Bodyweight Blueprint Online CE Exam With Ebook, The

This package includes the following:

• The Bodyweight Blueprint ebook
• Online continuing education exam

The Bodyweight Blueprint is your guide to building the ideal bodyweight workouts to help your clients achieve their goals, regardless of age, fitness level, or experience. With no equipment necessary, this unique programming guide offers 86 versatile exercises and 39 stretches that can be done anywhere.

Certified personal trainer Brad Kolowich Jr., whose client list includes Tyler Perry, Alicia Silverstone, and Luke Evans, is on a mission to show people the power of bodyweight exercises. In The Bodyweight Blueprint he includes over 70 simple and effective workouts that can be done with little or no equipment, including these:

• Strength workouts that target every major muscle group and develop a solid functional foundation that translates into daily activities
• Endurance workouts designed to push limits and increase stamina
• Mobility and flexibility workouts to help improve range of motion and maintain joint health
• Performance workouts to build athleticism and challenge speed, agility, and power

Organized by body part, this user-friendly guide makes creating workouts easy. Whether you’re targeting a specific muscle group or developing full-body workouts, this ebook will guide you through intensification methods, tempo, and protocols. Kolowich offers the tools to build unique workout programs and includes techniques that can be added to nearly any exercise to progress its difficulty.

With tips for proper form, clear instructions, and variations, you’ll have everything you need to tailor workouts to client goals and abilities. Making fitness safe and approachable, The Bodyweight Blueprint will help build a stronger, more resilient body, regardless of where workouts are done.

After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the ways bodyweight training will improve muscular coordination and endurance.
• List the bodily systems involved in body control and balance.
• Explain the concept of progressive overload in regard to fitness programs.
• Demonstrate awareness of muscle responses for developing power, strength, and endurance.
• Describe the differences between various interval training methods and explain the benefits of each.
• Differentiate among set styles.
• Manipulate program levels through the use of recovery times, exercise order, and repetition ranges.
• Evaluate client fitness levels and adapt programs accordingly.
• Explain advanced modifications of bodyweight movements.
• Describe the role of equipment, such as suspension straps and stability balls, in ensuring client goal progression.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning professionals, personal trainers, or other related professionals looking to incorporate bodyweight workouts into client training.

Part I. Essentials of Bodyweight Training
Chapter 1. Bodyweight Basics
Chapter 2. Constructing Bodyweight Workouts
Chapter 3. Progressing Bodyweight Workouts

Part II. Exercises
Chapter 4. Upper-Body Exercises
Chapter 5. Lower-Body Exercises
Chapter 6. Total-Body Exercises
Chapter 7. Core Exercises

Part III. Workouts
Chapter 8. Strength Workouts
Chapter 9. Performance Workouts
Chapter 10. Endurance Workouts
Chapter 11. Mobility and Flexibility Workouts

Brad Kolowich Jr., ACE-CPT, ACE-FNS, is an Atlanta-based certified personal trainer, founder of KoloFit Personal Training Studio, and coauthor of Fitter Faster: The Smart Way to Get in Shape in Just Minutes a Day. He is recognized for his work with business professionals, world-class athletes, fitness competitors, TV personalities, and some of Hollywood’s most notable celebrities. He is highly sought after worldwide by actors, actresses, and production companies for his ability to quickly prepare talent for the physical and aesthetic requirements of movies and television series. His work with actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been featured in Men’s Health (Aquaman/Aquaman 2) and Men’s Journal (Watchmen). Other notable clients include Tyler Perry, Alicia Silverstone, Luke Evans, Rose Byrne, and Cody and Brandi Rhodes.

Kolowich was recognized as one of the Best of Atlanta Personal Trainers by the Atlanta Award Program in 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2022. In 2022, he was named one of the 10 Most Inspiring Business Leaders to Watch in 2022 by Tycoon Success business magazine.

KoloFit Personal Training Studio was selected as the Best Personal Training Studio in Atlanta in 2020 by GHP News, 2021 Fitness Studio of the Year by Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards, 2021 Best 1-to-1 Personal Fitness Studio in the United States by Acquisition International Business Excellence Awards, and the 2021 Best Fitness & Nutrition Facility by the North America Business Elite Awards.

Kolowich is a regular guest on national television programs, including on the Weather Channel as well as CNN’s HLN, CBS Atlanta’s Better Mornings, and FOX Atlanta′s Good Day Atlanta.