Cancer and the Older Adult: The Personal Trainer’s Resource Overview

This resource identifies cancer risk factors and provides cancer prevention strategies related to lifestyle. The facts and practical applications are intertwined is such a way as to render the information totally relevant. That is, this resource not only deals with the essential materials related to cancer risk, disease states and treatment, but offers research-based guidelines for both avoiding and addressing cancer. There is a section on physical activity for cancer survivors, with specific recommendations regarding exercise and lymphedema. A similar and equally strong segment of this resource is the nutritional guidelines for cancer survivors. All of this leads to a chapter which features specific diet and exercise recommendations for living productively after surviving various types of cancer. This is followed by recipes for attaining desirable amounts of fruits and proteins through shakes and smoothies. In sum, this is an ideal resource for personal trainers who wish to work effectively with older adults who have experienced cancer.

Course Objectives:

  1. Explain what cancer is and how it can develop.
  2. Identify lifestyle factors that may increase the risk of getting cancer.
  3. Describe how diet, weight and exercise affect the length and quality of cancer survival.
  4. Explain diet and exercise recommendations for survivors of various cancers.

Table of Contents:

  • Chapter 1: Understanding Cancer
  • Chapter 2: Cancer Prevention Related to Lifestyle
  • Chapter 3: Risk Factors for Common Cancers
  • Chapter 4: Cancer Survivors
  • Chapter 5: Specific Diet and Exercise Recommendations
  • Chapter 6: Shakes and Smoothies for Special Populations

Course Format

The course materials for this resource are delivered to you electronically. After purchase, you will receive a study package that consists the course overview, distance learning evaluation form, the 56-manual entitled CANCER AND THE OLDER ADULT: The Personal Trainer’s Resource and the 36-page workbook. A multiple choice, online exam must be completed and a grade of 80% or higher achieved in order to successfully complete the course.

Continuing Education Credit Information

  • ACE 0.4 (ACSM accepts ACE CECs)
  • BCRPA 10.0
  • BOC 4.0
  • CAN-FIT-PRO (PTS, NWS, OAS) 2.0
  • CPTN 7.0
  • ISSA 5.0
  • NASM 0.4
  • NASN 0.4
  • NESTA 0.4
  • NSCA (CPT) 0.4
  • SFA 0.4
  • WITS 2.0

The author

Tammy Petersen is the Founder and Managing Partner for the American Academy of Health and Fitness. She has written two books on older adult fitness and designed corresponding training programs. SrFit is used nationwide as the textbook for a college based course for personal trainers who wish to work with Baby Boomers and beyond. SrFit is also the basis for an advanced training home study course that qualifies for up to 22 contact hours of CEU credit with the major personal trainer certification organizations and 24 hours with the athletic training Board of Certification. Functionally Fit, through on-line trained certified nurse aides, reaches the chronic long-term care and assisted living patient to provide daily functional strength training as an accepted and expected part of the daily care plan. She has also co-created two other programs. JrFit is an advanced training home study course that focuses on youth strength training and nutrition that that qualifies for up to 22 contact hours of CEU credit with the major personal trainer certification organizations and 24 hours with the athletic training Board of Certification. Move More, Eat Better – YOU Matter! is a lifestyle change course for the general population that focuses on exercise/activity, diet/nutrition, stress and change. Tammy’s educational background includes Bachelor of Science degrees in marketing and economics from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. She holds a Master of Science in Education in the area of health and fitness, with an emphasis in geriatrics, from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. She is an author for Personal Training on the Net. Additionally, her articles have appeared in IHRSA’s Club Business for Entrepreneurs, Personal Fitness Professional, Club Industry’s Fitness Business Pro, AFAA’s American Fitness and OnSite Fitness.

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