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Fitness managers and owners have a legal duty to provide reasonably safe programs and services for their participants, and that includes taking precautions against foreseeable injury risks. Learn what specific legal cases have to say about these precautions.
Help patients and clients manage fibromyalgia via exercise and physical activity. Learn how stretching, aerobic exercise, resistance training, yoga, tai chi, aquatic activities and more can improve well-being and quality of life.
Optimizing nutrition and physical fitness before surgery helps patients cope with surgery’s physical toll. Moreover, a carefully structured nutrition and physical rehab program after surgery maximizes surgical outcomes and facilitates a timely return to activities of daily living.
Use the 3Es of “environment,” “experience” and “education” to improve women’s experience in the weight room, from helping them step through door for the first time to supporting them as they continue on their weightlifting journey.
Add to your motivational toolkit: Learn the ins and outs of repetition tempos and how to program the right ones for each of your client’s unique exercise goals, from functional task performance to hypertrophy.
Find out how physical activity can help employees destress, avoid burnout and stay healthy.
Only a quarter of women engage in the recommended amount of physical activity during pregnancy. Learn how motivational interviewing, or “MI,” can help exercise pros get their clients moving during these critical nine months.
Despite meeting the required technical standards, clinical exercise physiologists (CEPs) have yet to be identified as qualified health professionals (QHPs). Lack of QHP status for CEPs has resulted in limited coverage of services by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) leaving CEPs…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we leveraged Exercise is Medicine® on Campus (EIM-OC) at Michigan Technological University to provide critical physical activity resources to Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula. A team of students, faculty, and fitness professionals: 1) promoted physical activity…
This article explains the difference, yet somewhat symbiotic relationship, between accreditation, certification, and licensure with examples specific to the exercise science profession. The future of accreditation for exercise science programs is addressed, and readers were given suggestions for…
Evaluating CRF is critical in developing safe and effective exercise prescriptions. Although the direct measurement of expired ventilatory gases via open circuit spirometry is the gold standard for assessing CRF, submaximal exercise testing and field tests that utilize HR measures can serve as a…
Fitness managers and owners have a legal duty to provide reasonably safe programs and services for their participants , and t hat includes taking precautions against foreseeable injury risks . Learn what specific legal cases have to say about these precautions.
Lear n how to use biomechanics — in particular range of motion (ROM) — to understand what might be limiting you or your clients’ mobility , as well as strategies for injury prevention and rehab.
Fitness classes should be engaging and enjoyable! We recommend that fitness instructors are informed on the technique of mental imagery during exercise. The use of imagination may transform exercise sessions into a unique experiential activity that the exercisers will not want to lose! Learn…
Technological improvements in bicycling may allow for innovative ways to incorporate physical activity into normal daily tasks. One such innovation is the electric bike (E-bike). E-bikes present an innovative, fun approach to active transportation and leisure activity that has the additional…
PLEASE NOTE: This is the presentation only version free to ACSM National Members . The full course (1.0 CEC) can be accessed by members and non-members here: 2026 ACSM Worldwide Fitness Trends: Interpreting Trends Shaping the Health and Fitness Industry | American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
