women and this course will put you at an even greater advantage!

Yes!

It’s usually simple and works like this – you will ask your certifying body to send you a CEU petition form, or find where you fill it out online. Fit For Birth can help you find this information. Please email: Theresa@GetFitForBirth.com.

You fill out the form and scan or mail your certifying body some materials about the Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist Course, i.e.: course outline, course objectives, etc. We at Fit For Birth will provide you with these materials!

Please note that, in our experience, most organizations will charge you a nominal fee (ie. $25) for taking the time to review materials that are submitted for petition.

Your organization determines how many CEU’s to offer you. This usually equates to one credit given for each hour spent in education. The PPCES is rated at approximately 28-30 hours. (See FAQ Question: How long does it take to complete the program?) 

Please note that it is not obligatory for your organization to approve this course, however, to date, we have not heard of any professional NOT receiving approval. If this is an important consideration for you, please contact your certifying body in advance to confirm whether or not the PPCES is likely to be approved.

Yes! Here is a precise example of what our Pilates students have experienced when they apply for CEC’s from Pilates Method Alliance (as of 2018):

1. Go online to this site (http://www.pilatesmethodalliance.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3671). Where it indicates, “For Petition Application,” choose “Click Here” and enter your login details.

2. Submit (A) the Course Outline, (B) Instructor’s CV, and (C) Manual Bibliography (All of which Fit For Birth will provide for you to easily submit)

3. Pay $25 and wait for approval

4. Approval for 16 CEC’s (the required number in order to keep her PMA certification every 2 years) has been given to our graduates, and the approval came in less than 2 weeks!

YES! The primary audience of this course is Fitness Professionals. However, we have had participants from all over the health and wellness field:

Yoga instructors
Pilates instructors
Massage therapists
Midwives
Doulas
Lactation consultants
Physical therapists
Health policy administration consultants
Fitness studio owners
Fitness studio managers
General managers
Moms who are interested in a deeper education, and having a healthy pregnancy and delivery

Yes, the course is designed for participation entirely online, at any location that is convenient to you. You will need a computer with internet access. If you do not have online access, please contact theresa@getfitforbirth.com and we will happily help you find another way to participate.

There are six quizzes that highlight the main ideas from the course work, and help solidify your understanding. These are very straight forward and primarily right out of the manual. They are designed simply to highlight the most important areas of information.

Essentially, you can say, “I have completed Fit For Birth’s Certificate of Advanced Qualification Continuing Education Credit: Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist Course.”

No, there is no recertification necessary. Once you have completed the course, you are considered a “Fit For Birth Pre & Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist” and remain part of our worldwide family for no additional cost.

Upon completion of your Quizzes or Video Call (VC) Session, the certificate of completion will be emailed to you.

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