Building Strength and Muscle After 50 Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Building Strength and Muscle After 50 book
• Online continuing education exam

With Building Strength and Muscle After 50, experienced personal trainer Chad Landers will guide you through the physical, hormonal, and mental hurdles that trainees over age 50 encounter in their efforts to build and maintain muscle and definition.

Building Strength and Muscle After 50 describes the importance of recovery, the value of resistance training, and the most effective ways to reduce the risk of client injury while training. Landers discusses the big three age-related health issues—sarcopenia, metabolism, and osteoporosis—and will help you build effective and safe training plans that are accessible and approachable for any client. Whether your client is returning to resistance training after a break or has never picked up a weight before, you'll be prepared to assess them and implement appropriate programming that meets the client at their current fitness level and takes them toward their strength goals.

The book contains 76 exercises for the entire body:

• 20 chest and back exercises
• 26 shoulder, biceps, and triceps exercises
• 12 core exercises
• 18 hip, thigh, and calf exercises

Chad’s Take sections throughout offer ways to maximize results and vary or modify exercises as needed. Nine sample programs, ranging from two to four lifts per week, allow you to pick plans that fit each of your clients’ unique schedules and goals. This complete resource includes a chapter on nutrition guidelines to help your clients correctly fuel and get the results they're looking for.

Landers has trained dozens of clients in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s—proving that it’s never too late to claim or reclaim your strength at any stage of life!

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

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the health-related issues arising from a lack of muscle strength.
• Identify the strength-training fundamentals.
• Describe appropriate nutritional strategies for individuals over the age of 50.
• Implement appropriate assessment methods with individuals over the age of 50.
• Identify proper exercises to implement with individuals over the age of 50.
• Implement appropriate programming for various fitness levels.
• Incorporate warm-up movements and strategies for the purpose of injury prevention.
• Discuss proper cardiovascular programs and recovery strategies.
• Apply training principles to modify training programs and optimize training and safety.
• Identify training programs best suited for different client needs and fitness levels.

Audience

Certified fitness and strength and conditioning professionals working with clients over the age of 50.

Chapter 1. The 50-Plus Body
Chapter 2. Pillars of Strength Training
Chapter 3. Your Unique Nutritional Needs
Chapter 4. Assessments
Chapter 5. Warm-Up
Chapter 6. Chest and Back
Chapter 7. Shoulders, Biceps, and Triceps
Chapter 8. Core
Chapter 9. Lower Body
Chapter 10. Optimize Your Training
Chapter 11. Two-Days-a-Week Programs
Chapter 12. Three-Days-a-Week Programs
Chapter 13. Four-Days-a-Week Programs
Chapter 14. Cardio and Recovery

Chad Landers is a 1991 graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology. He has a graduate diploma in sports nutrition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and he was the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Personal Trainer of the Year in 2018.

Landers is in his 32nd year as a personal trainer in Los Angeles, California, and has owned and operated PUSH Private Fitness, a personal training–only gym, for over 20 years. He is known for his work with actors and musicians who need to look their best for the stage and screen. Current and former clients include William (Billy) Zabka, Duff McKagan, Sarah Hyland, Robbie Amell, Lyndsy Fonseca, and Corbin Bleu, among others.

In addition to competing in the sport of powerlifting, Landers enjoys writing and public speaking. He has been featured in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, People, AARP The Magazine, Onnit, Yahoo!, Personal Fitness Professional, and Personal Trainer Development Center and has been a guest on numerous podcasts.