Welcome to the C.H.E.K Institute's
e-Learning Platform

We have teamed up with IDEA Health and Fitness Association to bring you a state-of-the-art e-Learning platform to host our popular correspondence course, video and audio products. Now you have immediate access to our comprehensive and acclaimed educational offering to grow your knowledge and enhance your skill set. No more waiting for the parcel to arrive in the mail before you can start learning and enjoying our products!

You can study when and where you want; you just need a computer / smart phone / iPad and internet access.

Your tests are graded immediately and you get a downloadable Certificate of Completion with professional development credits (PDCs, CECs and CEUs) when you pass the course.

Below are the current products available on the e-Learning Platform.

High-Performance Core Conditioning

High-Performance Core Conditioning

Scientific Core Conditioning: Subsection 4

With dozens of exercises to challenge even the most accomplished athlete, you will learn how to design core conditioning programs to increase speed and power. This course takes approximately 4-5 hours to complete, depending on how many times you practice the exercises shown in the course. Would you rather get the course manual already printed and bound?

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Core Conditioning Exercises

Core Conditioning Exercises

Scientific Core Conditioning: Subsection 3

This course features a multitude of functional and innovative exercises to keep you and your clients stimulated. Learn core conditioning exercises without equipment, as well as using Swiss balls, medicine balls, free weights and cables. This course takes approximately 3-5 hours to complete, depending on how many times you practice the exercises shown in the course. Would you rather get the course manual already printed and bound?

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Assessing Core Function

Assessing Core Function

Scientific Core Conditioning: Subsection 2

Learn how to perform a thorough assessment of core function in order to select the appropriate exercises for your clients. This course takes approximately 3-5 hours to complete, depending on how many times you practice the assessments shown in the course. Would you rather get the course manual already printed and bound?

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Functional Anatomy of the Core

Functional Anatomy of the Core

Scientific Core Conditioning: Subsection 1

Understand how the abdominal and back musculature interacts to stabilize and move the core and extremities. This course takes approximately 4-5 hours to complete, depending on how many times you review the videos. Would you rather get the course manual already printed and bound? Click here to order your ready-to-go copy from the C.H.E.K Institute, so you don't have to print hundreds of pages on your own printer!

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Scientific Core Conditioning

Scientific Core Conditioning

Scientific Core Conditioning is the most comprehensive, in-depth course available on this subject. Fully updated, with many new sections, assessment techniques and exercises, this course builds upon the framework of the hugely popular Scientific Abdominal Training. Expand your knowledge of the abdominal musculature and its biomechanical relationship to the entire kinetic chain, when applied to the prevention of back pain, maintenance of good posture and optimal sports performance.

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Program Design

Program Design

Choosing Reps, Sets, Loads, Tempo and Rest Periods

Exercise is like a drug; given in the right quantities at the right time, it can help a person. In the wrong quantities at the wrong time it can hurt the same person. A key skill for any fitness professional is being able to design individualized exercise programs that will lead to optimal performance for all types of clients; this online program is designed to teach you to do just that! You will learn how to combine and manipulate acute exercise variables; not just reps and sets, but also loads, tempo and rest periods.

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Primal Pattern® Movements

Primal Pattern® Movements

A Neurodevelopmental Approach to Conditioning

Today, despite the fact that we have more medical, sports and exercise technology and more doctors per capita than ever in history, we have more orthopedic injuries in almost every category recorded! It doesn't have to be that way. Paul Chek shares his unique approach to preventing orthopedic injury and improving performance through nutrition and optimal motor engram programming. This course takes approximately 3 hours to complete, depending on how many times you view the videos. Would you rather get the course manual already printed and bound?

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Advanced Swiss Ball Training for Rehabilitation

Advanced Swiss Ball Training for Rehabilitation

This course shows you how to apply the science of biomechanics and kinesiology to advanced assessments and functional training techniques using the Swiss ball for rehabilitation and injury prevention. You will learn how to identify postural problems and instabilities using Swiss ball assessments. After completing the course, you will be able to develop these assessments into corrective exercises, with appropriate modifications for the condition and training level of your client.

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