Course
This course is designed to give fitness professionals a working background in the area of exercise programming for people with coronary heart disease.
This course is to provide continuing education for the trainer who has already demonstrated a basic knowledge of exercise science and programming. As such, it will briefly review the gross anatomy and physiology of the circulatory system, including but not limited too the following: Blood vessel microanatomy such as the lumen and the Tunics are covered. Also discussed are the heart chambers, the various heart valves, and the micro tissue structures of the heart such the sinus node and the branch bundle.
Following the opening sections, this course covers each of the major factors that contribute to heart disease, such as heredity and lifestyle, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, congenital defects, and idiopathic origins. We offer a detailed look into disease origin and pathology, and how the chronic adjustment to a given stimuli creates a life threatening response to this impairment. We follow this with a brief overview of traditional medical management, including current medications dispensed to treat coronary ailments. Students are given the drug’s classification name as well as the consumer name; the primary effect on how it treats the problem, as well as some the common side effects to watch out for.
The authors of this course have utilized the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines for exercise programming and contraindications. Discussed in great detail are how to interact with clients health care provider, minimal requirements to begin exercise in a non-clinical setting, tips on which piece of equipment to use, how to modify and adapt intensity, and how to compose the ratio of aerobic conditioning to resistance training and flexibility needs.
In this personal, interactive workshop with Michael and Neal you will experience:
- Almost 2 hours of Audio Visual Presentations, with 75 detailed PowerPoint slides.
- Course text you can print and make notes as you listen and watch the presentation.
- The ability to come back and view these AV presentations as many times as you want.
- A multiple choice and true/false CEC test, which you can retake 4 times, to earn valuable CECs and print your Certificate of Completion.
