Heart Rate Training 2nd Edition Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, book
• Online continuing education exam

With a myriad of affordable smartphone apps and wearable devices enabling you to track the body’s response to activity, it’s never been easier to use heart rate monitoring to customize your clients' training—and Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, will show you how!

Authors Roy Benson and Declan Connolly combine decades of coaching experience, scientific research, and practical knowledge to help you understand the best way to utilize heart rate monitors with your clients. They will show you how to get reliable data from a device, dispel myths surrounding heart rate monitors, and make it easy for you to calculate ideal target heart rates. Then you’ll learn how to customize training by varying the intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of exercise sessions to work toward improving endurance, stamina, economy, and speed.

Information on heart rate variability (HRV) training further prepares you to individualize training plans based on each clients’ personal goals. As a bonus, sample exercise programs will guide you in manipulating training components to design long-term training plans for walking, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, rowing, cross-country skiing, and team sports.

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

Learning Objectives

• Identify and explain the four principles of physical fitness.
• Analyze changes in heart rate status in order to manipulate athlete training.
• Use maximal heart rate to calculate training zones for optimal performance.
• Describe heart rate and oxygen consumption in relation to the principles of physical fitness.
• Evaluate energy systems and their impact on heart rate training.
• Describe ways to manipulate aerobic and anaerobic fitness parameters for the purpose of performance enhancement.
• List the benefits of heart rate monitoring for team sports.

Audience

Certified fitness instructors, personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and athletic trainers.

Part I. Foundations
Chapter 1. Monitoring for Maximum Performance
Chapter 2. Evaluating and Customizing Your Zones
Chapter 3. Getting the Most From Your Monitor

Part II. Training
Chapter 4. Targeting Sport-Specific Fitness With Heart Rate
Chapter 5. Increasing Aerobic Endurance
Chapter 6. Raising Anaerobic Threshold
Chapter 7. Boosting Speed and Power

Part III. Programs
Chapter 8. Designing an Effective Training Program
Chapter 9. Walking
Chapter 10. Jogging and Running
Chapter 11. Cycling
Chapter 12. Swimming
Chapter 13. Triathlon
Chapter 14. Rowing
Chapter 15. Cross-Country Skiing
Chapter 16. Team Sports

Appendix: Heart Rate Training Zone Calculation Chart

Roy T. Benson, MPE, CFI, is an exercise scientist and distance-running coach. He ran competitively for 58 years and coached professionally for 56 years for military, club, university, and high school teams, including 10 years at the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2008, his boys’ and girls’ cross country teams at Marist High School in Atlanta, Georgia, won a total of 16 state championships, and his cross country and track runners won 21 individual state titles.

Benson was the owner and president of Running Ltd., a company that operated Nike-sponsored summer camps for both adult and high school runners since 1973. He sold the camps to US Sports Camps when he retired in 2014.

Benson has used his expertise in heart rate training as a consultant for both Polar and Nike, and he has written three books about effort-based training for runners. For over 25 years he was a special contributor to Running Times magazine and was a contributing editor for Running Journal magazine. His booklet Precision Running, published by Polar Electro, has sold over 200,000 copies and has been translated into seven languages.

Benson and his wife, Betty, live on Amelia Island, Florida, where he is a volunteer cross country coach at Fernandina Beach High School.

Dr. Declan Connolly, FACSM, CSCS, is a professor and exercise physiologist at the University of Vermont, where he is also director of the Human Performance Laboratory. He is a consultant for numerous sports organizations, including the World Rugby Union Network, National Hockey League, National Football League, U.S. Rowing, and U.S. Skiing. He has also served as a consultant to the International Olympic Committee on several occasions.

In addition to more than 300 publications in scientific journals, his work is widely quoted in the popular media, including stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, London Times, Runner’s World, Prevention, Health, and Self. His work appears on more than 24,000 websites and has been the subject of news stories on Fox, BBC, CBS, and numerous other TV and radio networks.

Connolly is a lifelong exerciser and athlete, boasting several national cycling championships as a schoolboy in his native Ireland. More recently, he has turned his focus to triathlons and Ironman competitions. Connolly lives in Burlington, Vermont, with his wife and five children.