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.

"The Business of Personal Training: Essential Guide for the Successful Personal Trainer" is a handbook for personal trainers looking to start, improve, or diversify their business. The information in this book constitutes over 15 years of experience in the fitness industry in an effort to help personal trainers avoid common pitfalls and mistakes that can destroy the business. This book goes beyond personal training certifications and program design and provides invaluable information on how to: 1. Structure and operate a business 2. Create brand value 3. Market and promote personal training services 4. Effectively sell and generate revenue 5. Drive referral business and customer loyalty 6. Expand and diversify the business "If you want to understand how a successful personal training business should run, read this book. Twice. Just like a great movie has twists and turns you don't notice until the second viewing, this book contains concepts that will require further digestion before it can be assimilated. While we all may change and evolve as industry professionals, the words of wisdom contained within these pages are (in my opinion) timeless." Jamie Atlas, Owner, Bonza Bodies Fitness

A complete reference guide for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programmes for personal training clients. The Complete Guide to Personal Training also covers all of the Level 3 requirements detailed within the Health and Fitness National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications Framework pertaining to personal training, and provides the theoretical underpinning of how to programme appropriate exercise for your clients. Includes information on: - The foundations of personal training - Planning and delivering exercise programmes - Training methods and exercise techniques – this enhanced epub also contains nine videos of key exercises - Nutrition - Health and safety The book contains practical tips for designing a range of appropriate client exercise programmes but always with a focus on the best ways you can sustain a business in this area and how you can stand out from the crowd. It is deal for personal trainers in the health and fitness industry as well as those wishing to undertake qualifications in this area.

Personal training is an exciting industry to be in right now! Starting a personal training business can offer a satisfying combination of financial reward, a flexible schedule, and a career where you can make a profound difference in the lives of others. As skilled personal trainer, having good business knowledge and judgment can be the first step to earning a substantial income. In this revised guide, our experts teach you the nuts and bolts of starting a business, including everything from writing a business plan to finding a profitable niche within the exercise and sports community. From boutique studios to partnerships with schools and private trainers, this book will help get you started on the right foot.

"From the author of the highly acclaimed, Ignite the Fire: The Secrets to Building a Successful Personal Training Career comes a handy reference guide that answers all of your questions about personal training."--Amazon.com.

Developed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), this book is designed to help people prepare for the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Certification exam or learn the basic principles of personal training using NASM's Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model. The OPT model presents NASM's protocols for building stabilization, strength, and power. More than 600 full-color illustrations and photographs demonstrate concepts and techniques. Exercise color coding maps each exercise movement to a specific phase on the OPT model. Exercise boxes demonstrate core exercises and detail the necessary preparation and movement. Other features include research notes, memory joggers, safety tips, and review questions.

Redefine Yourself: The Simple Guide to Happiness is the newest self-improvement book from Michael Moody, personal trainer in Chicago and weight loss guru. It is the answer to your perpetual failure to achieve the goals and happiness that you desire. You will uncover your shocking inner self that has undermined your efforts everywhere from the gym to the workplace. By the end, you will incorporate the simple approach that will not only reshape your life, but positively impact those people around you, too. Most important, you will remove the invisible obstructions that hold you back from achieving personal growth! Redefine Yourself exemplifies a new generation of health and fitness books that emphasizes the mental and emotional you when pursuing success. For the first time, the main focus of physical and personal change is not just nutrition and exercise. It is a targeted focus on a process of awareness, acceptance, and adaptation. Not only does this book help you examine yourself, it provides you with the tools to handle any challenges within and beyond the gym. Redefine Yourself is truly the in-your-pocket resource for daily change.

ACSM’s Resources for the Personal Trainer provides a broad introduction to the field of personal training, covering both basic science topics and practical application. It was originally designed to help people prepare for the ACSM Personal Training Certification Exam. It continues to serve that function, but the market for it has expanded to practitioners in the field looking for an additional resource, as well as in an academic setting where the book is a core text for personal training programs.

Ten simple, practical ways to get moving, get healthy, and feel great. Wanting to get on track and actually getting (and then staying) on track are two totally different things. The million-dollar question is: how do we find the inner motivation to go from thinking about a healthier lifestyle to actually adopting one? How do we get off the sofa and out the front door? Finding Your Fit: A Compassionate Trainer’s Guide to Making Fitness a Lifelong Habit provides readers with practical tools that will allow them to connect the dots between wanting to make a health and fitness change, and actually making it.

A Professional's Guide to Small-Group Personal Training will help you incorporate group dynamics and your knowledge of training principles to develop new business offerings. Attract new clients and improve their performance, adherence, and enjoyment in a small-group setting.