Advanced Training for Muscular Endurance Version 1.1 This interactive, online course is designed to help you learn about advanced training techniques for developing muscular endurance and how to use them. It is supplemented by Periodization Training for Sports, Second Edition by Tudor O. Bompa, Ph.D. The course includes several supplementary information tables, a glossary of key terms (hyperlinked to the lessons) and an online final exam. In this course you will learn advanced techniques that emphasize the endurance component of muscular fitness training. With your current understanding of the basic concepts of general strength training, this course will help you reach a deeper understanding of how to develop a precise program to meet sport-specific goals of endurance individual athletes. The course will help you to move away from a one-program-fits-all approach to training, toward one in which fine-tuning occurs. You will assume the role of a newly promoted strength and conditioning coach, and you'll spend three days with a virtual mentor. The virtual mentor will introduce you to client-athletes and ask you to interact with them as you would in a real-life situation. Your mentor will lead you through the following situations and exercises: Day 1: Needs Analysis -- You will review the components of a needs analysis by determining your clients' training status and goals, apply the biomotor abilities classification system, identify which primary energy pathways your clients will use and perform an analysis of their movement patterns. Day 2: Developing a Training Program -- As you work with your clients you will identify exercises that will be beneficial in meeting the sport-specific needs of the athlete, will understand the different periods and phases with a periodization model, and understand how muscular endurance is incorporated into a periodization model based on individual athlete muscular endurance needs. Day 3: Developing Individualized Programs -- You will apply specific details to the muscular endurance training segments of the periodized program; develop individualized programs using the correct combination of load, repetitions or duration, number of exercises, rest intervals, and frequency of training; understand the expected metabolic adaptations for the individualized program; select the most critical exercises to include in the maintenance phases of training when the time devoted to muscular fitness is limited and allot the appropriate amount of time for muscular endurance training during the maintenance phase, which reflect the relative contribution of muscular endurance to the performance.     Finally, you'll take the online test, which covers material from both the interactive course and the textbook. System Requirements This course is designed to work best when your computer and Internet browser are configured to the following technical requirements and setup specifications: Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows), Netscape Navigator 7.1+, Mozilla 1.7+, or Firefox 1.0+. Computer monitor preferences set for 640 X 480 resolution or larger. Adobe Flash Player version 5+. To download the free Flash Player, click on the button below. Adobe Reader version 7+. To download Acrobat Reader, click on the button below. Browser pop-up blockers disabled. Back to the Online Education Center