Elite Physique Online CE Exam With Ebook

This package includes the following:

• Elite Physique ebook
• Online continuing education exam

Elite Physique offers a fresh approach to body sculpting. Based on scientifically proven strategies for making workouts more effective, Elite Physique features over 100 exercises and 50 exercise videos for men seeking training programs designed to build muscle, burn fat, or target those problem areas that are slower to respond to training.

Written by Dr. Chad Waterbury, a physical therapist who understands how bodies change with age, Elite Physique shows you how to help your clients make radical physical changes by manipulating sets, reps, and frequency and by deciding when and how to use advanced training methods.

You’ll first learn how to conduct a physical assessment to establish a starting point and more accurately gauge progress. As you move into exercises for the lower body and upper body, you’ll find tips on altering exercises to alleviate stress on primary joints like the shoulders, elbows, wrists, lower back, hips, and knees. Video clips offer demonstrations of many of the exercises, highlighting proper technique and common mistakes. You’ll learn the finer points of sculpting the midsection and will be able to create programs to target a lagging body part, either as an add-on to full-body training or as a stand-alone high-frequency training plan.

Waterbury also includes advice on how to make staple lifts such as squats, deadlifts, and presses more joint friendly for older, more physically battered lifters. He breaks down how training must change with age—with a program for a 20-year-old client looking different than one for a 50-year-old client—to enable every client to safely pursue the goal of a lean, muscular physique regardless of age.

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

Learning Objectives

• List the various self-assessments for posture, strength, and endurance.
• Apply realistic goal setting and motivational strategies with clients.
• Explain the importance of proper movement progressions.
• Identify the similarities and differences between muscle-building and fat-burning programs.
• Create a training program with the appropriate sets, reps, and exercise selection based on individual goals.
• Design a training program that applies principles of muscle and strength development.
• Discuss ways to increase the size and strength of the lower body muscles through exercise progressions.
• Explain how to increase the size and strength of the upper body muscles through exercise progressions.
• Identify exercises that strengthen the core muscles.
• Describe the principles for targeting underdeveloped muscle groups using high frequency training.
• Discuss the importance of proper nutrition as it pertains to recovery, muscle growth, and fat loss.
• Explain the aging process as it relates to recovery, joint problems, and muscle loss.

Audience

Personal trainers, strength and conditioning professionals, and other certified fitness professionals working with men who want to build muscle and transform their physique.

Part I. Plan for Muscle
Chapter 1. Assess to Impress
Chapter 2. Man With a Plan
Chapter 3. Muscle Rules

Part II. Muscle Methodology
Chapter 4. Building Muscle Versus Burning Fat
Chapter 5. Lower Body Training
Chapter 6. Core Training
Chapter 7. Upper Body Training

Part III. Muscle Programming
Chapter 8. Muscle-Building Programs
Chapter 9. Fat-Burning Programs
Chapter 10. Body Part–Specific Programs

Part IV. Muscle Maintenance
Chapter 11. Nutrition for Muscle Growth or Fat Loss
Chapter 12. Strong and Lean for Life

Chad Waterbury, PT, DPT, MS, graduated from the nation’s top ranked doctor of physical therapy (DPT) program at the University of Southern California (USC), where he currently teaches the course Resistance Training Techniques for High-Performance Athletes for the master’s degree in sports science program. He is the owner of Chad Waterbury LLC and author of Huge in a Hurry from Rodale Publishing. Waterbury has lectured for fitness organizations such as the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and Perform Better. He has a master’s degree in physiology from the University of Arizona, where his focus on the neurophysiology of human movement and performance led him to make radical changes in the way he trains competitive athletes as well as nonathletic clients. His workouts are now shorter and faster, producing superior results in strength, power, and muscular development, while at the same time inducing less fatigue and allowing for shorter recovery periods between workouts.