Lower Body Training Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Lower Body Training book
• Online continuing education exam

Lower Body Training is a comprehensive guide containing the most up-to-date, scientifically proven strategies for increasing lower body size, strength, and power in your clients and athletes. Jason Brown, a program design expert who has worked with CrossFit affiliates and strength and conditioning facilities around the world, shares his innovative programs for a variety of different training goals, ranging from increased lower body size and strength to improved athletic performance.

Lower Body Training offers dozens of options for developing all the muscles of the lower body. The exercises are organized by the movement patterns they target—quad dominant, hip dominant, isolation, and plyometric—and include variations based on the equipment available for your clients, without sacrificing results. You will also find recommendations for selecting a balance of exercises to maximize effectiveness and reduce lower back pain and other potential overuse or acute injuries.

The book includes programs using maximal, submaximal, and dynamic training methods. The programs—categorized by beginner, intermediate, or advanced—target specific goals such as hypertrophy, strength, or athletic performance. Plus, there are variations for making staple exercises even more effective.

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

Learning Objectives

• Describe the anatomy of lower body musculature.
• Explain the basic principles of lower body training.
• Create specific and realistic training goals.
• Balance the use of quad- and hip-dominant exercises in designing a lower body training program.
• Explain how to strengthen the posterior chain muscles.
• Maximize lower body training through isolation and plyometric exercises.
• Vary a training program based on strength, athletic, or hypertrophic goals.
• Recommend at-home equipment to optimize lower body training goals.
• Discuss how to achieve a balance between bilateral and unilateral training.

Audience

Personal trainers, strength and conditioning professionals, and other certified fitness professionals.

Part I. The Scientific Approach to Lower Body Training
Chapter 1. Meet the Muscles
Chapter 2. Create Better Balance Through Movement
Chapter 3. Go Beyond the Basics
Chapter 4. Set Realistic Training Goals

Part II. The Exercises
Chapter 5. Quad-Dominant Exercises
Chapter 6. Hip-Dominant Exercises
Chapter 7. Isolation Exercises
Chapter 8. Plyometric Exercises

Part III. The Programs
Chapter 9. Hypertrophy Programs
Chapter 10. Strength Programs
Chapter 11. Athletic Performance Programs
Chapter 12. At-Home Training Programs

Jason Brown has a master of science degree in exercise physiology and holds the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) credential. He is a Conjugate Method expert and is one of the few professionals certified as a Special Strength Coach under the legendary Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell. After owning his own CrossFit facility for six years, he started Jason Brown Coaching, an online programming business that provides programming to CrossFit affiliates and strength and conditioning facilities around the world. He holds CrossFit certifications in powerlifting, mobility, gymnastics, coaches’ prep, CrossFit Level 2, endurance, and Olympic lifting.

With more than 17 years of experience in the fitness industry, Brown specializes in providing programming to both individuals and facilities as well as education to strength and conditioning professionals. He presents for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and has published hundreds of articles with platforms such as EliteFTS, T Nation, DrJohnRusin.com, and ThibArmy (Christian Thibaudeau). Brown is also a combat veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and a father of three.