NOTE: The book Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training is required for successful completion of this exam but is not included with this purchase. Purchase this Online CE Exam Without Book only if you already own the book or ebook.

Consisting of 100 multiple-choice questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training. The exam will test your knowledge of the information presented in the book, so you can incorporate high-intensity interval training into fitness and sport conditioning for your athletes.

Once you pass the exam, you can print a certificate for continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Explain and differentiate the five types of high-intensity interval training.
• Explain how to manipulate the HIIT variables to maximize improvements in physical performance.
• Explain how to incorporate HIIT into an athlete’s training program.
• Describe the influence HIIT can have on fatigue, stress, and overall health.
• Describe how to apply knowledge about HIIT to 20 popular individual and team sports.
• Identify how HIIT is incorporated into sport-specific preparation and competition phases to prepare athletes for competition.

Audience

A continuing education course for strength and conditioning coaches, personal trainers, athletic trainers, exercise physiologists, and other certified fitness professionals.

Paul B. Laursen, PhD, is an endurance coach, a sport scientist, and an adjunct professor for Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He earned his doctorate in exercise physiology from the University of Queensland, was formerly the physiology manager for High Performance Sport New Zealand, and now resides in British Columbia, Canada.

Laursen is well known throughout the international sport and strength and conditioning communities for his knowledge and research of high-intensity interval training. His other interests include health, longevity, heart rate variability, thermoregulation, and artificial intelligence application to training. He has published more than 125 peer-reviewed manuscripts in exercise and sport science journals; his publications with coauthor Martin Buchheit are among the most cited. He is an active endurance athlete, having completed 18 Ironman triathlons.

Martin Buchheit, PhD, is a sport scientist, a strength and conditioning coach, and the head of performance for the Paris Saint-Germain Football (Soccer) Club. He is also an adjunct associate professor of exercise science for Victoria University in Australia. He previously worked as an exercise physiologist for ASPIRE Academy in Qatar, and he has served as a lecturer, consultant, and strength and conditioning coach for various organizations.

Buchheit received his doctorate in physiology from the University of Strasbourg in France. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts, with much of his research focusing on high-intensity interval training. The training tools he has developed include the 30-15 intermittent fitness test, used to program high-intensity training, and the 4 3 running test, used to track changes in training status using heart rate variability and GPS and accelerometer data. Buchheit was involved in the launch of Sports Performance & Science Reports, an open-access web-based platform aimed at improving research dissemination. He is an endurance athlete who has a personal best time of 2:54 in the marathon.