The complete guide to personal training / Morc Coulson.
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TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Place, 2013.Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 282 pages : illustrations, black and white, and color ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781408187234
- 140818723X
- 613.71 COU
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More and more exercise professionals are turning from Group Exercise to Personal Training as a career. Reflecting this massive growth in numbers, Morc Coulson has written a complete reference guide for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programmes to personal training clients. This guide contains practical tips for designing a range of appropriate client exercise programmes but always with a focus on the best ways you can sustain a financially successful business in this area - and how you can stand out from the crowd. The Complete Guide to Personal Training also covers all of the Level 3 requirements detailed within the Health and Fitness National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications Framework relating to personal training, and provides the theoretical underpinning of how to programme appropriate exercise for your clients. It also carries Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) continuing professional development (CPD) points - these points are part of the ongoing training all fitness professionals need to undertake to retain membership of REPs.Includes:The foundations of personal training; Planning and delivering exercise programmes; Training methods and exercise techniques; Nutrition; Health and safety; Setting up, marketing and growing a successful business Ideal for personal trainers in the health and fitness industry as well as those wishing to undertake qualifications in this area.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: The foundations of personal training -- Chapter 1: Professional practice -- Chapter 2: Reflective practice and professional development -- Part Two: Plan exercise programmes -- Chapter 3: Collect and review client information -- Chapter 4: Programme design -- Part Three: Deliver exercise programmes -- Chapter 5: How to teach and adapt exercises -- Chapter 6: Instructing -- Part Four: Manage exercise programmes -- Chapter 7: Review and adapt programmes -- Chapter 8: Training methods -- Part Five: Working with special populations -- Chapter 9: Musculoskeletal system -- Chapter 10: Exercise guidelines -- Part Six: Nutrition exercise and weight -- Chapter 11: Digestive system and nutrients -- Chapter 12: Healthy eating -- Chapter 13: Analysing nutritional information -- Part Seven: Health and safety in practice -- Chapter 14: Health, safety and welfare -- Chapter 15: Protection of children and the vulnerable -- Chapter 16: Risk assessing, injuries, illness and emergencies -- Part Eight: Sales and marketing in practice -- Chapter 17: Marketing in practice -- Chapter 18: Selling in practice -- Chapter 19: Practical financial management.
This guide contains practical tips for designing a range of appropriate client exercise programmes but always with a focus on the best ways you can sustain a financially successful business in this area - and how you can stand out from the crowd. The Complete Guide to Personal Training also covers all of the Level 3 requirements detailed within the Health and Fitness National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications Framework relating to personal training, and provides the theoretical underpinning of how to programme appropriate exercise for your clients. It also carries Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) continuing professional development (CPD) points - these points are part of the ongoing training all fitness professionals need to undertake to retain membership of REPs.