Course components can be delivered as printed products or online:
- The text Designing Resistance Training Programs, Fourth Edition
- Study guide
- Continuing education exam
Objectives:- Understand the science of resistance training and how to apply it in designing effective training programs.
- Discuss general guidelines for any type of resistance training and the principles of exercise prescription.
- Develop resistance training programs for women, children, and senior populations.
- Develop individualized resistance training workouts to meet the needs of clients, athletes, and fitness participants.
Designing Resistance Training Programs, Fourth Edition CE Course provides insight into the principles of resistance training and exercise prescription and examines the various types of strength training. It covers resistance training from a physiological perspective and includes an overview of how resistance training programs interact with the other conditioning components such as aerobic, interval, and flexibility training. Advanced training techniques, manipulation of training variables in a long-term resistance training program, and ways to plan rest into long-term training without compromising fitness or performance are explored.
Based on a book by two of the world’s leading experts on strength training,
Designing Resistance Training Programs, Fourth Edition CE Course presents information on the process of designing scientifically based resistance training programs, modifying and adapting programs to meet the needs of special populations, and understanding how designing programs works in the real world. The study guide contains a course syllabus and end-of-chapter learning activities to prepare students for the continuing education exam at the conclusion of the course.
- Chapter 1. Basic Principles of Resistance Training and Exercise Prescription
- Basic Definitions
- Maximal Voluntary Muscle Actions Intensity
- Training Volume
- Rest Periods
- Velocity Specificity
- Muscle Action Specificity
- Muscle Group Specificity
- Energy Source Specificity
- Periodization
- Progressive Overload
- Safety Aspects
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Types of Strength Training
- Isometric Training
- Dynamic Constant External Resistance Training
- Variable Resistance Training
- Isokinetic Training
- Eccentric Training
- Considerations for All Types of Training
- Comparison of Training Types
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Physiological Adaptations to Resistance Training
- Physiological Adaptations
- Bioenergetics
- Skeletal Muscle Fibers
- Nervous System Adaptations
- Body Composition Changes
- Hormonal Systems in Resistance Exercise and Training
- Connective Tissue
- Cardiovascular Adaptations
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Integrating Other Fitness Components
- Compatibility of Exercise Programs
- Basics of Cardiorespiratory Training
- Stretching and Flexibility
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Developing the Individualized Resistance Training Workout
- Program Choices
- Needs Analysis
- Program Design
- Acute Program Variables
- Training Potential
- Setting Program Goals
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Resistance Training Systems and Techniques
- Single-Set Systems
- Express Circuits
- Multiple-Set Systems
- Exercise Order Systems
- Training Techniques Applicable to Other Systems
- Specialized Systems and Techniques
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Advanced Training Strategies
- Periodization of Resistance Training
- Comparative Studies
- Power Development
- Plyometrics
- Two Training Sessions in One Day
- Summary
- Chapter 8. Detraining
- Types of Detraining
- Physiological Mechanisms of Strength Loss
- Effects of Muscle Action Type
- Detraining Effects on Bone
- Detraining the Bulked-Up Athlete
- Summary
- Chapter 9. Women and Resistance Training
- Physiological and Performance Differences Between Sexes
- Training in Women
- Women’s Hormonal Responses to Resistance Training
- Menstrual Cycle
- Bone Density
- Knee Injuries
- General Needs Analysis
- Summary
- Chapter 10. Children and Resistance Training
- Training Adaptations
- Injury Concerns
- Program Considerations
- Program Progression
- Sample Sessions
- Equipment Modifications and Organizational Difficulties
- Program Philosophy
- Summary
- Chapter 11. Resistance Training for Seniors
- Hormonal Changes With Age and Resistance Training
- Body Composition Changes in Seniors
- Changes in Physical Performance With Age
- Resistance Training Adaptations in Seniors
- Developing a Resistance Training Program for Seniors
- Summary
A continuing education course for strength and conditioning
professionals and coaches, athletic trainers, personal trainers, and
health and fitness professionals.
Steven J. Fleck, PhD, is an associate professor in health,
exercise science, and sport management at the University of Wisconsin at
Parkside. He earned a PhD in exercise physiology from Ohio State
University in 1978. He has headed the physical conditioning program of
the U.S. Olympic Committee; served as strength coach for the German
Volleyball Association; and coached high school track, basketball, and
football. Fleck is a former vice president of basic and applied research
and the current president of the National Strength and Conditioning
Association (NSCA). He is a fellow of the American College of Sports
Medicine (ACSM) and the NSCA. He was honored in 1991 as the NSCA Sport
Scientist of the Year and received that organization’s Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2005.
William J. Kraemer, PhD, is a professor in the department of
kinesiology in the Neag School of Education at the University of
Connecticut. He holds joint appointments as a professor in the
department of physiology and neurobiology and as a professor of medicine
at the UConn Health School of Medicine Center on Aging.
He earned a PhD in physiology from the University of Wyoming in 1984.
Kraemer held the John and Janice Fisher Endowed Chair in Exercise
Physiology and was director of the Human Performance Laboratory and a
professor at Ball State University from 1998 until June 2001. He also
was a professor at the Indiana School of Medicine. At Pennsylvania State
University, he was professor of applied physiology, director of research
in the Center for Sports Medicine, associate director of the Center for
Cell Research, and faculty member in the kinesiology department and the
Noll Physiological Research Center. He is a fellow of the ACSM and past
president of the NSCA. Kraemer has been honored by the NSCA with both
their Outstanding Sport Scientist Award and Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2006 the NSCA’s Outstanding Sport Scientist Award was named in his
honor. He is editor in chief of the Journal of Strength and
Conditioning Research.
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