Lance C. Dalleck

In a world where strokes affect nearly 10 million American adults, the need for tailored exercise programming for stroke survivors is paramount. This article offers guidance to health and exercise professionals in creating safe and effective exercise programs for stroke survivors that addresses the challenges posed by comorbidities, medication interactions and specific exercise considerations to enhance the quality of life for those on the road to recovery.

Peripheral neuropathy is a widespread condition characterized by damage to the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord that affects an estimated 20 million Americans. Fortunately, regular exercise can help individuals better manage their symptoms of peripheral neuropathy and minimize its progression. This article outlines strategies for helping your clients with peripheral neuropathy perform exercise safely and effectively.

Although physical activity confers a wide range of health benefits, it can aggravate or worsen asthma symptoms, which may lead to inactivity and decreased conditioning. Fortunately, as a health and exercise professional, you can work closely with clients who have asthma and/or EIB to design and implement exercise programs that minimize symptoms and exacerbations. This article outlines strategies for helping clients who have asthma or EIB perform exercise safely and effectively.

Older adults often deal with challenges such as balance impairments, osteopenia, sarcopenia and other health-related disorders, all of which require unique modifications to their exercise programs. This article details 10 key exercise-programming tips for creating effective exercise programs for your older adult clients.

As many as 1 million Americans are living with multiple sclerosis (MS). As a health coach or exercise professional, it’s important to understand the unique exercise programming needs of this underserved and vulnerable segment of our population. This article presents nine insights that will help guide your work with individuals with MS, and provides you with the information you need to create safe and effective programs for this clientele.

Wintertime exercise can pose a range of safety challenges, including a greater fall risk due to snowy and icy conditions. Here are seven research-based strategies you can use to help your clients perform outdoor wintertime activities safely and effectively.

Fatigue is one of those things that’s easy to recognize, yet difficult to quantify, and for which it is nearly impossible to determine causality. This article examines the different types of exercise fatigue and explores how you can help your clients manage them.

When it comes to human physiology, males and females are distinctly different, so it doesn’t make sense that most recovery guidelines for men and women are basically the same. This article highlights key physiological differences between women and men and provides guidelines for creating effective training recovery recommendations for your female clients.

February is American Heart Month, a designation intended to remind people to focus on their cardiovascular health. Is it possible to reverse the process of heart disease? Can our clients make up for the sins of their youth by adopting a healthy lifestyle later in life? This article presents the most current, evidence-based strategies for the prevention of what continues to be the leading cause of death among Americans.

An estimated 1 million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease, which is a common neurodegenerative disease that can affect the ability to perform common, daily activities. This article highlights nine key exercise programming considerations for clients with Parkinson’s and is intended as a guide for health and exercise professionals who currently or may one day work with clients who have Parkinson’s disease.

This is another article in an ongoing Q&A series in which ACE experts answer your health and exercise questions. From nutrition to youth fitness, you’ll find detailed answers to many of the questions that may come up in your work with clients. In this installment, Dr. Lance Dalleck answers your questions about returning to regular exercise post-COVID pandemic.

Longer and hotter summer months are associated with increased air pollution and more potent seasonal allergies, which means health and exercise professionals need to help their clients take extra precautions when exercising outdoors. This article outlines strategies you can use to help your clients perform outdoor activities safely and effectively when pollution and seasonal allergies are on the rise.

The fact that summers are getting longer and warmer, combined with a growing threat of extreme heatwave events, means that health and exercise professionals need to help their clients take extra precautions when exercising outdoors. These research-based strategies will help your clients perform outdoor summertime activities safely and effectively.

High-intensity interval training is frequently compared to moderate-intensity continuous training, but is it a fair comparison? Is one superior to the other? This article examines the research on each of these training methods to help you make better decisions when designing programs for your clients.

Aging results in numerous changes across multiple physiological systems that make proper recovery protocols especially important. As a health and exercise professional, understanding this intersection between aging and training recovery will enable you to help your clients achieve their goals, whether they want to compete in masters-level athletics or simply keep up with their grandchildren.

February is American Heart Month, a designation intended to remind people to focus on their cardiovascular health. Is it possible to reverse the process of heart disease? Can our clients make up for the sins of their youth by adopting a healthy lifestyle later in life? This article presents the most current, evidence-based strategies for the prevention of what continues to be the leading cause of death among Americans.

Last year, we reported exciting preliminary findings from an ACE-supported study demonstrating that the ACE Mover Method is a successful strategy for facilitating behavior and lifestyle changes. This article expands on that earlier report and identifies some of the important individual lessons we learned that you can use to enhance and support your work with clients.

A growing body of research suggests that high-intensity functional training (HIFT), which combines high-intensity cardiorespiratory and muscular-training exercises, is both safe and effective for improving cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength and power, as well as overall health. Here’s what you and your clients need to know about HIFT.

Much like time-efficient cardiorespiratory exercise programming, considerable advances have been made in creating time-efficient programming for resistance exercise. Introducing clients to time-efficient resistance-training workouts is particularly important given that low muscular fitness has been identified as an independent and powerful predictor of chronic disease risk and premature mortality.

Not all clients need or desire a complete fitness assessment at the beginning of their programs, and for many they may be demotivating. This article explores the past, present and future of client-centered assessments, and how you can use the ACE Mover Method to manage a client’s expectations and utilize assessments and reassessments to bolster their motivation and help them achieve their goals.

Recent ACE-supported research has shown that hyperthermic conditioning can benefit overall performance. This article explores the physiology behind this next frontier in exercise programming and identifies practical considerations and strategies for integrating hyperthermic conditioning into your clients’ overall training programs.

Reduced-exertion high-intensity training (REHIT) shortens the traditional HIIT workout by using fewer and shorter interval bouts, but how low can you really go and still get an effective workout? This article looks at the available research to answer that question and explores practical strategies for incorporating REHIT into your clients’ training programs.

ACE-supported research studies have provided robust evidence that a threshold-based approach helps to personalize workouts for each client’s unique health, fitness and goals. This article explores how thresholds can be detected, including with wearable technologies, and explains how you can optimize clients' training responsiveness with threshold-based programming.

Recent ACE-supported research has shown that hyperthermic conditioning can benefit overall performance. This article explores the physiology behind this next frontier in exercise programming and identifies practical considerations and strategies for integrating hyperthermic conditioning into your clients’ overall training programs.

Reduced-exertion high-intensity training (REHIT) shortens the traditional HIIT workout by using fewer and shorter interval bouts, but how low can you really go and still get an effective workout? This article looks at the available research to answer that question and explores practical strategies for incorporating REHIT into your clients’ training programs.

As a health and exercise professional, you are in a great position to help your clients find ways to stay active despite the current restrictions and limitations. Read on to learn practical tips and approaches you can use to help your clients reduce and limit sedentary behavior, even during a pandemic. 

In this series, ACE experts answer your health and exercise questions. From nutrition to youth fitness, you’ll find detailed answers to many of the questions that may come up in your work with clients. In this installment, Lance C. Dalleck, PhD, answers your questions related to behavior change, including how long it really takes to form a new habit and what changes people should focus on making first.

The ACE Integrated Fitness Training® Model—ACE’s comprehensive system for exercise programming—was recently updated to incorporate new evidence-based practices while also making it easier to use and apply to your work with clients. Learn more about these changes and how you can more effectively help your clients reach their goals.

This is the first article in a series in which ACE experts answer your health and exercise questions. From nutrition to youth fitness, you’ll find detailed answers to many of the questions that may come up in your work with clients. In this first installment, Dr. Lance Dalleck answers your questions about high-intensity interval training.

Wintertime environmental conditions place considerable stress on the cardiovascular, respiratory and thermoregulatory systems, and the presence of snow and ice on the ground throughout the winter months increases the risk of slips and falls. This article outlines strategies for helping your clients perform outdoor wintertime activities safely and effectively.

Making sure that you have the tools and knowledge you need to be the most effective resource and behavior-change guide for your clients is essential, which is why ACE recently introduced the ACE Mover Method. Learn more about this power tool and how it can help you become more effective in supporting your clients along their health and fitness journeys.

There’s no question that exercise provides numerous health benefits, but a growing body of research suggests that exercising in a “green environment” may provide even more health benefits when compared to exercise alone. Here are some practical recommendations you can make to your clients based on the latest research on green exercise.

A myth can be defined as an untrue explanation for a natural phenomenon. Unfortunately, numerous myths remain pervasive and well-engrained throughout the fitness industry, in particular as it pertains to various performance and nutritional supplements. In this article, we closely examine nine common supplements and present scientific evidence for whether the use of each is based on myth or reality.

A growing body of research suggests that a more personalized exercise program of cardiorespiratory and resistance training promotes greater adaptations and training responsiveness. There are, however, limited accepted recommendations on how to create exercise programs on an individual level. This article explores the evidence-based strategies that will enhance your clients’ cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness training responsiveness.

A recent ACE-sponsored study demonstrated that resistance-exercise HIIT is more effective and time-efficient when compared to traditional resistance exercise at improving muscular fitness. Learn how to translate these research findings into everyday practice with your clients with this practical, evidence-based guide to resistance-exercise HIIT.

There has been no bigger trend in the fitness industry over the past several years than high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Now a growing body of research is validating the use of resistance-exercise HIIT. Learn about this unique form of strength training and how you can safely and effectively integrate it into your clients’ programs.

Learn how to safely and effectively integrate high-intensity interval training (HIIT) into clients’ training programs. 

The latest research shows that both heat and cold applications can benefit overall training and facilitate a more rapid recovery. Here is a practical, step-by-step guide on how to use heat and cold strategies to enhance your clients’ training effectiveness and recovery.

Many of your clients have undoubtedly committed to running a half-marathon (or longer race) in the coming year. To help you design effective programs for these endurance-minded clients, here are the latest evidence-based training strategies for improving three key performance-defining physiological parameters related to endurance: VO2max, lactate threshold and economy.  

Many Americans gain several pounds or more between Thanksgiving and the New Year, not only because they tend to eat more, but also because they are more likely to be sedentary. Fortunately, there are research-substantiated solutions you can offer your clients to help them avoid these pitfalls. Here are five evidence-based training strategies your clients can use to maintain their health and fitness throughout the holiday season.