ToughAgers® 2.0 Instructors, Active Older Adult Fitness Live

This 6-hour live, interactive course will provide you the tools you need to teach a safe and effective active older adult fitness class and training session.

Exercise is for everyone, and seniors are no exception. The body will do what it is trained to do, so let's focus on older adult exercise education for instructors to ensure seniors' bodies function optimally. Just like all other age groups, seniors need cardio, balance, resistance, core, and flexibility training. Since most seniors will not exercise on their own, it's essential to equip fitness professionals with the knowledge and skills through senior fitness training education and comprehensive fitness education for seniors to train this demographic effectively.

• In the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 63 million people ages 50-64 and more than 55 million people ages 65+ in 2021 were counted.
• In 2018, the National Center for Health Statistics surveyed Americans to find out who met the federal physical activity guidelines for aerobic and muscle-strengthening. They found just over 24% of 25–64-year-olds, 16% of 65-74-year-olds, and 10% of those 75 years and older met the guidelines.
• Considering we are trying to serve so many older adults with a vast array of physical abilities and levels of activity, it is important for the fitness industry to offer class options for this growing population.
• Some older adults may need the support of sitting in a chair to be active and there are currently many fantastic seated exercise class options available.
• For those who don’t need the support of a chair, the workout offerings aren’t quite as available to meet the needs of an aging body to support the ability to thrive. How do we help them?
• We can apply the SAID principle to active older adults by mimicking activities they engage in. Specifically, we can offer functional classes with cardio movements that are easy to follow and athletic-based, balance training that is task-specific and dual-task oriented, and finally resistance training that imitates daily behaviors and offers multi-joint and multi-planar variations. 
• This is the foundation of ToughAgers® classes.

1. Introduction

    a. ToughAgers® classes

    b. Experience a full ToughAgers® Class

    c. About the author

    d. History of ToughAgers®

    e. Research and guidelines

    f. Recommendations for older adults

    g. Neuromuscular system, performance, & exercise

   h. . Course overview

2. Cardiovascular Training

    a. Current Research and guidelines

    b. Music guidelines

   c. Warm up guidelines

   d. Cardiovascular training guidelines

   e. High Intensity Interval Training guidelines

   f. Warm up moves examples

   g. Low impact cardio moves examples

   h. Upper body cardio moves examples

   i. Class transition example

3. Balance Training

   a. Current research and guidelines

   b. Class guidelines

   c. Balance exercise examples

4. Resistance Training

   a. Current research and guidelines

   b. Class guidelines

   c. Cueing

   d. Movement training exercise examples

   e. Combination exercise examples

   f. Exercises on unstable surfaces examples

   g. Power exercise examples

   h. Isolated muscle exercise examples

   I. Band & Tubing exercise examples

5. Special Populations

   a. Osteoporosis-what is it?

   b. Osteoporosis-movements to avoid

   c. Osteoporosis-stats

   d. Osteoporosis-diagnosis

   e. Osteoporosis-fitness professionals role

   f. Osteoporosis protocol-safe movement

   g. Osteoporosis protocol-posture

   h. Osteoporosis protocol-back extensor and posture training

   i. Osteoporosis protocol-intensity scale

   j. Osteoporosis protocol-strength training

   k. Osteoporosis protocol-cardiovascular training

   l. Osteoporosis protocol-balance training

   m. Osteoporosis protocol-how to choose exercises

   n. Knee Osteoarthritis-what is it?

   o. Knee Osteoarthritis-fitness professionals role

   p. Knee Osteoarthritis protocol-when to modify or change an exercise

   q. Knee Osteoarthritis protocol-flexibility and range of motion

   r. Knee Osteoarthritis protocol-strength training

   s. Knee Osteoarthritis protocol-cardiovascular training

   t. Knee Osteoarthritis protocol-sample workout routines and exercises

   u. Knee Osteoarthritis Level 1 sample workout video

6. Core Training

   a. Current research

   b. Class guidelines

   c. Core exercises with resistance training examples

   d. Core exercise examples

6. Flexibility Training

   a. Current research

   b. Class guidelines

   c. Static stretch examples

7. Conclusion

Upon completion of this live course, you are encouraged to take the untimed quiz.  With a score of 80% or higher, you will receive a ToughAgers® Instructors Course Completion certificate with the following. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS:

•  0.6 NASM CEUs
• 6.0 AFAA CEUs
• 6.0 SCW CEUs
• 6.0 ISSA CEUs
• 6.0 ACSM CECs

The American College of Sports Medicine’s Continuing Professional Education Committee certifies that Tough Agers LLC ’s ToughAgers® Active Older Adult Fitness (in-person and online versions) courses meets the criteria for 6.0 official ACSM CECs from 1/1/2025 to EXPIRATION 12/31/2025. The ACSM Education Provider approved course reflects the concepts of their respective organizations and does not necessarily represent the positions or policies of ACSM.

ACSM education providership of this program does not imply endorsement of the sponsoring

organization’s products/services. 

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Friday, June 27 10:00am-5:00pm ET, 9:00am-4:00pm CT, 8:00am-3:00pm MT, 7:00am-2:00pm PT

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Thursday, October 2, 2025, 9:00 am-4:00 pm 

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