Training Health
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Taylor Kevin Isaacs
M.S., C.P.T., C.S.C.S., M.E.L.T
National Provider Identi er (NPI) number: 106*******
310-***-****(fax)
abpj36@r.postjobfree.com
suite #216Los Angeles, CA 90024.
BIOGRAPHY
Taylor-Kevin Isaacs is a highly credentialed award winning Kinesiologist/clinical exercise physiologist
and certi ed strength and conditioning specialist. This former professor of Kinesiology at California State
University in Northridge was named the IDEA Trainer of the Year in 2002, the American Council on Exercise
(ACE) Trainer/Clinical Exercise Specialist of the Year in 2002, and was the two-time Grand Champion MET-
Rx World s Best Trainer in 2000 and 2001. In July 2009, he was honored and recognized as an award winning
IDEA expert author. Currently, in private practice, he teaches, conducts clinical research, interns allied health
profession students and trains a variety of private clients.
Clinical Exercise Physiologist/ Clinical Instructor
Former Professor, Kinesiology Department, California State University,
Northridge
Kinesiologist
Neurorehabilitation Specialist
ACE (American Council on Exercise Trainer of the year, 2002)
IDEA Trainer of the year, 2002
MET-Rx World s Best Trainer 2000 and 2001
NSCA Strength and Conditioning Specialist (Certi cation #
97-07-11-003)
Clinical Exercise Specialist
IDEA Master Fitness Trainer
Certi ed Post-Rehabilitation Exercise Specialist
Honored Award-winning IDEA Expert Author
Myofascial Elongation Lengthening Technique Certi ed
EDUCATION:
High School: Eden College, Johannesburg, South Africa
12/1984
College: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Major: Life Sciences: Physiotherapy
12/1985
College: Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
Major: Associate Degree
5/1988
College: University of California, Los Angeles
Major/Minor: Pre-Med, Psychobiology/Behavioral Modi cation(Autism) 5/1992
College: California State University, Northridge.
Major: Master of Science: Kinesiology/Exercise Physiology
6/1998
Board of Directors : Clinical Exercise Physiologist
Life Rolls On: Jesse Billauer s Spinal Cord Injury Research Foundation
Ambassadorships
Faculty/Ambassador/Spokesperson for American Council on Exercise (ACE)
Faculty/Ambassador/Spokesperson for IDEA.
IDEA Personal Fitness Trainer (PFT) committee member.
Resident Cinical Exercise Physiologist Fascioscapulohumeral Muscular
Dystrophy support group and online fshfriends.com
Research
The Psychosocial and Physiological Effects of a Formal Exercise and Nutrition
program on a male C-5,6 Complete Quadriplegic
1998
The Psychosocial and Physiological Effects of a Formal Exercise and Nutrition
program on a male C-4,5,6 Incomplete Quadriplegic with Central Cord
Compression
Syndrome
2000
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Researcher/supervisor of a spinal cord injury study titled: The Physiological and
Psychosocial effects of a Formal Exercise Program on Ten Incomplete
Quadriplegic Males. This is a 36 week study assessing the effect of exercising 3
days/week for 2 hours/session on body composition, gait mechanics, functional
mobility, balance, posture, musculoskeletal strength and endurance, joint
exibility, cardiovascular endurance, self concept, and motivation to exercise.
2002
Courses Taught: Department of Kinesiology-California State
University,Northridge.
1) Kin 230/311 Therapeutic Exercise for Special Populations.
2) 230/311L Supervise chiropractic interns (LACC) and student
assistants in applied Kinesiology and Therapeutic Exercise.
3) 115A Adapted Therapeutic Exercise.
4) 115A - Adapted Strength Training. designed to transition individuals
with disabling conditions from the CAPD to a community tness
center.
5) 126A Strength and Conditioning
6) 152A Soccer.
7) Kin 275 Functional Anatomy
Department of Family, Environment and Science
7) FES 271-Biostatistics lab.
Department of Kinesiology -California State University, Los Angeles
1) Co-created the Center of Rehabilitative Exercise (CORE).
2)Taught: Therapeutic Exercise for Special Populations during the
Winter, Spring, and Fall Quarters, 1999 2000.
3) During the lab section, I evaluated, designed, managed, and
implemented changes in both the client and the student assistant s
program card.
CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS
1) Advanced certi cations Personal Training, resistance training,
advanced resistance training, Fitness counseling, and Nutritional
counseling from the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
(AFAA), American Institute of Fitness Educators (AIFE), and the
American Council on Exercise (ACE).
2) National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
Certi ed Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
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3) Recognized by IDEA as a Master Fitness Trainer (MFT)
4) Certi ed Post Rehabilitation Exercise Specialist by the American
Academy of Health and Fitness Professionals.
5) American Institute of Fitness Educators (AIFE) as an older adult
exercise specialist and a personal trainer.
6) Reviewer for the NSCA Journal of Strength and Conditioning.
7) Member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation, and Dance. (AAHPERD).
8) American Council on Exercise (ACE) certi ed Clinical Exercise
Specialist.
9) Certi ed by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)
Shoulder
Rehabilitation Specialist.
10) Athletic Training Program Certi ed Presenter
11) Resident Cinical Exercise Physiologist Fascioscapulohumeral
Muscular Dystrophy support group and online fshfriends.com
AWARDS
1) Dean s Honor List and Summa Cum Laude at: Irvine Valley
College, UCLA, and CSUN.
2 ) D e a n s A w a r d f o r S c h o l a r s h i p a n d S e r v i c e
6/8/97
3) Dean s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in the College of
Health and Human D e v e l o p m e n t .
4/24/97
4) MET-Rx World s Best Personal Trainer 1999 2/19/00
Grand Prize Winner.
Grand Champion Trainer.
Deconditioned/Rehabilitation Category Jesse Billauer ( C5-6
Complete Quadriplegic)
5) MET-Rx World s Best Personal Trainer 2000 2/24/01
Grand Prize Winner.
Grand Champion Trainer.
Deconditioned/Rehabilitation Category Aaron Baker ( C4-5-6
Incomplete Quadriplegic with Central Cord Compression Syndrome)
1) American Council on Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer of the Year
2002 3/9/02
2) IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year 2002 3/1/02
3) Strength and Conditioning Specialist/consultant to Harvard
Westlake Men s Varsity Tennis Team 2002,2004,2005 CIF Tennis
Champions 6/3/02
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VIDEOS
ACE (American Council on Exercise) HEALTHY LEARNING VIDEOS 11/8/02
1) The Art of Personal Training
2) Rise Above From Dysfunction to Function
3) Corrective Exercise: Anterior/Posterior postural deviations
4) Corrective Exercise: Lateral Postural Deviations
5) Corrective Exercise: Impaired Balance Training
PUBLICATIONS:
1) November Men s Fitness
2) LA Daily News- SCI Rehab
3) Muscle and Fitness
4) IDEA source
6) Northridge Magazine
7) IDEA Personal Trainer Journal (January 2003), 6th Annual Sports
Conditioning Issue: Soccer Training for All (Independent Study CEC
Approved)
8) IDEA Fitness Journal (July 2005). Annual Training Special
Populations Issue: A Step-by-Step Approach for Training Clients with
Neuromuscular Disorders (Independent Study CEC Approved)
9) TEXTBOOK: IDEA TRAINING SPECIAL POPULATIONS.
Authored the chapter on Training Clients with Neuromuscular
Disorders.(Published August 2005)
10) DIABETES RESEARCH AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION
a) Human Motivation = Peak Performance (September
2003)
b) Resident Clinical Exercise Physiologist Fitness
Question and Answer Column. Answering various health,
wellness, and exercise related questions.
c) Arthritis and Diabetes
d) Diabetes and Resistance Training
e) Safely return to exercise following inactivity.
f) Beginning an exercise program
g) Importance of exercise for individuals w/diabetes
h) Training for a 5K race
i) Choosing a trainer
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j) Safe and effective exercise for individuals with diabetic
neuropathy
k) The future is your time
l) Perfect posture prevents pain permanently
BOOKS: 1/30/08
Transforming Lives: The work of Taylor-Kevin Isaacs and his extraordinary clients:
A Photoessay by Kaye Kittrell
PRESENTATIONS
Title: The C.O.R.E. (Center Of Rehabilitative Exercise) Development Process:
How C.O.R.E. will ful ll an unmet need!
2/2/09
Location: Robert H. Ballard Rehabilitation Hospital in San Bernardino
Target Audience: The Free Wheelers and Possabilities: A fairly new organization
through Loma Linda University directed toward disabled athletes in the
community.
The purpose of this presentation is to move one step closer to the goal of
changing the health care paradigm. Who better to speak to the need of a
C.O.R.E. facility than individuals with a disabling condition who did not have this
option at the time of their injury. Their responses will pave the way for future
generations to have that choice! Clients don't need adequate care. They need
excellent care. Excellence does not just come from passion and enjoyment. It
comes from study, experience and hard work. Sweat changes things. This is the
real key. This is what the "collective we" have in common. The purpose of
formulating the CORE committee and CASE STATEMENTS is to rst and
foremost formulate a transition team that will make this dream a reality!
The following questions will be presented and discussed.
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With respect to question #1, it is important to establish how long I have worked
with each client and how long each client has had their respective disability. These
two variables establish experience - the experience of working toward
overcoming a disabling condition, and their respective improvements resulting
from a long-term dedicated commitment to therapeutic exercise. It will also
validate the ef cacy of therapeutic exercise for a wide variety of physical
disabilities, musculosketal injuries, diseases and a host of other disabling
conditions.
1. How has ongoing therapeutic exercise affected the management and
improvement of your condition?
a. List your primary diagnosis and if applicable all coexisting conditions.
b. Date of disabling condition/illness.
c. How long have you and Taylor been working together.
d. How many days and hours per week do you and Taylor work together.
2. How would you have felt, at the time of your injury or diagnosis of your
condition, if there was a C.O.R.E. facility for continuity of care post-discharge
from outpatient physical therapy?
3. What would having access to a C.O.R.E. facility mean to you?
Title Share the Care: State of the heart care, state of the art technology: 11/19/08
The purpose of this presentation is to reframe the perspective of the soon to
graduate student athletic trainers and student physical therapists. The main
objective is to impress across the notion that high performance results are the
product of a high performance education. The education that you receive will
teach you how to turn theory into thought, thought into action, and action into
high performance. In addition high performance results come from having high
performance standards. The standard of care is two-fold: rst ask yourself this
question, Would you like someone like you as your clinician? The seconds aspect
is for you to aspire to be like the person your mother would like you to marry.
LOCATION: University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Dr. Terry Noonan Professor and Head Athletic Trainer of Athletic Training.School
of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services
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Title: Releasing habitual muscle tension decreases Chronic Pain: A gradual step-
by-step a p p r o a c h
11/18/08
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss various
methods that relaxes your whole person instantly upon
the rst perception of a state of tension. A variety of
methodologies designed speci cally for the reeducation
of the neuromuscular system will be discussed. You will
come to recognize localized muscle tension and enact
the procedure (s) to induce a relaxation response
after all relaxation is the body s built in tranquilizer.
The following tension release procedures will be
discussed, demonstrated and elaborated on:
1. Joe Wolpe: Systematic Desensitization
2. Edmund s Jacobson s progressive systematic relaxation.
3. 4 Transitional zones within an axially aligned vertebral column
4. Diaphragmatic breathing inspiration 4 seconds: hold 7 seconds, expiration
8 seconds
5. Tension inventory
6. Breathing Inventory
7. Passive Tension Flooding
8. Active Tension Release
9. Systemic Quick Tension Release
10. Self Operations control using the rule of Peak tension to diminishing
tensions
11. Myofascial Release
12. An 18 step whole body approach to releasing muscle tension by
improving blood circulation.
LOCATION: Covenant Medical Center: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare,
Waterloo, Iowa.. Dr. Joeseph Nora Medical Director Rehabilitation Program
Title: Celebration of completion: The full use of one s powers along the lines of
excellence
11/9/08
The purpose of the presentation is to inform members of the allied health care
profession, members of the community and individuals living with a disabling
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condition of a historical milestone. My client Aaron Baker, a recovering
quadriplegic, and his mother Laquita along with Team Rise Above completed his
cross-country bike ride 9/27/08. Last year he became the rst - ever recovering
quadriplegic to ride on a tandem bike 3182 miles from San Diego to Florida. This
year he rode 4180 miles independently on a trike from Sanfrancisco to
Washington D.C - making him the rst-ever recovering quadriplegic to achieve a
milestone of such magnitude. The purpose of the celebration of completion is to
share the process and accomplishment. The overall purpose is to aspire all
individuals to the power of possibility and to promote the ongoing bene ts of
therapeutic exercise in obtaining the result of optimal health and wellness.
Please visit the website www.riseabovetour.com
Here is the link to the Winchester Star article reporting on this milestone.
http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?
sID=5&foldername=20080924&file=Quadriplegic_article.html
Location: The Paseo Recreation and Screening Room, Valencia.
Title: HELP YOUR CLIENT REGAIN FUNCTION: A step-by-step practical
approach.
7/25/08
These LEARNING OBJECTIVES will be covered:
1. Integrate an exercise program into your client s training schedule,
ensuring safe, effective and ef cient exercise and performance
progression.
2. Discuss the importance of using the Karvonen formula instead of
the standard 220 age * relative intensity to determine the client s
target heart rate zone.
3. Identify the importance of using the SAID principle (Speci c
Adaptations to Imposed Demands) when designing an exercise
program.
4. Specify the elements of the physical activity program for individuals
with neuromuscular disorders.
5. Recognize how exercise for an individual with a neuromuscular
disorder is highly personalized and prescriptive.
6. List the bene ts of passive static standing.
7. Cite client information to obtain from the medical professional.
8. Explain the vicious cycle of disability.
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9. Understand the importance of abiding by the special instructions
in order to decrease the client s internal core temperature to avoid
overheating.
Location: Kaiser Permanente Joint Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pain
Management symposium
Title: Transforming bodies, Transforming Lives. 7/16/08
Description: The dual- purpose of which is to integrate health care in health clubs
and to bridge the gap between physical therapy and personal training with clinical
exercise physiology in order to provide the necessary on-going bene ts of
therapeutic exercise.
On a personal note: My clients ask me how come there aren't any clinicians like
yourself nor any facilities that we can go to after we have been discharged from
traditional physical therapy. To that question "I respond together we are going to
improve the health care system by changing the health care paradigm. Happiness
is all about choices. I look forward to the day when a person discharged from
formal physical therapy can continue on the remarkable improvements made
while in physical therapy, knowing that they are in good, caring, and able hands. I
envision the day when the clinical exercise physiologists and physical therapists
are considered two horns on the same goat and can work together in preventing
injury and enhancing the performance of their client. I look even more forward
to the day when the question " where do we go, once we have had our case
discharge conference? is no longer asked. There are many stories worth telling
and many achievements worth applauding - all fueled through human
determination. The process is the progress!
Location: University Hospital: Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, Salt Lake City, Utah
Title: The Notion Of Motion Out Of Your Seat And On Your Feet. Improving
Function Increases Independence and Boosts Self-Ef cacy.
7/15/08
Description:
This presentation accentuates how-to vigorously, wholeheartedly and
conscientiously to live the tness lifestyle at any age and level of ability. This
presentation emphasizes the necessity of a formal nutrition and exercise program
that covers all of the components of the circle of function. It includes a focus on
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gait mechanics, musculoskeletal strength, power and endurance, balance,
exibility, posture, aerobic conditioning and neuromuscular reactive training,
which centers on speed, agility and acceleration. The most important piece of
equipment in the gym that I use to reduce my client s risk of injury and to
maximize performance is their body. When training an individual with frailty, it is
imperative to adopt a joint-by joint approach in order to prevent them from
becoming a master compensator from which if not detected will lead to common
compensatory pain patterns. A successful recovery process makes a great
example of the expression, let my conduct be my case .
Location: Tri- County Independent Living Center, Ogden Utah
Title: How a Wellness Centered Approach Keeps a Community Well 4/27/08
This presentation identi es the barriers to regular exercise for individuals with a
variety of disabling conditions.. During the presentation the problem (s), what to
do about it (them), and how to get it done will be clearly stated. This
presentation is centered around improving health and wellness in the residents of
an agricultural community.
Location: Agua Dulce and Acton.
Title The Ongoing Bene ts of Therapeutic Exercise in order to maximize your
client s recovery. This presentation will discuss the importance of identifying
tissue texture abnormalities, restrictions in range of motion, and assymetries that
predispose one to injury. Also included will be a complete discussion on
prevention, detection and the monitioring of an injury taking into consideration
the location, magnitude and rate of progression. The process is the progress.
LOCATION: University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
4/22/08
Dr. Terry Noonan Professor and Head Athletic Trainer of Athletic Training.School
of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services
Title: Stay In Shape While You Wait
4/21/08
LOCATION: Covenant
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