CPD and Event opportunities

The Research, Relevance, and Reality of Brain Health: Science-Supported Strategies for Physical Activity in Older Adults

1 CEC

Presented by Audrey Collins

The brain is broadly and unequivocally affected by physical activity. Despite existing gaps in the literature, we have the opportunity to improve brain health in older adults through evidence-based practice. This course will describe realistic and meaningful strategies for promoting the adoption of lifestyle behaviors in older adults, ultimately aimed at maintaining and improve aspects of brain health across the lifespan.

This course will:

• Review scientific evidence about the relationship between aspects of brain health and physical activity;
• Explore the brain health-specific additions (Chapter 11) to the 11th edition of ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription;
• Translate the latest research and recommendations into evidence-based practice;
• Identify relevant considerations for exercise professionals working with the older adult population; and
• Discuss meaningful strategies to engage members of the older adult population in lifestyle behaviors that promote brain health.

Smart Monitoring of Health, Wellness and Fitness: Heart Rate Variability and Wearable Technology

1 CEC

Presented by Jaime Roa

How can we use heart rate variability (HRV) to monitor health, stress, body battery, sleep, training status and recuperation? This course will describe the science and practical applications of using HRV monitoring in our daily lives, as well as review the different wearable options we can use to monitor HRV and how the general population can easily analyze and understand the data to optimize health, fitness and training.

Participants will learn to:

• Describe heart rate variability and its applications in monitoring health, wellness and fitness;
• Analyze and understand the HRV data in the latest wearable technology; and
• Understand the importance of HRV monitoring in optimizing health, fitness and training.

Inclusive Fitness: No-Cost Strategies to Support Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities (ID)

1 CEC

Presented by Justin Hunsinger; Melissa Otterbein; Monica Forquer

Approximately twice as many people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are insufficiently active compared those without. Inclusive fitness professionals are the leaders needed to reverse this trend.

Learn from Special Olympics International about no-cost strategies to form community partnerships that improve the active participation of people with ID in gyms, what people with ID need to participate in fitness in inclusive atmospheres, and how to engage people with intellectual disabilities in your gym leadership.

Attendees will learn about universal design principles, communication skills for working with people with ID and how to use Special Olympics fitness assessment resources, as well as:

• Establish a partnership with Special Olympics;
• Engage people with ID in leadership opportunities at your gym;
• Implement no-cost strategies to make your gym inclusive; and
• Utilize Special Olympics resources and curricula to lead people with and without intellectual disabilities in fitness programming and to stay active outside of the gym.

Building The Client Journey: From Lead to Raving Fan

1 CEC

Presented by Jeff Schumacher

The key to keeping a client around long enough to change their life lies in how they are onboarded, nurtured and celebrated within a community. Gyms that have the lowest attrition rates and highest client values excel in all four phases of the “client journey.” In this course, you’ll be introduced to actionable steps and practices proven to increase client satisfaction, client retention and lifetime value.

Participants will leave this course with all the tools they need to and immediately take action to improve retention and lifetime client value.

This course includes an online video and a corresponding online quiz.

ro tips for engaging people with cognitive impairment in evidence-based exercise: a master class

1 CEC

Presented by Jeff Schlicht; Maria Fiatarone Singh; Michael Inskip

Cognitive impairment affects people of all ages, from children with Down syndrome to older adults with dementia, and maximizing engagement with exercise can be challenging due to difficulties with comprehension and attention.

Our team, with over 75 years of experience working with people with Down and dementia, shares practical tips for eliciting maximal and safe participation during group- and 1-on-1 exercise training.

Course-takers will learn engagement and cueing strategies, leaving the class confident they can be effective trainers for people with cognitive impairment. The workshop also includes a presentation describing the importance of progressive resistance training for the prevention and treatment of dementia.

Course-takers will:

• Increase self-efficacy for working with people with cognitive impairment (via performance mastery and vicarious experience);
• Execute proper visual, auditory and somatosensory cueing techniques to elicit maximal effort;
• Learn attention-centering techniques to increase clients’ time on task; and
• Understand the rationale for prescribing progressive resistance training to people with cognitive impairment and key modifications to programming in those with moderate to severe dementia.