Athlete's Guide to Diabetes Online CE Exam, The

Online Course

This product is delivered online:

• Continuing education exam
• NOTE: The text The Athlete’s Guide to Diabetes 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 50 multiple-choice questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading The Athlete’s Guide to Diabetes. The exam will test your knowledge of the information presented in the book so you can help your clients achieve their athletic potential and pursue continuing education in the process.

Learning Objectives
After reading this book and successfully completing the 50-question multiple-choice exam, you will be able to do the following:

• Summarize the types of exercise training that adults with diabetes should engage in.
• Explain the importance of different types of physical activity to diabetes management.
• Describe the basics of energy systems and how exercise metabolism is altered by diabetes.
• List the types of medications prescribed to manage blood glucose and describe their impact on activity.
• Understand dietary practices related to exercise and alterations for people with diabetes.
• Recognize the emerging role of technologies in diabetes exercise management.
• Assess the safety and effectiveness of exercise by those with diabetes-related health complications.
• Predict the mind-set of an athlete with diabetes that will lead to success.
• List the most common athletic injuries and how to prevent or avoid them.
• Explain the changes to diabetes regimens (diet, insulin) that may be needed during physical activity.
• Summarize the usual practices of active individuals with diabetes who engage in a variety of fitness, endurance, power-endurance, power, and recreational sports activities.

Audience

A continuing education course for strength and conditioning coaches, personal trainers, athletic trainers, and other certified fitness professionals.

Author

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, FACSM, is an author, exercise physiologist, lecturer, consultant, and professor emerita of exercise science (Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia). In 2016, she was the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Educator in Diabetes award. A respected researcher and lecturer, she has authored more than 400 articles on exercise, diabetes, and health; 27 book chapters; and over a dozen books, including Diabetes-Free Kids, The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan, 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People With Diabetes, The Science of Staying Young, Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook, The Diabetes Breakthrough, and Diabetes & Keeping Fit for Dummies.

A distinguished graduate of Stanford University (BA), University of California at Davis (MA), and University of California at Berkeley (PhD), Colberg consults professionally for the American Diabetes Association (ADA), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) on numerous committees and projects. As a world-renowned expert and opinion leader, she has developed the exercise guidelines related to diabetes for most of these premier professional organizations, and she is interviewed frequently by various media outlets. In addition, she continues to be involved in consulting and in clinical research on exercise, diabetes, and healthy lifestyles.

With over 50 years of personal experience as an exerciser living with type 1 diabetes, Colberg continues to live a healthy, active lifestyle and serve as a role model for others who want to live long and well with (or without) diabetes. She enjoys working out regularly on conditioning machines, swimming, biking, fitness walking, weight training, and hiking with her husband and family in coastal California.