Ageless Intensity Online CE Exam

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• Continuing education exam
• NOTE: The text Ageless Intensity is required for successful completion of this exam but is not included in this version. Purchase this version only if you already own the text or ebook.

Consisting of 110 multiple-choice and true-false questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading Ageless Intensity. The exam will test your knowledge of the information presented in the book, so you can work with clients looking to keep active and strong with age.

Learning Objectives
After reading the book and successfully completing the 110-question exam, you will be able to do the following:

• Explain the health benefits of high-intensity exercise for older adults.
• Define the term successful aging.
• Describe how the benefits of strength training can help mitigate the effects of the aging process.
• Discuss how exercise programs can help individuals to achieve successful aging.
• Understand the importance of mobility training in improving stability and strengthening muscle tissue.
• Identify the hormones responsible for promoting muscle growth.
• Explain how strength and power exercises can enhance resiliency of the myofascial system.
• Design an exercise program to help clients maintain activity and energy levels.
• Describe how the benefits of high-intensity interval training can help support successful aging.
• Identify the recovery strategies that can support optimal fitness.

Audience

Personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and other certified fitness professionals who work with clients over 40.

Pete McCall is the owner and president of All About Fitness and host of the All About Fitness podcast. He is certified as a personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), and he holds a CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist) certification from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is the author of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple.

McCall is a sought-after resource for accurate, in-depth insight on how to get results from exercise. He is frequently quoted as a fitness expert in national publications such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Men's Fitness, Shape, and Self. McCall has more than a decade of experience educating personal trainers around the world, including teaching for both ACE and NASM. He is a master trainer for Core Health & Fitness (the parent company of Nautilus, StairMaster, Star Trac, and Schwinn), a content contributor for 24 Hour Fitness, and an adjunct faculty member in exercise science at both Mesa Community College and San Diego State University. He has delivered wellness education talks for the U.S. Navy (at Naval Air Station North Island), the White House, the World Bank, the International Association of Fire Fighters, and Reebok.

McCall earned his master's of science degree in exercise science and health promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania, and he holds the Fellow in Applied Functional Science credential from the Gray Institute.

McCall is a semiretired rugby player, playing front row forward (all three positions) for Santa Monica Rugby Club, Potomac Athletic Club, and the Boston Irish Wolfhounds, where he was a member of the 2007 men’s Division III national championship team. He enjoys mountain biking, obstacle course races, hiking, keeping up with his two children, and coaching youth rugby.