The Complete Guide to Personal Training: 2nd Edition

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.

Morc Coulson is Senior Lecturer and programme leader of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Sunderland. 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).

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