Prescribing Movement as Medicine Online CE Exam With Ebook

This package includes the following:

• Prescribing Movement as Medicine ebook
• Online continuing education exam

Developing realistic, sustainable, and adaptable client workout programs can seem like an overwhelming task. Prescribing Movement as Medicine: The Professional’s Guide to Exercise for Health and Longevity serves as a manual explaining the why and how behind building an exercise program to improve health and longevity.

Offering practical and tested methods for helping clients exercise consistently and effectively, this is a great resource for anyone building client programs, especially for clients who are not already active and who need help in establishing exercise as a habit. Dozens of ready-to-use exercises, drills, and assessments are provided:

• 18 mobility and flexibility drills
• 37 warm-up drills
• 7 assessments
• 34 power training exercises
• 67 strength training exercises
• 2 sample programs

Exploring physical activity, health, and chronic disease, this ebook initially establishes the need for lifelong thoughtful movement. Then it breaks down the components of a training program that are necessary to maintain optimal function as clients age.

Case studies featuring the author’s clients give insight into how concepts in the book are applied in a real-world context. Readers will explore the importance of including a variety of movement types in programming, including everyday physical activity, mobility and flexibility, power training, strength training, and cardiovascular training. These come together to make this an actionable resource for trainers and coaches who share the goal of creating engaging and flexible training programs for clients.

Prescribing Movement as Medicine is designed to aid trainers and coaches in helping clients build healthy, sustainable exercise habits to last a lifetime.

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

Learning Objectives

• Discuss common roadblocks to achieving regular fitness participation and longevity.
• Describe the research regarding the health-building benefits of cardiovascular exercise and strength training.
• List the many benefits from incorporating regular physical activity into daily routines.
• Explain the differences between mobility training and flexibility training.
• Design an appropriate warm-up routine to maximize the workout.
• Summarize the common causes of the loss of power as one ages and the training concepts used to maintain power development.
• Identify common progressions and regressions for typical strength training exercises for the upper body, lower body, and core.
• Name various methods and protocols to maximize aerobic training.
• Understand what motivates a client to exercise and the key components of a beginning exercise program that establishes long-term behavior change.

Construct a comprehensive workout program that addresses all components of fitness.

Audience

Personal trainers, small group fitness coaches, and other health and fitness professionals who work with a general adult population.

Prescribing Movement as Medicine Table of Contents    
Foreword by Ben Bruno
Preface

Part I. The Path to Longevity
Chapter 1. Roadblocks to Longevity
Chapter 2. The World’s Strongest Medicine

Part II. Low-Impact Movement for Longevity
Chapter 3. Everyday Physical Activity
Chapter 4. Mobility and Flexibility
Chapter 5. The Warm-Up

Part III. Essential Exercises for Longevity
Chapter 6. Power Training
Chapter 7. Strength Training
Chapter 8. Cardiovascular Training

Part IV. The Longevity Prescription
Chapter 9. Laying the Groundwork
Chapter 10. Designing a Program for Health and Longevity

References
About the Author
 

Kevin Carr is a strength and conditioning coach and manager at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning (MBSC) as well as a massage therapist and cofounder of Movement as Medicine, a massage and movement therapy clinic in Woburn, Massachusetts. He is the creator of the Certified Functional Strength Coach certification. He has a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a license in massage therapy from Cortiva Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Carr amassed a wealth of experience in the field of sport performance and personal training while working at MBSC and has traveled all over the world to educate thousands of coaches and therapists about the MBSC coaching system. He has coached everyone from U.S. Olympians looking for a competitive edge to the average person looking to shed some pounds, move better, and improve their health.