Foundations of professional personal training

Motivating and guiding others to a healthy and fit lifestyle are your passionas a personal trainer. Your challenge is shaping that passion into consistent, high-quality service. To succeed as a personal trainer—and to help your clients succeed—turn to canfitpro’s Foundations of Professional Personal Training.It is the resource you need to build not only your fitness expertise but alsoyour assessment prowess, communication skills, and business knowledge.Written by canfitpro, a certification and continuing education provider for Canadian fitness professionals, Foundations of Professional Personal Training is the manual used for the canfitpro Personal Training Specialist certificationprogram. The text includes the essentials of fitness theory and practical application, client assessment and screening, safety considerations, and program design. This information is complemented by chapters on the business of personal training, the psychology of personal training, and the purpose and goals ofcanfitpro certification as well as a section on evaluation standards. Plus, two photo-rich appendixes provide you with an increased repertoire of exercisesto share with your clients, including 20 core resistance-training exercises with two or three variations and progressions to each and 30 stretches for flexibility.Included with the book is a special bonus DVD-ROM titled Essentials of Interactive Functional Anatomy DVD. Using a 3-D model of the human musculature, thisDVD-ROM provides a vivid review of the components of structural anatomy. Thisinteractive interface allows participants to rotate the skeleton and remove all 11 layers of anatomy—from muscles down to bones. It is a valuable guide to structural anatomy for personal trainers at any stage of their career.

• ISBN: 978-1-4504-4132-2
• Editorial: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés