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0.7 ACE CECs
- Continuing Education
Essentials for Training Older Adults - Course Bundle
Course Bundle
| Provider: | ACE - American Council On Exercise |
| Type: | Online Course |
| CEC Credits: | ACE 0.7 CECs , ACSM - American College Of Sports Medicine 7.0 CECs |
Please note: You will earn CECs as indicated below for each individual course you complete. If you have previously earned CECs for any of the courses in the bundle, you will not earn credits for those courses again. You may check your course history in your My ACE Account.
Help Senior Clients Thrive Through Their Golden Years
With 83.7 million people aged 65 and older projected to be living in the United States by 2050 according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there is a high demand for trained professionals to help older adults focus on their health and fitness. From strength training and motivation to body and brain improvement, the Essentials for Training Older Adults course bundle will deep dive into improving your senior clients’ fitness and quality of life.
Courses include:
Strength Training for Older Adults (0.4 CECs)
Motivate, educate and train older adults using protocols for safe and effective resistance exercise programs. Design and develop comprehensive strength training programs for healthy older adults who are relatively fit and for those who have low musculoskeletal strength due to age-associated muscle loss and bone loss.
Motivating Older Adults: The Key to Healthy Aging (0.1 CECs)
Explore Prochaska’s Stages of Change to better understand the mindset of older adults. By learning important motivational strategies, you will be prepared to design effective programs tailored to your clients and give them the support and tools they need to embrace more active lifestyles.
Functional Programming for Active Agers (0.1 CECs)
Learn corrective exercises that address the active aging market’s common concerns, build confidence in exercise programming, and discover training strategies specifically for this demographic. In addition, you will understand how to help your senior clients improve brain, body and balance functioning so they can better perform the normal activities of daily life.
Aging and Exercise: Reduce Cognitive Decline with Physical Activity (0.1 CECs)
Design exercises and activities that stimulate the brain and body simultaneously, with a focus on building neuroplasticity. Cognitive decline is one of the largest factors in the loss of independence, and it’s an issue that is growing worldwide., Equip yourself with practical, evidence-based information and tools to help stimulate cognitive function in your aging clients so they can thrive in their golden years.
Reviews
I wanted to click one dot on the recommend however it won't let me. Which is completely ridiculous as was trying to take this course. Anyone with eyesight issues, glasses etc will hate this course. After 3 hours of reading the stupid book my neck hurts. If a book is required for a course you must let it be downloaded, print enlarged and a paper option! I feel anyone involved with the making of this course should take an ethics course on how to and NOT to talk and approach older adults. I got maybe 3 new exercises for my clients. The rest if you needed to be told, you need to not work with older adults.
Though I found some of the video demonstrated exercises to be helpful, overall the course was unnecessarily difficult to navigate and complete. Absolutely ridiculous that the e book could not be downloaded or enlarged on the screen!! Your target audience is seniors so it’s laughable that the only book available is print too small to see on a screen. This is such important subject matter and I feel ACE did a disservice to their clients by making the course itself so clunky. I do not feel that the structure of this course promoted learning, but rather made the participant rifle through endless videos and text to answer quiz questions. Please do better!
I had problems opening the PDF...took forever to load so that was frustrating.
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