Author: Sameer Ahuja

Table of Contents Summary:

The annual ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal® worldwide survey to determine industry trends by health fitness professionals is now in its 13th consecutive year. Strength training (the #5 trend in 2018) was dropped from this year’s survey because it was determined to be too generic. In previous surveys, educated, certified, and experienced fitness professionals that was a top performing trend (#1 in 2008–2013 and in the top 10 in every survey) also was dropped from the survey because it was too broad and lacked the necessary specificity. Employing certified fitness professionals was added as a potential new trend for 2019 and was rated #6. Wearable technology regained the #1 trend after dropping to #3 in 2018. Group training (more than five participants) was rated #2, which is the spot it held in 2018. Last year’s #1 trend, high-intensity interval training, dropped to #3 for 2019. Regaining spots in the top 20 fitness trends include mobile exercise devices (#13), worksite health promotion and workplace well-being programs (#15), outcome measurements (#16), and postrehabilitation classes (#20). Dropping out of the top 20 fitness trends include circuit weight training, sport-specific training, and core training. Four international experts independently commented on the results.

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From this article, the reader should understand the following concepts:

Articulate the differences between a fad and a trend.Use the worldwide trends in the commercial, corporate, clinical (including medical fitness), and community health fitness industry to further promote physical activity.Study expert opinions about identified fitness trends for 2019.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand the basics of self-determination theory.

• Develop some ideas of how to create exercise contexts more likely to support self-determined motivation.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• To understand the concept of concurrent training and its components.

• To learn the effect of different sequences of concurrent training on cardiorespiratory and muscular adaptations.

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Improving one’s command of his or her own body can dramatically improve movement quality, quality of life, and performance and has become a foundation of training strategy for personal trainers worldwide. Bodyweight exercises allow clients to improve how they manipulate their own bodies through space in a way that is both important for health and difficult to replicate with other training methods that do not always accommodate a client’s unique anthropometry (1). Bodyweight training can be used to increase program adherence and convenience, improve movement quality, add diversity, decrease costs of exercise, or even to simply increase client enjoyment and satisfaction. This article will cover the What, Why, and How of implementing and prescribing bodyweight training for your clients with a view to offering both the trainer and the client extra tools in their training toolboxes!

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Bodyweight exercises should be incorporated into an exercise program to address performance gaps, improve movement quality, and maintain/accelerate progress.Incorporate bodyweight exercises continuously by rotating through the compound movements of a program and substituting them with a corresponding bodyweight version, orIncorporate bodyweight exercises periodically by building entire training days or blocks exclusively for bodyweight exercises.Bodyweight exercises can be programmed exactly the same as other traditional compound exercises.

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Bodyweight training helps teach the client to manipulate their own bodies in an organic and safe way. When we place our bodies on external resistance machines, it’s difficult to assess how much of that movement “belongs” (initiated and stabilized) to the client and how much to the machine or equipment.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVE

• To learn the most common barriers youth face that prevent them from being physically active and to learn strategies to help them overcome these barriers.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

To realize that age-related muscle loss is associated with bone loss, metabolic rate reduction, fat gain, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and various problems associated with physical degeneration/dysfunction.To recognize the beneficial effects of resistance exercise for increasing muscle mass, bone density, metabolic rate, insulin sensitivity, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, cognitive ability, and self-esteem, as well as for decreasing body fat, resting blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-back pain, arthritic discomfort, and depression.To use programs of resistance exercise that provide safe, progressive, and effective strength training experiences in accordance with the 2014 ACSM strength training recommendations.

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