Barbara Foster is a dedicated, compassionate, knowledgeable health and fitness professional with over fifteen years experience providing quality care to clients presenting with diverse health and fitness conditions.
Barbara Foster provides a positive environment that supports the connection between client and trainer, and is best known for her proven ability to motivate clients to achieve their optimum performance levels and goals.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Business-like approach to management and operation of Personal Training
- Extensive individualization of program design and evaluation
- Program management and supervision
- Fitness/Nutrition Screening; Needs Analysis; Client Education
- Senior Citizens; Working with people with an intellectual disability
- Obesity; Pregnancy; Diabetes; Osteoporosis; Frozen Shoulder
- Collaboration with client’s doctor; Pre-surgical preparation; Post Operative Recovery
- Exercise management for person’s with cancer
- Back: Strengthening; Flexibility
- Aerobics; Muscle Toning
- Circuit Training; Aqua; Yoga; Pilates
- Olympic Weightlifting; Body Sculpture
- Gym Maintenance
- Administration- Accounting; Bookkeeping; Data Collection; Taxation; Advertising; and Computer Skills.
WORK HISTORY: Professional Experience
2002 – present Personal Trainer, Barbara Foster, Kuranda, FNQ
2008 – 2009 Yoga; Stretch and Flexibility program, Country Women’s Association
2007 – 2008 Health Across The Life Span, Circuit Program Design/Trainer
2003 – 2004 Beaches Health Studio, Personal Trainer,
1995 – 2002 Personal Trainer, Barbara Foster, Perth, Western Australia
Certificate IV Fitness (Queensland, 2011)
Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE, Cairns, Australia
- Develop work priorities
- Operate computer packages
- Instruct water-based fitness classes for low risk clients
- Instruct water-based fitness activities – moderate risk clients and those with specific fitness goal
- Plan and instruct circuit training class
- Undertake relevant exercise planning and programming
- Utilise a broad knowledge of exercise science in exercise planning programming and instruction
- Undertake postural appraisal of low risk clients
- Utilise a broad range of fitness equipment
- Provide exercise for fitness industry clients with special requirements
- Utilise an understanding of motivational psychology with fitness clients
- Provide information and exercise related to nutrition and body composition
- Plan and instruct a group exercise class
- Plan and deliver exercise for older clients
- Plan and deliver personal training
- Address client needs
- Coordinate client service activities
- Analyse participation patterns in specific markets of leisure and recreation industry
- Promote compliance with laws and legal principles
- Conduct projects
- Implement and monitor the organisation’s Occupational Health and Safety policies, procedures and programs
- Undertake risk analysis of activities
Certificate IV Health and Fitness (Western Australia, 2001)
WA School of Health and Community Services, Central TAFE, Perth
- Nutrition for Performance
- Performance Evaluation
- Advanced Resistance Training Techniques
- Resistance Training Programming
- Olympic Weightlifting Techniques
- Exercise Prescription (Non-Gym)
- Exercise Prescription-Population Groups
- Workplace Safety and Health-Gym
- Client and Customer Service
- Effective Working Relationships
- Personal Computer-Advanced Operations
- Workplace Practicum-Gym
- Functional Anatomy & Movement Analysis
Certificate III Health and Fitness (Western Australia, 1998-2001)
WA School of Health and Community Services, Central TAFE, Perth
- Communication Skills
- Recreation Law, Safety and Health
- Personal Computer – Fundamentals
- Nutrition Principles
- Exercise to Music Techniques
- Resistance Training Techniques
- Personal Computer-Application
- Aqua-Fitness Techniques
- Recreation Industry-Overview
- Recreation Law, Safety and Health
- Principles of Administration
- RPL and Study Skills
- Fitness Evaluation I
- Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
- Circuit Training Techniques
- Exercise-Community Populations
- Exercise-Special Populations
NEIS Business Skills Training Course (Western Australia, 1997)
New Enterprise Scheme, Department of State Development, Perth
- Business Planning
- Time Management
- Market Research
- Marketing
- Small Business Law/Taxation
- Financial Planning
- Operational Planning
- Record Keeping
Small Business Management and General Bookkeeping (W.A. 1995)
Perth Metropolitan College of TAFE
Department of Employment, Vocational Education and Training (W.A.)
Swedish Massage (Western Australia, 1992)
Australian College of Massage, Perth
Senior First Aid – Workplace L2 (current)
Australian Red Cross
Referees and / or References available upon request