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Learn about recent advances in our understanding of how mechanotransduction and mTORC1 signaling are affected with mechanical overload, as well as how regional differences in skeletal muscle hypertrophy occur with different modes of exercise.
Males and females differ in physical performance: Males are typically faster, stronger and more powerful than similarly trained females. Yet in some circumstances, males are more fatigable in their limb muscles.
Sedentary behavior (e.g., sitting) has emerged as a potential independent risk factor for chronic disease and premature mortality. Learn about the evidence for this relationship and the possible biological mechanisms behind it.
Discover the innovative research techniques being used to understand how skeletal muscle functions at the ultrastructural and tissue-architectural levels.
Learn how signal transduction pathways activated with exercise shape molecular, cellular and/or physiological adaptations, particularly the signaling pathways activated by protein post-translational modifications, which allow rapid sensing of stimuli to subsequently drive gene transcriptional…
Learn about recent advances in our understanding of how mechanotransduction and mTORC1 signaling are affected with mechanical overload, as well as how regional differences in skeletal muscle hypertrophy occur with different modes of exercise.
Exercise can modulate the gut microbiome, leading to improvements in glucose metabolism, inflammatory response to colitis and exercise capacity. Learn how exercise reshapes the gut microbiome, leading to improvements in liver disease and performance.
This course outlines what osteoporosis is and how it’s diagnosed, as well as risk factors, prevalence, pathophysiology and current management.
Sponsored by: Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI)
Sponsored by: Gatorade Sports Science Institute
From a safety perspective, risk management (RM) can be defined as a “proactive administrative process that will help minimize legal liability exposures facing exercise professionals and fitness facilities”. Legal liability exposures are situations that create a risk of injury or reflect…
Everyone has a preferred “default” posture, based on a number of factors, that best stabilizes their spine and peripheral joints. Identifying the thresholds at which a client’s posture changes during a static or dynamic assessment can help us understand their impairments, prescribe useful…
The simple strategies discussed in this course can help reshape how exercise professionals think about programming while providing them with a framework for structuring a training program that helps clients see improvements in strength and range of motion. Learn how to challenge clients’…
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…
