The Personal Trainer S Handbook

If you love fitness and you're looking for an alternative to the typical 9-5 office job, The Everything Guide to Being a Personal Trainer will help you turn your passion into a career. Opportunities for professional fitness trainers are everywhere-fitness clubs, college athletic programs, even professional sports teams. The Everything Guide to Being a Personal Trainer is a step-by-step guide that will take you from gym rat to fitness guru in no time. This easy-to-follow book progresses from training to certification with tips to help you: Choose a work environment Set up a business plan Find, motivate, and keep clients Learn about marketing and networking Written by two personal-training professionals, The Everything Guide to Being a Personal Trainer is all you need to get started in the exciting, growing field of fitness.

Click here for screenshots of the software. 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 ·Handouts you can print and give to clients to reinforce your training 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

The Personal Trainer's Handbook is a one-stop practical reference guide to the day-to-day running of a personal training business, covering: essential business skills - how to target your market, insurance, finances, marketing personal development - fitness and safety, looking after yourself, managing the work/life balance how to deal with clients - managing the first meeting, creating the right programme, typical client groups, considerations for special client groups such as diabetics, pregnant women and so on reference material - sample forms that the reader can use, useful websites, professional bodies.

This books is "the most comprephensive and authoritative resource for you as a personal trainer, whether you are a newcomer to the field or have a well-established business. The book is truly a complete resource - it's full of information about working with clients and designing programs, and it's a practical guide to all aspects of the personal training business. .... [It] will help you in all aspects of your profession: learn applicable information on fitness testing and assessment ; identify your clients' goals and create fitness tests specifically for them ; learn how to develop cardiovascular, strength and flexibility training programs ; properly train and help special populations ; understand the business side of personal training, including marketing yourself as a trainer, getting and retaining clients, and learning time management ; learn how to expand your business." - back cover.

The Fitness Instructor's Handbook is the essential guide for anyone working in, or wishing to enter, the fitness industry. This new second edition has been fully updated and covers every component of the industry standards for both Level 2 and 3 qualification, and offers the perfect blend of theory and practice on every aspect of health and fitness. Clear, concise and accessible, the content is organised with the specific needs of student and newly qualified fitness professionals in mind - it covers every aspect of the theory needed to work as a fitness instructor, and places it in a practical context. Topics covered include: the skeletal system muscles and tendons the energy system circulation and respiration components of fitness safety issues customer service screening clients planning and programme design exercise evaluation. Packed full of illustrations, case studies, revision questions and sample programmes, The Fitness Instructor's Handbook is the ideal book for both those new to the industry and experienced trainers.

The Secret Of Personal Training is a holistic guide that helps channel your focus on finding the power within you to master yourself and your fitness training career. This book incorporates the law of attraction philosophy and a holistic spiritual approach to attain a thriving personal training career, build long-lasting friendships, increase your salary, and gain abundance in every area of your life. With this book, the reader will learn how to cultivate their hidden power, discipline the mind, and enhance the spirit that helps fulfill their major purpose in life—assisting others in becoming healthier and growing stronger.