The Brain Health Trainer Certification course is for health, fitness, wellness, and medical professionals that are interested in learning more about the effects of exercise on the brain, mood and cognition, and how to practically apply them to exercise and physical activity plans. Many other professionals have expressed interest and derived value from the content of this course, as the principles of neuroscience and the exercise-cognition interaction can be utilized in multiple fields and applications.

The Brain Health Trainer Certification course is estimated to take 6-8 hours depending on your reading speed and the amount of time spent studying, revisiting, or absorbing course materials and content.

No, the Brain Health Trainer Certification course was designed to be an engaging, multi-media online learning experience. The course does not consist of only videos, although there is over 90 minutes of high-quality HD video embedded within the course. These videos are an average of 5 minutes of length, so there is no watching long, boring, low-quality videos with an expectation to absorb it all!

Yes, CECs/CEUs for the Brain Health Trainer Certification course will be provided through the Functional Aging Institute, and will include AFAA, NASM, and ACE. We are always working on applying to be elligible for more CECs/CEUs for a variety of professional organizations, such as fitness, health coaching, nursing, and more.

Currently, we do not have a specific requirement for CEC/CEU reporting in order to maintain your Brain Health Trainer Certification. However, this may change in the near future. Maintaining your Brain Health Trainer Certification means that you represent a new group of professionals in the health, wellness and fitness industry that advocate for accurate and effective brain health-related services and information. We therefore encouraging continued education in personal training, medical fitness, nutrition, health coaching, brain health, neuroscience, and lifestyle medicine.

In order to maintain your Brain Health Trainer Certification, you will be asked to retake quizzes and exams within the course during every annual update. This will encourage you to revisit course content that has been updated, and demonstrate your understanding of this new content through passing updates quizzes and exams. This is necessary giving that the concepts presented in this course are constantly becoming better understood through continued research.

Absolutely! Everybody has a brain, and everybody does or should exercise. Even if you are not planning on delivering exercise and physical activitiy plans or techniques, many health individuals have used the content presented in this course to make changes in their own lives, or in the lives in the individuals they work with.

The information in this course can be utilized for health education, program development, and to accomodate health and lifestyle modification plans. While exercise is often recommended by health, wellness and medical professionals, it is not usually personalized for brain health-specific outcomes.

The Brain Health Trainer Certification course is both evidence-based AND evidence-led. Much of the information presented in this course is based in evidence, but there are many theories that are presented, as well. The language of the course clearly distinguishes between the two, and several lessons have a bibliography of over 200 research articles that are referenced. The course does not always cite specific resources per statement or claim, as it would be distracting from the learning experience, but any questions regarding evidence may be requested through direct query forms, social media groups or FAQs.

A majority of the research referenced in this course is not conducted by course creator or advisors, although there are many studies that are, and more research continues to be done in order to further validate the concepts presented in this course.

At this moment in time, the cognitive-physical exercise library is not available for separate purchase. The content preceding the cognitive-physical exercise library is critical to understand before implementing these exercise techniques with clients.

While the Brain Health Trainer Certification course is not a course on how to provide exercise prescriptions or facilitate exercise sessions for individuals with dementia or other neurological conditions, there is course content that is relevant to working with individuals with dementia or other neurological conditions. The evidence demonstrating the cognitive and brain health benefits of exercise in various neurological conditions is well-documented, but the less evidence is available for more selective effects across these different populations. In addition, clients with other conditions (diabetes, depression, cardiopulmonary conditions, etc) may also have concurrent cognitive issues that could benefit from appropriate exercise prescription. Dual-task training has also demonstrated cognitive and/or functional benefits to several of these populations. Further training and continued education in working with any of the populations in question is strongly encouraged.