Home Study Courses

This course will provide a clear explanation of the types of diabetes and their treatments, essentials on tailoring an effective exercise program to fit your or your client's capabilities, guidelines for safe exercise programs and a unique way to maintain motivation.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

Arthritis: Your Complete Exercise Guide provides a safe and sensible exercise program that will help reduce the adverse effects of arthritis and improve fitness. Arthritis patients and professionals who work with them will find this book to be invaluable.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

Chronic Fatigue: Your Complete Exercise Guide is a comprehensive guide to a balanced, step-by-step exercise program that will help patients beat back chronic fatigue and improve their overall health. In this book readers will find a clear description of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome, design specifications for exercise programs to meet the needs of people with chronic fatigue, guidelines for safe exercise, four complete exercise programs.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

This course will provides a safe, sensible exercise program design to pick up where formal therapy leaves off. You will find a clear explanation of what a stroke is and how the brain recovers from a stroke, essentials on tailoring an effective exercise program to fit the capabilities, guidelines for safe exercise.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

This course provides you with a safe and sensible exercise program that will help reduce the symptoms of respiratory ailments-especially breathlessness and improve health & fitness.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

This course includes 50 fact-filled tables, and explains how to eat the best foods before, during, and after exercise; use of carbohydrates to enhance performance; taking supplements wisely and reducing the risk of heardt disease, osteoporosis, and cancer through healthful eating.  Included are 131 new, quick, delicious recipes

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Power Eating is loaded with the latest findings in the field including new data on supplements and ergogenic aids. The text provides you with no-nonsense advice on eating to increase muscle strength and power, scientific answers to common sports nutrition questions, complete breakdowns of carbohydrate, protein, fat, and total calories for recommended foods, and eight sample diet plans to help athletes achieve specific training goals.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

What methods and equations are best for estimating body fat? Should an individual's age, gender, ethnic group, and physical activity level affect the method and equation used? Answers to these questions and more. You will learn the principles underlying skin folds, bioelectrical impedance, near infrared interactance, and Anthropometric methods.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Whether you are considering a career as a personal trainer or searching for ways to increase your revenue and gain new clients for your existing business, you'll find this book to be an indispensable reference. Written by some of the most successful personal trainers in the country, this book provides the foundation for building your personal training business, and how to be an effective trainer.

4 CEU Credits. $91.00

Learn to balance facility and equipment needs with limited resources, enhance safety, manage risk, and prevent liability. Develop and maintain facility maintenance programs, plan facility renovation and construction, and set priorities and schedule facility use.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the countless exercise options out there? If you're like most people, all you really want to know is what exercises to do, when to do them, and how to execute them properly. All these questions are answered for you and more. The book takes the guesswork out of setting up a personal exercise program, with guidelines that meet the Surgeon General's recommendations on fitness and joining fitness facilities.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

This course contains straightforward guidelines and procedures that will help you to become a competent and confident first responder to athletic injuries. Our sport first aid guide shows you how to develop a basic knowledge of sport injuries, recognize common sport injuries, and administer appropriate sport first aid for nearly 100 common injuries.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

This course features the latest theories on aging and exercise and their effects on such medical conditions as Cardid' respiratory disease, musculoskeletal diseases, metabolic health and mental health.

5 CEU Credits. $114.00

Strength Training Past 50 explains and shows the most effective way for mature adults to work their muscles by presenting specific strength tests, 9 safety essentials, 39 age appropriage exercises, a 10-week workout plan, and personalized programs for increasing muscle size, strength, or endurance.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

This manual provides a collection of 15 award-winning fitness programs for older adults. The ideas and activities are presented in a consistent and easy-to-understand format. Directions for implementing the programming ideas are included, as are charts, brochures, registration and safety forms, newsletters, and a listing of resources that will ensure a successful program. The book presents a full spectrum of approaches to helping older adults get and stay fit.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

This book provides everything needed to develop, market, and manage a fitness program for older adults. Learn safe and effective exercise programming. Presented are 105 land-based and 74 water-based exercises.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

This is a state of the art guide to developing individualized Training programs for both athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Includes new studies and current research findings on resistance training and physical conditioning. Included is resistance training programs for women, children, seniors and those training for sporting activities.

5 CEU Credits. $114.00

This complete weight training guide makes it easier than ever to tailor a program to achieve specific muscular fitness goals. Fitness Weight Training is an easy-to-use manual that helps readers determine what they want from weight training (muscle toning, body shaping, or strength development) and how intensely they should train. Then readers use 50 color-coded, progressive workouts as they follow a program that matches their current fitness level and personal goals.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

Explore the scientific principles, concepts, and theories as well as the practical how-to of strength training and conditioning. Comprehensive information on the structure and function of body systems, training adaptations, testing and evaluation, exercise techniques, program design, and administration of the training facility.

6 CEU Credits. $136.00

Discover how to develop the body's most important source of energy and support. its core muscle groups. The abdominal and back muscles form the foundation for enhanced fitness and athletic performance. Featuring 165 exercises and packed with training advice, this is your guide to rock hard abs and strong supportive back muscles that prevent low back injury and pain.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Written for beginning and less-experienced strength trainers, the book's practical, how-to advice for safe and effective workouts provides 140 illustrations show how to perform the 75 exercises and use the equipment correctly. Also provided are 22 equipment free exercises, 20 training programs and 24 advanced exercises.

2 CEU Credits. $68.00

Muscle Mechanics teaches resistance trainers the safest and most effective techniques for performing 73 exercises. For each exercise, the book provides detailed, full-body or waist-down illustrations to show which muscles should be used for each lift. Several exercises are included for each region and for every major muscle group of the body.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

You will find 45 activities and strategies as well as 80 exercises and 40 homework assignments that furnish a variety of practical ideas to keep students moving, thinking, and acquiring the skills needed for active living. For each activity description, you will find practical techniques to help you put the activity into practice.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

This easy to use guide debunks the myths about weight training and kids, helps you learn how to design strength training programs for all major muscle groups and 16 sports and presents detailed instructions for more than 100 strength exercises, structured especially for kids age 7 to 18.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Be strong, comfortable, healthy, and active throughout your pregnancy with Motherwell Maternity Fitness Plan. Considered by health professionals as the gold standard of maternity exercise, Motherwell’s medically proven program is designed specifically to meet the needs of women before, during, and after pregnancy.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Water fitness is a form of exercise that people of all ages and fitness levels can participate in. It is important to design a program that is effective, safe, and fun. YMCA Water Fitness for Health is an excellent resource to assist instructors in developing a program that keeps students coming back, class after class.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Here is the essential information for designing, implementing, and managing an aquatic therapy program. This complete guide to the aquatic treatment of orthopedic injuries addresses topics ranging from program format to risk management and pool design. The book also presents 28 plans of care for the treatment of injuries to the lower extremities, upper extremities, and spine.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00

Water exercise is excellent for physical therapy and fitness because it enhances range of motion and eases pain of movement. Now a single book makes it easy for you to design your own water exercise program, whether for injury rehabilitation, special conditions, cross-training, or just shaping up.

3 CEU Credits. $68.00