Morc Coulson

The Complete Guide to Personal Training: 2nd Edition (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A revised and updated second edition of the popular Complete Guide to Personal Training. Expertly written and suitable for anyone working as, or training to be a Personal Trainer.

This is a complete reference guide for fitness professionals who prescribe exercise programmes to clients. This guide contains practical tips for designing a range of appropriate client exercise programmes. Importantly, it focuses on the best ways you can sustain a financially successful business in this area and how you can stand out from the crowd.
It 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.

The book also includes all Level 3 requirements detailed within the Health and Fitness National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications Framework relating to personal training and has been awarded 3 CPD points by the Register of Exercise professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472953629
• Artikelnr.: 54673186

Autorenporträt

Morc Coulson is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Sunderland and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was Chair of the CPD endorsement panel at Skills Active for many years and is a Level 4 Specialist CPD course evaluator. He is the author of a number of books including The Fitness Instructor's Handbook, The Complete Guide to Teaching Exercise to Special Populations and Practical Fitness Testing (all published by Bloomsbury).

Inhaltsangabe

About this book Foreword Introduction PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONAL
TRAINING 1. Professional practice 2. Reflective practice and professional
development PART TWO: PLAN EXERCISE PROGRAMMES 3. Collect and review client
information 4. Programme design PART THREE: DELIVER EXERCISE PROGRAMMES 5.
How to teach and adapt exercises 6. Instructing PART FOUR: MANAGE EXERCISE
PROGRAMMES 7. Review and adapt programmes 8. Training methods PART FIVE:
WORKING WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS 9. Musculoskeletal system 10. Exercise
guidelines PART SIX: NUTRITION, EXERCISE AND WEIGHT 11. Digestive system
and nutrients 12. Healthy eating 13. Analysing nutritional information
PART SEVEN: HEALTH AND SAFETY IN PRACTICE 14. Health, safety and welfare
15. Protection of children and the vulnerable 16. Risk assessing, injuries,
illness and emergencies PART EIGHT: SALES AND MARKETING IN PRACTICE 17.
Marketing in practice 18. Selling in practice 19. Practical financial
management Appendices Glossary References Index