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Academy of Performance Coaching | Bournemouth University

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde

SportBU is proud to be an approved centre for a range of Active IQ Fitness Qualifications, designed to turn your passion for health and fitness into a long term career by developing competent fitness professionals. We work with Active IQ who are the UK’s leading awarding body for Fitness Qualifications.

All of our Academy of Performance Coaching (APC) courses are accredited by the CIMSPA and therefore, are nationally recognised among health and fitness employers.

What is the “Academy of Performance Coaching”?

Simon Hook, Centre Contact & Head of the APC programme, explains the Academy of Performance Coaching

We offer the Level 2 Fitness Instructor (Gym), Level 3 Personal Trainer and Level 3 & 4 Sports Massage Therapy courses. Our qualifications are delivered as either an intensive course or part-time (weekends). You are required to complete some of your theoretical study in your own time prior to starting the course

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Presbyterian Health Plan partners with New Mexico-based fitness company to offer members access to TruFit app

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde
TruFit, a New Mexico-based fitness company, has partnered with Presbyterian Health Plan to offer members access to its app aimed at adaptive athletes. (Lexi Boese/For TruFit)

Members of Presbyterian Health Plan who have intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities now have access to an app that allows them to receive customized fitness regimens, a move leadership at Presbyterian says allows them to address health care inequities in the state.

The health insurer, an arm of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, partnered with New Mexico-based TruFit to offer the app to enrollees with self-directed benefits, said PHP Chief Medical Officer Gray Clarke. Soon, the health insurer hopes to open access to the app for the larger Medicaid population enrolled in PHP.

“It came out of our acknowledgement of the need to address inequities in individuals with disabilities, and our recognition that individuals with disabilities have even higher rates of all chronic conditions than others

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