Functional Fitness for Pregnancy and Post Partum is the complete pre and post natal training package for fitness professionals working with women throughout their pregnancies, return to exercise and motherhood journeys. This course is perfect for the trainer or Coach specialising in functional fitness, strength and conditioning, hybrid and CrossFit style, small group and 1-1 training modalities!
With plenty of practical application, programming and real life case studies, this is not your average pre & post natal course.
Become a certified pre and post natal trainer with this internationally approved course and earn CECs with AUSactive, ACE – American Council on Exercise and NZ Reps.
Insights
- Learn from Brooke, leading Women’s Health & Fitness Expert and Educator. She was awarded the title of 2022 AusActive Educator of the year!
Brooke has been educating and empowering women, and fitness professionals working with women on nutrition and exercise throughout pregnancy and motherhood.
- 1.3 ACE CEC’s
- Course date:
29 & 30 April 2025 (Tue-Wed)
9am to 5pm
- Course Fee:
Early Bird: S$800 (ends on 16 March 2025)
Regular: S$870
- Eligible for SkillsFuture and UTAP claims
For more information, please refer to our FAQ here.
Functional Fitness for Pregnancy and Post Partum course will educate and empower you to help your clients feel safe, supported, and empowered to continue a suitable and specific for pregnancy and the post natal training, in a way that they enjoy the training and you enjoy coaching them. You will gain the clarity and confidence that you need, and that your clients seek on safe, effective and enjoyable exercise during the pre and post natal periods. Walk away with the tools and knowledge you need to safely and effectively screen, program, modify, support, and empower your clients during pregnancy and motherhood to optimise both their mental and physical wellbeing.
Functional Fitness for Pregnancy and Post Partum course comprises of two main parts: PREGNANCY and POST PARTUM. Through this course, you will learn the safe, specific and suitable exercise during pregnancy for all stages and consideration, and helping your client beat the pre-baby body rush and return to exercise safely.
Together, we can educate and empower women EVERYWHERE to have a healthy, active pregnancy and beyond! Here’s to having more amazing Fitness Professionals out there helping to provide clarity and confidence to their pre and post natal clients!
Course Objectives
- Understand the goal as a trainer of pre and post natal women, identify the benefits of exercise during these periods and considerations for exercise at each stage of pregnancy and postpartum recovery.
- Demonstrate sound understanding of the mechanics behind diastasis recti, how pregnancy and post partum impacts the pelvic floor and key considerations for these. Ability to understand a clients birth story, assess and screen (within scope) pelvic floor and abdominal health, risk factors and assist in identifying signs and symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic organ prolapse and diastasis recti.
- Identify the key questions that need to be asked of pregnant and post partum clients (regardless of child/ren age) gaining the knowledge to assess, design, demonstrate and implement safe, effective & appropriate resistance and cardio based training sessions for pregnant and postpartum women.
- Identify and implement other key factors in successful coaching of women throughout pregnancy and motherhood; mindset, nutrition and sleep. Adapt and develop holistic programming to suit, support, and empower clients during pregnancy and motherhood, to maximise both their mental and physical wellbeing.
This course includes
- Comprehensive 2 full day workshop
- Student manual
- Digital Badge
- Exposure via the Find A Trainer online resource
- ACE CECs
- Access to support group
Educator
BROOKE TURNER
Brooke Turner is the founder of Balance Fitness and Nutrition, with over 15 years in the health and fitness industry. Brooke is also an international health and fitness speaker and published writer, educator, a qualified nutritionist, exercise and sports scientist, personal trainer and group fitness instructor; the winner of 2022 Australian Fitness Educator of the year. Additionally, she is also a mother of three.
Brooke specializes in pre & post natal exercise and nutrition, and has trained over 300 women in various stages of conception, pregnancy and post partum journeys; both online and face to face, from single, twin and high risk quad pregnancies. Adding on to her experiences, Brooke has also experienced first hand the physical and emotional challenges that come with the pre and postnatal periods and motherhood in general, being part of her motivation to create this course.
She strongly believe that women CAN still train with intensity during pregnancy and post partum. They CAN still train in a way that they enjoy, and that you as Fitness Professionals CAN still coach in a way that you love. It is all relative and simply needs to be ADAPTED to be safe, suitable, and specific, offering appropriate alternatives always.
What our graduates say about the course
I had 0 knowledge when I came in, and have more knowledge when I walk out of this course. Definitely feel more confident in teaching and handling clients who are in their pre n post party journey.
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Thank you for creating such an insightful and meaningful course, and you were so open, passionate and generous in sharing your knowledge and personal experience as a mum of 3 beautiful kids, which really made your teaching content very relatable and genuine! One of my greatest takeaways from Brooke is on the importance of pelvic floor strengthening using the jellyfish analogy/cue, which I am excited to share and guide my female warriors through in our sessions, especially the mummies! After these two full days course by Brooke, I felt more empowered and confident to coach women, especially mums and mums-to-be! I was really very excited and honoured to have the chance to meet Brooke in person over the last weekend after following her on IG for a year. I have been receiving good tips from her online content to conduct personal training session for my very first pregnant client and have been wanting to take her online module but somehow I couldn’t due to clashes with my work schedule. So when I learnt that FIT Asia had invited her to conduct an in person session over the weekend, I signed up for her course right away! It was indeed a weekend very well spent with Brooke and my new batch mates!
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Spent last weekend being a student sitting in class, taking notes and brain-storming ideas in small groups. I love #studentlife 🤣 Been wanting to join Brooke in her class many times over the last two years but the stars were always not aligned. Glad to have caught her last weekend in Singapore! I’ve attended many women’s health and fitness courses and taught some. Brooke’s course is very well structured in her curriculum, and covers the key important aspects that all trainers need to learn and understand before working with any pregnant or postnatal mums. Most importantly, I appreciate that she shared some realistic ideals and experiences which are aligned with my own thoughts. 🥰 “Once a woman is postpartum, she is forever postpartum”
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It gives me more confidence and knowledge about how the female body changes through and after pregnancy. I now have the basic knowledge to modify and come up with exercises to suit female clients of different stages.
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Brooke was very willing to share and educate us, especially non experience moms
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I enjoyed the course and believe this has equipped me with relevant knowledge and confidence to train pregnant and post partum mummies. Case studies were helpful in understanding what other mums may experience and how as professional help them get back to exercise.
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Brooke give us an excellent enrichment course on pregnancy and postpartum fitness. I love it.
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Comparing this course to the one I took previously, I had received more insights, more guidance which allows me to understand even better when comes to training preg & postpartum women, how their body reacting at every trimester. Very useful!
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