Online Course
This product is delivered online:
- Continuing education exam
- NOTE: The text Running Anatomy, Second Edition, 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 25 multiple-choice questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading the
Running Anatomy, Second Edition, book. The exam will test your knowledge of the techniques presented in the book so you can apply the concepts to your clients and pursue continuing education in the process.
Learning Objectives
After reading this book and successfully completing the 25-question multiple-choice exam, you will be able to do the following:
- Describe physiological adaptations to training for running.
- Analyze the biomechanics of running.
- Understand how environmental factors affect running training.
- Explain appropriate remedies for common running injuries.
- Determine effective strengthening exercises for runners.
- Describe the importance of alternative forms of training for runners.
Audience
A continuing education course for personal trainers and other certified
fitness and strength and conditioning professionals working with runners.
About the Author
Joe Puleo has been coaching distance running and track and field
for 28 years. He has been the head coach for men’s and women’s cross
country and track and field at Rutgers University at Camden, where he
produced 10 Division III All-Americans, including two individual
national champions. Simultaneously, he spent a decade coaching the
USMC’s All-Marine running program, where he coached three CISM World
Championship teams for the United States Armed Forces (marathon and
cross country).
Mr. Puleo is the coauthor of the articles “Anteriorly Rotated Pelvis:
The Negative Effects for a Distance Runner” and “Anatomy of Running
Footwear,” which appeared in Techniques magazine. He is a
frequent contributor to articles that have appeared in Runner’s World
and other fitness publications. His first album of songs, A Life I
Knew, written for the band Bannister Effect, is scheduled for
release in the fall of 2018. His debut novel will be published in the
spring 2019.
Mr. Puleo lives in Spring City, Pennsylvania, with his family and two
German shepherds.
Patrick Milroy has been the chief medical officer for the Road
Runners Club in Great Britain since 1998. From 1991 to 2007, he was a
medical advisor and contributor to Runner’s World, and for
10 years before he was similarly involved with its precursors, Jogging
magazine and Running magazine.
Dr. Milroy received the award of fellow from the Institute of Sports
Medicine in 1999 and from the UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
in 2006. He has served as a medical officer for many athletic
events—including the World Half Marathon Championships, Team England
Commonwealth Games (four times), and British Athletics Federation—and
was medical officer for the Great Britain team at the World Junior
Championships (three times) and European Junior Championships (two
times).
Dr. Milroy is the author of Sports Injuries, coauthor of the AAA
Runner’s Guide, and author of numerous other articles on sport
and exercise topics for journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is also
an accomplished runner: winner of the World Medical Games 5,000 meters
event and half marathon in 1980, 1982, and 1984 and winner of the
European Medical Games 20K, 5K, and 1,500 meters events in 1983. His
personal best in the marathon is 2 hours and 26 minutes. At the age of
65, he cycled from Los Angeles to Boston (3,300 miles) in 35 days.
He lives in Chester, United Kingdom, with his wife, Clare, near to his
four children and five grandchildren.
