A revised and updated third edition of the popular Complete Guide to Personal Training with up-to-date content and new exercises.This is the complete reference guide for anyone working as a personal trainer, or studying to become one, with an in-depth look into the role of the trainer in relation to codes of conduct and client care. This comprehensive book contains practical tips and advice for designing a range of exercise programmes for clients. It also ...

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 suc...

The essential guide to strength and conditioning training for anyone delivering targeted exercise programmesThis comprehensive manual offers practical tips for planning, delivering and reviewing a range of strength and conditioning exercise programmes for all ages and abilities. Learn what exercises and testing methods are required to develop your client's performance in areas such as strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, movement competency and more. It include...

The 4th edition of The Fitness Instructor's Handbook is the essential guide for anyone working in, or wishing to enter, the fitness industry.Packed full of illustrations, exercise photos, case studies, revision questions and sample programmes – this guide covers every aspect of the theory needed to work as a fitness instructor.Clear, concise and accessible, the content is organised with the specific needs of the fitness professional in mind and cov...

The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Fitness is an invaluable reference manual for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programmes for pregnant women.The book is packed with practical tips on designing activity programmes, as well as how to apply the correct techniques to over 40 exercises, aided by full colour photos.This is an up-to-date practical guide to the underpinning theory and includes comprehensive recommended reading for each chapter. ...

An important addition to the tried and trusted Complete Guide series, The Complete Guide to Teaching Exercise to Special Populations is a vital resource for fitness professionals who prescribe exercise programmes to anyone categorised as belonging to a special group.'Special population' covers many of us with a health condition which may mean we need a supervised and well-informed exercise programme. Covering a wide range of conditions from osteoporosis, h...

***The Fitness Instructor's Handbook***3rd edition is the essential guide for anyone working in, or wishing to enter, the fitness industry.Including an added chapter on Cardiorespiratory machine exercises covering correct technique, safety points and step-by-step photos and updated references throughout, this new edition reflects the latest changes to the National Occupational Standards (Levels 2 and 3).Topics covered include:- the skeletal ...

This is an indispensible guide for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programmes for clients or groups. Fitness tests are crucial to measure current fitness and then monitor progress to check the effectiveness of a training programme.The theory and practice of fitness testing, in both exercise and sport settings, are covered in a clear and accessible way. The information is fully up to date with current research and population norms, and lots of diagrams and illustrations make...

New and updated, The Fitness Instructor's Handbook, 3rd edition is the essential guide for anyone working in, or wishing to enter, the fitness industry.Including a brand new chapter on Cardiorespiratory machine exercises covering correct technique, safety points and step-by-step photos and updated references throughout, this new edition reflects the latest changes to the National Occupational Standards (levels 2 and 3).Topics covered include:The skeletal sys...

The Advanced Fitness Instructor's Handbook follows on from The Fitness Instructor's Handbook.It is the first textbook to cover the National Occupational Standardsand the Qualifications framework for Level 3 and Level 4 Instructorsteaching Exercise and Fitness - required to teach one-on-one, and thestandards which gyms are increasingly expecting staff to attain.