Healthy Lifestyles & Principles (HLP) is very unique to the YMCA training system and therefore is the prerequisite for all Health & Well Being courses.  For those staff taking advantage of the Equivalency courses for Foundations of Group Exercise & Foundations of Strength & Conditioning, the new HLP must be taken before the equivalency will be accepted by the Y-USA and placed on transcripts.  Thus HLP + the equivalency = the Instructor Level of either Foundations of Group Exercise or Foundations of Strength & Conditioning.  Once this instructor level is achieved, staff will then be allowed to apply as a trainer candidate in either course as long as they meet all other trainer requirements set forth by Training & Leadership Development..  The Trainer level may not  be taken concurrently as the Instructor level regardless of using an equivalency.

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