• Design scientifically sound resistance training programs
• Modify and adapt programs to meet the needs of special populations
• Understand how exercise prescription design works in the real world

• Creating a Business Plan
• Business Structure
• Licensing and Insurance
• Marketing Channels
• Pricing and Scheduling
• Hiring Employees
• Managing your Business

3 NCSF CEUs | 6 CDR CPEs

This new DVD course moves fitness professionals through a series of self-assessments, which allows for identification of areas requiring improvement and establishes a baseline for a flexibility program. Additionally, the program will identify exercise techniques designed to avoid injury and optimize muscle function on the court, field, course, track, mat, or in the water.

3 NCSF CEUs | 6 CDR CPEs

Successful athletes must demonstrate good technique, proper conditioning, and a strong competitive spirit to execute winning performances. But one factor that decisively separates elite athletes from the rest of the pack is their ability to produce explosive, powerful efforts on demand. Generating the necessary power is only possible through an effective, multi-faceted power-training program designed to develop, enhance, and harness athletic power. Power for Sports Performance provides the tools to build a program for your needs, your sport, and your goals.

3 NCSF CEUs | 6 CDR CPEs

From football to tennis, track and field to volleyball, speed is a critical component of every athlete’s repertoire. Even recreational athletes often desire to increase speed. However, the proper way to design a safe and effective speed-training program is uncommon knowledge. Speed for Sports Performance will instruct fitness professionals in the proper way to assess and increase reaction time, technique, stride, mobility, and first-step explosiveness ultimately leading to increases in acceleration, maximum speed, and endurance. The different phases of the season within the calendar year are taken into consideration and exercises to decrease recovery time from/prevent injury are also explained.

Plyometrics is an essential part of strength and conditioning programs for the top athletes in nearly every sport. High-Powered Plyometrics provides the most systematic, comprehensive, and practical study of plyometrics available and can give you performance gains you never thought possible through 77 advanced exercises for explosive sports training.

High-Powered Plyometrics takes you step-by-step through high-level plyometric training, beginning with an understanding of the principles of how and why plyometrics works. It details proper training techniques and equipment, safety and injury prevention, and targeted training drills to develop your lower, middle, and upper body. You also get advanced tips to take you to the elite stages of training with discussions on periodization, long-term planning, and progression training. More than 360 textbook photo illustrations as well as supporting video instruction provide 77 exercises to increase lower-, middle-, and upper-body power. Exercise descriptions and intensity guidelines provide step-by-step instructions to ensure correct technique and proper workload.

Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. Traditional conditioning builds a fitness base, but modern sports training takes into account athletic movement patterns. The Athletic Body in Balance course is the first of its kind to show you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries.

The Athletic Body in Balance program focuses on exposing deficiencies in order to form a foundation for long-term training gains. The course teaches you to identify functional weaknesses; correct imbalances; explore your potential; and refine sport-specific movement skills such as jumping, kicking, cutting, and turning. You will see where conditioning is breaking down and how to get your body back on track.

Facilitated Stretching provides trainers with a useful approach to incorporating PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching into their clients training programs. The course uses a regional approach to presenting muscle group functions around specific joints. You will learn how to stretch each major muscle in the body, both individually and in groups. In addition, you will discover how to appropriately use group pattern stretches to improve flexibility and coordination and individual muscle stretches to relax tight muscles and break up adhesions within or between muscles. Instruction is provided for using the techniques on your own or with a partner and includes the following:

• A companion DVD that demonstrates live stretching techniques from the book for a clearer understanding
• New stretching routines for a variety of popular activities including running, golf, swimming, cycling, and throwing and racket sports
• General stretches and stretches for older participants
• Stretching activities with added strength work using stability balls and elastic bands
• Stretching and strengthening tips for managing and preventing common soft-tissue injuries

More than 350 photographs showing the progression of stretches enrich the book while the 60-minute DVD demonstrates the stretches and strengthening exercises in even more detail. Icons are featured throughout the text, indicating which exercises are demonstrated on the DVD. A unique binding also allows you to lay the book flat while performing the exercises without losing your place. The DVD serves as a great visual tool for improving your technique and getting the most out of your routines.

4.5 NCSF CEUs | 9 CDR CPEs

• Functional anatomy of the core musculature
• Core assessment and functional testing techniques
• Fundamentals of program design for core training
• Special considerations for core training for various sports and core-specific injuries and conditions

The Bosu Strength and Athletic Conditioning for Personal Trainers continuing education course provides you with the opportunity to learn movement skills, exercises and drills that will help develop high levels of functional strength and power, dynamic flexibility and balance, as well as agility. Using a Bosu and a variety of other equipment, this continuing education course shows you how to develop strength and improve overall functionality and athleticism in your clients.

The Strength Ball Training CEU course examines the use of training balls in the development of strength, power, coordination, balance, and core stability. The use of exercise balls allows individuals to train the body as a linked system rather than targeting muscles in isolation.

Resistance Training Instruction: Trunk is a continuing education course that focuses on strengthening and developing the trunk and core musculature. The core muscles, or what is oftentimes referred to as “the inner unit” work interdependently with the outer abdominal and oblique musculature to stabilize the spine and produce a variety of movements. The program demonstrates how to correctly perform and instruct numerous resistance and physioball exercises to strengthen the core muscles and trunk region.

Functional Testing in Human Performance offers professionals the first-ever compilation of information on clinical and data-based functional testing for sport, exercise, and occupational settings. This unique program serves as a primary resource for accurate assessment of individuals’ functional abilities in order to develop program prescriptions to enhance their performance.

The Functional Testing in Human Performance course defines the role of function in physical performance and how it can be appropriately tested. Especially helpful for personal trainers, the program explains testing criteria, testing terms relevant to research, and selecting the most appropriate test and testing sequence. Common testing mistakes are also presented as well as pitfalls to avoid when assessing. The course also includes case studies that illustrate a variety of situations—including testing for a client recovering from a lower-extremity injury, discussing preseason testing for a large group of athletes, and presenting the study of a client in an occupational setting. These cases include detailed statistical analysis and normative data, offering trainers the opportunity to consider the application of functional testing and implementation strategies adaptable to their specific practice setting.

The movements in competitive weightlifting – the snatch, clean, jerk, and other variations – can develop a more powerful athlete, no matter what the sport. The Explosive Lifting for Sports continuing education course shows how to incorporate these exercises into your own sports training program.

The course demonstrates the safest, most effective learning progressions for the snatch, clean, jerk, pulling assistance exercises, squat, and other key lifts. In-depth instructions for each lift allow you to safely master movement technique in a step-by-step fashion and develop the strength, power, and speed necessary for high level athletic performance. Included are specific power development programs for 10 different power sports: football, baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, hockey, track and field, wrestling, racket sports, and competitive weightlifting.

Olympic style lifting is an essential element in any sports performance program and mastery of these movements aid in developing whole-body power, which in turn allows for improvements on the field or on the court.

The Sport Nutrition continuing education course presents the principles, background, and rationale for current nutrition guidelines, specifically for athletes. Using a physiological basis, the program provides an in-depth look at the science behind sport nutrition. Personal Trainers will come away with a comprehensive understanding of nutrition as it relates to sport and the influence of nutrition on exercise performance, training, and recovery.

The course includes fuel sources for muscle and exercise metabolism, energy requirements for various sports, and a complete background in both the macronutrients (carbohydrate, fat, and protein) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). With more than 200 illustrations, highlight boxes, and tables and sidebars throughout the program, Trainers will be able to more easily grasp the scientific concepts presented in this course. Each lesson also includes learning objectives, key terms, and key points to help participants retain the information. The program presents not only nutrition principles but also the exercise biochemistry involved and the energy needs of athletes. Personal trainers will better understand how supplements may be used in an athlete’s diet, and they will learn how to separate fact from fallacy regarding the claims of the numerous nutritional supplements available today.

More than a simple prescription of recommendations, the NCSF Sport Nutrition course features a unique presentation that facilitates readers’ understanding of the science supporting the nutrition recommendations. As a result, Trainers will gain the knowledge and confidence to provide sound nutritional advice to athletic populations.