Special Athlete Populations Online CE Course

This package includes the following:

• Addressing the Current Challenges for Athletes With Type 1 Diabetes video presentation (run time 1:06:53)
• Exercise Selection for Pregnant Athletes video presentation (run time 1:02:36)
• Performance Training for Adolescent Athletes video presentation (run time 49:44)
• Slide handouts
• Online practice exam
• Online continuing education exam

Consisting of three video presentations, Special Athlete Populations Online CE Course helps strength and conditioning coaches, sport coaches, and personal trainers provide special populations of athletes with appropriate and beneficial training options.

The first presentation, Addressing the Current Challenges for Athletes With Type 1 Diabetes, discusses topics relevant to athletes with type 1 diabetes: low-carb eating, using diabetes technology and automated insulin delivery systems, the impact of current diabetes medications on physical activity, and more. You’ll understand safe ways to enhance athletic performance specific to athletes with type 1 diabetes.

Next, Exercise Selection for Pregnant Athletes describes the exercises that are appropriate for athletes who are pregnant as well as how to reach fitness and strength goals. Specific examples of exercises are provided, including exercises that can help alleviate many of the common aches and pains experienced during pregnancy in the low back, SI joint, pelvic girdle, and tailbone. These exercises also help to prepare the body for labor.

The final presentation, Performance Training for Adolescent Athletes, offers guidance on programming for adolescent athletes. Topics include addressing growth-related changes, such as managing the impact of rapid growth spurts on coordination and mobility, and balancing training intensity with the unique recovery needs of middle and high school athletes. You’ll learn how to develop trust with adolescent athletes and how to successfully build a motor vocabulary.

Each video presentation in Special Athlete Populations Online CE Course contains slides that make it easy to follow along with the presenter’s discussion. Once you complete the course and pass the exam, you can print a certificate for continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives
After watching the Addressing the Current Challenges for Athletes With Type 1 Diabetes video presentation, you will be able to do the following:

• Discuss the potential causes of type 1 diabetes and which individuals are most likely to develop this condition.
•  Summarize the key strategies that are recommended for balancing exercise blood glucose levels in athletes with type 1 diabetes.
• Explain the primary ways to enhance athletic performance in athletes with type 1 diabetes, and discuss how they may or may not differ from approaches used for athletes without diabetes.
• Judge the best ways to use diabetes technologies during training and competition while considering the benefits and drawbacks of recent advances.

After watching the Exercise Selection for Pregnant Athletes video presentation, you will be able to do the following:

• State the four most common aches and pains during pregnancy.
• Differentiate between the three pelvic openings in terms of which movements open them.
• Recognize which movements contribute to pain and which movements alleviate pain.
• Modify a woman’s programming to include more bilateral and unilateral internal rotation.
• Implement mobilities in a pregnant woman’s strength training program.

After watching the Performance Training for Adolescent Athletes video presentation, you will be able to do the following:

• Describe three actions that you can perform to build rapport and trust with your athletes throughout the training session.
• List the five points of success when building a motor vocabulary with an adolescent athlete.
• Name the three components of an active dynamic warm-up and explain the purpose of each.
• Describe the two approaches to motor skill development.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning coaches, sport coaches, and personal trainers.

Addressing the Current Challenges for Athletes With Type 1 Diabetes video presentation
Sheri R. Colberg

Exercise Selection for Pregnant Athletes video presentation
Ashton Koehlmoos

Performance Training for Adolescent Athletes video presentation
Bill Parisi

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, FACSM, is a professor emerita of exercise science from Old Dominion University and an internationally recognized authority on diabetes and exercise. She is the author of 13 books, including Aging Well With Diabetes, The Athlete’s Guide to Diabetes, and Diabetes & Keeping Fit for Dummies. In addition, she has authored 39 book chapters and over 450 articles, including the latest American Diabetes Association and American College of Sports Medicine position statements on physical activity and diabetes. She was honored with the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award in 2016.

Ashton Koehlmoos, MS, CSCS, received a master’s degree in sport facility management from the University of South Dakota. She is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and holds their Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) credential. She works as a pregnancy and postpartum athleticism coach. Her career in the fitness industry spans more than 11 years working as a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, and fitness and youth sport director.

Bill Parisi, founder and CEO of Parisi Speed School, is a highly respected expert in sport performance, specializing in training middle school and high school athletes. With over 650,000 athletes trained across more than 90 facilities in the United States, Parisi’s methods are backed by decades of experience. His flagship facility in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, has become a hub for top-tier athletic development. Parisi has lectured for renowned organizations like the NFL, Nike, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and his expertise has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Fox Sports and ESPN. His deep knowledge of adolescent athlete development makes him an ideal subject matter expert for a continuing education video on exercise selection for this age group.