Rock Solid Resilience Online CE Exam With Ebook

This package includes the following:

• Rock Solid Resilience ebook
• Online continuing education exam

A practical guide on how to train for longevity, Rock Solid Resilience equips you with knowledge about how injuries happen and what can be done to prevent them before they interrupt training. Learn to determine whether an injury can heal with rest, if adjustments can be made to safely keep training, or if your clients should consult a medical professional.

An initial assessment will help you determine each client’s strengths and weaknesses so you can establish appropriate workloads and safe programming progressions. Overviews of basic movements—including squats, deadlifts, pushes, and pulls—are complemented with variations to provide many options to draw from when selecting exercises for a client:

• 6 variations on the squat with modification tips to protect the knees, back, and hips
• 10 variations on pressing and pulling movements that protect the shoulders, upper back, and chest
• 18 variations of core movements to help build strength while progressing to other exercises
• 34 warm-up, level-up, and accessory exercises that provide progressions and regressions to elevate training and avoid plateaus

Finally, learn how to design a personalized program that enables each client to work toward their goals at a challenging pace while prioritizing injury prevention. Three sample workouts are provided to use as is or as examples to modify for use in another program.

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

Learning Objectives

• Recognize what causes injuries and what helps to prevent them.
• Identify and implement mobility assessments to determine a client’s starting point.
• Discuss the muscle groups and coaching cues involved in a squat and a deadlift.
• Recognize proper form and technique for pressing and pulling movements.
• Identify and implement various core movements.
• Adjust the variables of volume and load to achieve a desired outcome.
• Effectively program accessory exercises to benefit the training program.
• Make adjustments during a training program when pain arises.
• Identify how to use autoregulation to continue progress over time without an injury.
• Create an effective and safe training program.

Audience

Certified fitness and strength and conditioning professionals using resistance training with their clients.

Exercise Finder

Part I. Prehab and Prevention
Chapter 1. Preventing Injuries: What We Know
Chapter 2. Athlete Assessment: Identifying Limitations in Mobility and Gross Patterns

Part II. Exercise Techniques and Execution
Chapter 3. Squat and Hinge Movements
Chapter 4. Pressing and Pulling Movements
Chapter 5. Core Movements

Part III. Programming Considerations
Chapter 6. Volume and Load
Chapter 7. Level-Up and Side Quest Accessory Approaches
Chapter 8. Training With Common Injuries
Chapter 9. Autoregulation
Chapter 10. Sample Programs

References

Dean Somerset is a personal trainer and certified exercise physiologist who specializes in postrehabilitation fitness. He has worked with clients recovering from joint replacements, sports injuries, spinal cord injuries, cancer, and cardiac surgery. He also trains healthy individuals—in person and virtually—to help them reach their strength, flexibility, and fitness goals. Somerset has developed and taught courses and seminars all around the world on the topics of postrehabilitation fitness, mobility, hip and shoulder health, client assessment, and core training. He has also written for and been featured in Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Bodybuilding.com, and T Nation. Somerset has presented on numerous occasions for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and canfitpro and is a contributor to Developing the Core, Second Edition, and NSCA’s Essentials of Personal Training, Third Edition.

Dan Pope, DPT, is a physical therapist and strength coach with over 20 years of experience in getting strength and fitness athletes out of pain and returning them to a high level of performance. He is also the owner of Fitness Pain Free, a continuing education company that has helped thousands of other coaches and clinicians learn how to do the same. He has also been blessed to be able to travel around the world, speaking on the topics of injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Pope is a big believer in practicing what he preaches; he has been a CrossFit regional qualifier, a strongman national champion, and a collegiate pole vaulter.