The Personal Trainer's Handbook

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Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9780736045018
ISBN: 0736045015
Label: Human Kinetics Publishers
Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 257
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Studio: Human Kinetics Publishers

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Starting your own personal training business or wanting to improve your existing practice? With the updated and expanded second edition of the popular The Personal Trainer’s Handbook, you’ll have all the advice and tools you’ll need to succeed.

Like the popular first edition, this easy-to-use reference is written in everyday language and covers everything from designing safe and effective fitness programs to handling even the most difficult clients. You will learn how to achieve personal and financial success as a personal trainer, how to attract and keep clientele, and how to manage taxes and other business issues that are crucial to a personal training business.

With the new edition, you’ll also get a succinct but comprehensive review of exercise physiology that’s directly applicable to your business. This text includes a valuable new CD-ROM with the following features:

· 10 reproducible forms you can use and modify to manage the commercial, practical, and legal requirements of your business
· Forms for data collection and record keeping
· Charts and tables for writing the most beneficial exercise program for each client
· 3 case studies to help you hone your skills
· Excerpts from other Human Kinetics publications designed to help you improve your practice in everything from individualizing exercise prescription to applying principles of periodization to your clients’ programs

The Personal Trainer’s Handbook, Second Edition, also features an improved resistance workout guide. The guide contains
· instructions and illustrations for 74 exercises and 17 stretches,
· important reminders to give your clients to ensure ongoing correct form, and
· tips on how to handle or avoid common problems that you or your clients may experience with each exercise.

In addition, the resistance workout guide now contains a handy box on the outer edge of each page that has listings of the primary and secondary muscles and the area of the body worked by each exercise. This will help you quickly locate appropriate exercises for each client.

The author, Teri O’Brien, is a well-known consultant on starting and growing personal training businesses and a former lawyer and personal trainer. She uses a clear, friendly, and entertaining writing style to share a wealth of practical guidance. With The Personal Trainer’s Handbook, Second Edition, you will become a more effective self-marketer, businessperson, motivator, and teacher for your clients.

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Summary: Best Book Ever
Comment: It's just head and shoulders above any Personal Trainers resource I've ever used. I absolutely emphatically recommend that anyone pursuing a career in training read this book.

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Summary: Thanks for writing this book, Ms. O'Brien
Comment: As an aspiring personal training entrepreneur, I bought your book after it was recommended by the chairman of the Exercise Physiology Department at a major university. I give your book an enthusiastic thumbs up to ANYONE who wants to make fitness their life, or even their hobby The legal forms are priceless, the section on handling difficult clients is indispensible and the resistance training form guide is great! I have told all my colleagues to buy it, and the chairman I referred to adopting it as the textbook for my alma mater's 'personal training business' instruction class. Thanks for writing this book, Ms. O'Brien.

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Summary: Terrific Resource for the Beginner or the Pro
Comment: I think Teri O'Brien's "Personal Trainer's Handbook" is the most valuable resource I have ever owned. The 2nd Edition is thoroughly updated, augmented with a CD rom, and even better than the one I cut my teeth on, the original edition. I am particularly impressed by the section on legal forms and liability issues. Since the author is a lawyer as well as a exercise physiologist, the book contains a wealth of information you simply can't get anywhere else. I prefer O'Brien's writing style to that of Galt or Brooks or any of the other popular fitness authors. I think her writing is more accessible to the beginner and very enjoyable to read for the pro, such as I. I simply can't imagine not having this book in my fitness resource library.

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Summary: Outdated information and poorly presented reference material
Comment: New trainers looking for a reference handbook will not benfit from spending money on this handbook. Douglas Brooks' "Going Solo" and "Program Design for Personal Trainers" has more high quality information for new trainers. This handbook just contains the same generic fitness guidelines of most fitness books that can be gotten for free through various websites. For basic reference with a higher quality publication, ACE's "Personal Trainer Manual" covers everything you need with more easy to find quick reference tools and high quality demonstrations, where this handbook is crammed text with a poor layout making it difficult to quickly find basic information since you have to sort through the author's excess commentary. For non-professionals, Ian King's "Book of Muscle" will give a wealth of easy and solid information for the beginner looking for a hardcover manual. This is definitely not for anyone looking for cutting edge info or how to really develop effective exercise programs. The many free resources at ACE, ACSM and NSCA's websites give you the same information without wasting your money.

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Summary: A must for those starting in the business
Comment: The first part of the book is pretty simple in its concept. Mostly it gives you ideas on interaction with clients. Even with issues I already knew it was nice to have the reassurance. The best part of the book from was the EXERCISE section. It gives concise and easy to follow instructions on many exercises and they are broken down by body parts. What makes this especially valuable is that she give you reminders to tell your client plus things to watch out for as a trainer for each exercise. I only wish she had added more of this in the book. I practically scanned this whole section and uploaded it into my Palm Pilot for quick access at the gym ***That may be an idea for you Teri for future products**Also in the back are several standard forms such as a medical release.

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