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Today's Youth...Tomorrow's Athlete

Today's Youth...Tomorrow's Athlete

by Bill Parisi and Ingrid Owen

Engage and serve the growing youth market! Whether you are a personal trainer, club owner or personal training manager, you will acquire important takeaways that you can implement into your business immediately. Learn how to build your youth membership and client base by attacking the obesity and injury epidemic facing America’s children.

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Foundations of Kinesiology for the Fitness and Exercise Specialist

Foundations of Kinesiology for the Fitness and Exercise Specialist

Ever wonder about the mechanical principles that regulate human movement? How to analyze movement (resistance training exercises) for efficiency or how to create the most efficient movements possible to increase structural integrity? Expand your knowledge in this home study course that presents the foundations of kinesiology. Obtain the ability to perform a structured approach to analyze human movements called; General Motion Assessment Strategy.

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Turbo Tabata

Turbo Tabata

by Greg Sellar

It’s the simplest thing you could do to create a high-energy, male-friendly group exercise experience. Take simple-to-learn athletic body weight exercises, repeat them in high-intensity interval training bursts, balance out the exercises between upper body, lower body and core, and get into a serious fat-burning zone.

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Balancing Hormones for Optimal Weight Loss

Balancing Hormones for Optimal Weight Loss

by Marc Bubbs ND

You often hear that achieving your ideal weight is a matter of calories consumed and exercise. Unfortunately, that isn’t the whole story. Your body’s hormones control metabolism, muscle building, fat metabolism and appetite. Whether you are a very active athlete, exercise enthusiast or are seeking to shed a few pounds, achieving hormonal balance may be the missing link you need to lose weight, improve your health and perform better in the gym or on the playing field!

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Diabetes and Exercise

Diabetes and Exercise

by Roberta Anding, MS, RD

Diabetes is a complex endocrine disorder that affects the body's ability to regulate glucose, and insulin secretion and utilization. Loss of normal insulin physiology results in changes in how fuel is used in the body, and how storage and hydration occurs. Many clients with diabetes have macro- or micro-vascular complications from their disease, which alters their ability to fuel appropriately, maintain hydration status and train. This course will review type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the metabolic complications that are associated with this disorder.

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Where Do I Start? The Trainer's Guide to Exercise Prescription Course

Where Do I Start? The Trainer's Guide to Exercise Prescription Course

by Peter Chiasson

If you are a new trainer, or simply need a refresher course on assigning the right exercises to your clients, this is the course for you. We'll discuss injury prevention through orthopedic assessment by looking at what bones are made of and how they are formed. Learn what gets in the way of motion and how we tend to compensate for limitations in motion. More importantly, we'll examine why the maintenance of muscular availability around a joint is imperative for optimal joint function.

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Functional Exercise: From Bias to Continuum Course

Functional Exercise: From Bias to Continuum Course

by Tom Purvis, PT

So, if a functional exercise mimics daily activities, where does standing on the latest inflatable gimmick fit in? Is it just about making an exercise randomly more difficult? How truly functional is a functional exercise if it leads to musculoskeletal dysfunction? In our zeal to create interesting programs for our clients, we may have dismissed perfectly sound exercises that improve musculoskeletal function, and imposed challenges that our clients are unable to accommodate safely.

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The Runner’s Clinic

The Runner’s Clinic

by Jason Karp, PhD

If your clients want to be better runners, they need to start by running and training better. This course teaches you how to run better through the use of running form drills and offers a special insider's view to the best lessons and workouts for runners, including lactate threshold runs, VO2max intervals and anaerobic capacity intervals. Explore the scientific and coaching view of the training process and leave with a new knowledge of running!

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