Category: Fitness

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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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• To provide health and fitness professionals with an understanding of the beneficial effects that regular physical activity and fitness have on metabolic syndrome.

• To provide safe, effective guidelines for the health and fitness professionals charged with developing exercise prescriptions for those diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.

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Tell the difference between a fad and a trend.Apply and use worldwide trends in the commercial, corporate, clinical (including medical fitness), and community health fitness industry.Read expert opinions about identified fitness trends for 2018.

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Learning Objectives

Develop an understanding of the impacts of high-intensity interval training on physiological and psychological responses.• Develop a strategy for prescribing and using high-intensity interval training in varied client, member, and patient populations.

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