Strength & Conditioning Principles for Special Populations

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This course provides advanced strength and conditioning and clinical exercise programming for individuals with chronic disease and other special populations. Building on previous coursework, students integrate key concepts in pathophysiology, medications, and contraindications with evidence-based resistance training, conditioning, and monitoring strategies. Emphasis is placed on assessment/testing, load and fatigue management, and translating research into safe, scalable programs across cardiometabolic and endocrine conditions, pregnancy/postpartum, pediatrics and older adults, neurodiversity, shift work, and cardiovascular disease. Students will practice in-depth NSCA programming concepts.