Practical Guide to Exercise Physiology Print CE Course

Course components are delivered as printed products:

• Practical Guide to Exercise Physiology text
• Study guide
• Continuing education exam

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you will be able to do the following:

• Discuss how the muscles, heart, lungs, and nervous system respond to exercise and various forms of training.
• Explain how food is converted into fuel and how oxygen enables the breakdown of food into fuel.
• Understand how fatigue limits the capacity for exercise.
• Identify the three energy systems that muscle cells rely on to produce the ATP needed for muscle contraction.
• Design appropriate exercise training programs tailored to improve muscle mass and strength, speed weight loss, enhance speed and power, and maximize aerobic endurance.
• Educate clients in withstanding the rigors of training in heat, cold, and altitude.
• Understand the design of training programs for children, older adults, and pregnant women.

Practical Guide to Exercise Physiology Print CE Course guides learners through the scientific concepts of exercise physiology with highly visual, easy-to-follow content. The course applies complex concepts of physiology to exercise program design, giving personal trainers, strength and conditioning specialists, and other health and fitness professionals an accessible resource to use with their clients. Written specifically for those in the fitness industry, the accompanying text covers various training goals and considerations when working with clients and athletes at all levels.

In conjunction with Practical Guide to Exercise Physiology by Bob Murray, PhD, FACSM, and W. Larry Kenney, PhD, this course takes an application-based approach to describing intricate physiological processes so that professionals can select and explain the appropriate exercises and physical activity regimens for clients. The accompanying text contains medical artwork that puts complex systems in a digestible visual format. Explanations of exercises and instructions on combining various exercises to achieve the desired results facilitate easy application to real-world practice.

Alongside the text and illustrations, the full-color content includes tools that apply concepts to everyday practice:

• Factoid boxes engage readers with additional facts about the human body and its response to training.
• Sidebars throughout the text pinpoint current topics of concern so that personal trainers and fitness professionals can prepare for and respond to these issues.
• An index of common questions from clients is an easy reference on client education.
• Sample training programs illustrate how the scientific concepts that guide program design are used in practice.

The study guide includes a course syllabus, learning objectives, learning activities, and referenced answer key. It emphasizes key concepts of the book to prepare individuals to pass the 50-question exam composed of multiple-choice and true-or-false questions at the completion of the course. Upon passing the exam, individuals may print out and submit a certificate for continuing education credits.

Practical Guide to Exercise Physiology Print CE Course contains all the necessary information for new and current personal trainers and fitness professionals. Learners will gain confidence in designing exercise programs for various populations and the ability to explain to clients how each exercise and movement will help them achieve their goals.

Bob Murray, PhD, FACSM, is the cofounder of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI) and served as director from 1985 to 2008. Murray oversaw a broad program of GSSI- and university-based research in exercise science and sport nutrition that set industry standards and consumer expectations for science-based product efficacy. He has been an invited speaker at professional meetings worldwide.

A native of Pittsburgh, Murray earned his BS and MEd degrees in physical education at Slippery Rock University. He was an assistant professor of physical education and head swimming coach at Oswego State University from 1974 to 1977 before earning his PhD in exercise physiology from Ohio State University. He then was assistant and associate professor of physical education at Boise State University from 1980 to 1985 before relocating to Chicago to cofound the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. An author of numerous publications in scientific texts and journals, Murray is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and an honorary member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

W. Larry Kenney, PhD, is the Marie Underhill Noll chair in human performance and a professor of physiology and kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University at University Park. He received his PhD in physiology from Penn State in 1983. Working at Noll Laboratory, Kenney is researching the effects of aging and disease states such as hypertension on the control of blood flow to human skin and has been continuously funded by NIH since 1983. He also studies the effects of heat, cold, and dehydration on various aspects of health, exercise, and athletic performance as well as the biophysics of heat exchange between humans and the environment. He is the author of more than 200 papers, books, book chapters, and other publications.

Kenney was president of the American College of Sports Medicine from 2003 to 2004. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and is active in the American Physiological Society. For his service to the university and his field, Kenney was awarded Penn State’s Faculty Scholar Medal, the Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Distinguished Research Career Award, and the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award. He was awarded the American College of Sports Medicine’s New Investigator Award in 1987 and the Citation Award in 2008.

Kenney has been a member of the editorial and advisory boards for several journals, including Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Current Sports Medicine Reports (inaugural board member), Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, Journal of Applied Physiology, Human Performance, Fitness Management, and ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal (inaugural board member). He is also an active grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and many other organizations. He and his wife, Patti, have three children, all of whom were Division I college athletes.