
Meet a certified athletic trainer and strength and conditioning specialist who shares concepts to help you become a better personal trainer, excel in the fitness industry, and apply one-on-one training.
Explore bioenergetics, ATP production, and the three energy systems—ATP-PC, glycolytic, and aerobic. Link muscle fibers, fatigue, DOMS, hypertrophy, and recovery to tailor endurance and strength training.
Explore the mechanisms and adaptations to anaerobic training, including muscular, neural, connective tissue, bone, endocrine, and cardiovascular changes, highlighting hypertrophy, strength, power, and progressive overload.
Examine how age and sex shape resistance training safety, adaptations, and risks from children to older adults, highlighting puberty, female athlete triad, ACL risk, and osteoporosis prevention.
Explore safe resistance training with free weights and machines, covering hand grips, stable positioning, range of motion, breathing strategies, and spotting basics to protect athletes during lifts.
Learn how to use alternative modes and nontraditional implements, including bodyweight, bands, chains, and kettlebells, to enhance strength, core stability, and athletic performance.
Explore how aerobic endurance training drives cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations, boosting oxygen uptake, cardiac output, stroke volume, and muscle oxygen delivery while detailing diffusion, ventilation, and altitude effects.
Master cardiovascular training methods with hydration, warm-up and cool-down, proper footwear, safe technique on treadmills, rowers, ellipticals, bikes, and swimming, and match clients to activities.
The best way to achieve the client’s goals is throughout a weekly exercise that is planned upfront and carefully designed for each client. To receive the most of each exercise it is important to follow certain principles of training end exercise. This module “Training Methods and Principles” has purpose to closely explain the most common and most important principles used around the globe. All these principles should be followed to get the most from exercise programs and improve physical fitness and sports performance. These principles explained in this module are general fundamental principles of exercise science and apply to all athletes. Of course, you don't need to follow every one of them all the time. Many people want to get in better shape, improve sports performance, get better at a particular fitness discipline, or avoid stalling and back-slides. In that case, these fundamental rules are the hidden force behind the ability to change your fitness level, according to exercise science.
The objective of this module is to teach the future fitness professionals how to use and implement most important methods and principles of training. Each of the six most important principles will be explained in detail during this course. Using this principle with your clients will help them to get the most out of their trainings and to get them faster towards their initial goals. Goal of this module is also to teach students how to combine these principles in daily workout and planned the training in most efficient way but also to fully respect basic fitness and physical principles. When we talk about the most important principles we often speak about six of them and they are: Specificity Overload Progression Reversibility FITT Individual Differences