Online Continuing Education Courses

Strength

• Define and differentiate between key elements of muscle performance; strength, power, muscle endurance
• List key factors that influence the tension-producing capacity of normal skeletal muscle
• Explain the relationships among muscle fatigue, recovery from exercise and overtraining
• List precautions and contraindications for resistance exercise
• Describe principles and concepts of specificity or exercise, transfer of training overload, and reversibility as they relate to resistance exercise
• Describe the adaptation of muscle, connective tissue and bone to resistive exercise
• State general principles for application and implementation of resistance exercise