The Personal Trainer's Handbook - 2nd Edition

Starting your own personal training business or wanting to improve your existing practice? With the updated and expanded second edition of the popular The Personal Trainer's Handbook, you'll have all the advice and tools you'll need to succeed.

Like the popular first edition, this easy-to-use reference is written in everyday language and covers everything from designing safe and effective fitness programs to handling even the most difficult clients. You will learn how to achieve personal and financial success as a personal trainer, how to attract and keep clientele, and how to manage taxes and other business issues that are crucial to a personal training business.

With the new edition, you'll also get a succinct but comprehensive review of exercise physiology that's directly applicable to your business. This text includes a valuable new CD-ROM with the following features:

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  ·10 reproducible forms you can use and modify to manage the commercial, practical, and legal requirements of your business
  ·Forms for data collection and record keeping
  ·Charts and tables for writing the most beneficial exercise program for each client
  ·Handouts you can print and give to clients to reinforce your training

The Personal Trainer's Handbook, Second Edition, also features an improved resistance workout guide. The guide contains
·instructions and illustrations for 74 exercises and 17 stretches,
·important reminders to give your clients to ensure ongoing correct form, and
·tips on how to handle or avoid common problems that you or your clients may experience with each exercise.

In addition, the resistance workout guide now contains a handy box on the outer edge of each page that has listings of the primary and secondary muscles and the area of the body worked by each exercise. This will help you quickly locate appropriate exercises for each client.

The author, Teri O'Brien, is a well-known consultant on starting and growing personal training businesses and a former lawyer and personal trainer. She uses a clear, friendly, and entertaining writing style to share a wealth of practical guidance. With The Personal Trainer's Handbook, Second Edition, you will become a more effective self-marketer, businessperson, motivator, and teacher for your clients

The Personal Trainer's Handbook provides practical how-to advice for individuals who want to start their own personal training businesses and for those who want to improve their existing practices. It's an easy-to-use reference that covers everything from designing fitness programs to handling clients. Drawing on her legal background and years of personal training experience, author Teri O'Brien explains how to manage business issues and tax planning, avoid potential legal problems, attract and keep clients, design safe and effective exercise programs for clients, conduct workouts in a professional manner, and motivate clients. The Personal Trainer's Handbook features the Resistance Workout Guide, a special section that contains fully-illustrated descriptions of 91 of the most common strength and flexibility exercises. Accompanying each exercise is a bullet point list that explains the objectives of the exercise, breaks down the exercise into its basic parts, tells trainers what form points to watch for, and identifies mistakes to avoid. Filled with insights that would take years for trainers to discover on their own, the Resistance Workout Guide makes it easy for personal trainers to guide their clients toward effective, successful workouts.

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Provides practical advice for those starting a personal training business, with chapters on business and legal matters, marketing, creating the client's exercise program, conducting the workout, motivating the client, and customer service. Half of the book consists of b&w illustrated resistance exercises and instructions. Includes numerous sample forms and fitness tests. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Teri O'Brien is an author, speaker, radio personality, and founder and president of Teri O'Brien Fitness Systems, Inc., a fitness consultation firm located in the Chicago area. Since starting the company in 1991, shortly after completing her master's degree in exercise science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she has designed optimum performance programs for people of all ages and conditions. A variety of women's and professional groups have enjoyed her entertaining talks and workshops on effective exercise programming, personal effectiveness, successful aging, and optimum performance.

Teri is not your usual fitness expert. Coaching and motivational speaking are a second career for this self-described recovering (as in nonpracticing) lawyer, who practiced law for seven years. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Arizona State University (ASU), where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She discovered the energy-boosting and stress-busting powers of exercise while she was in law school at ASU. To relieve her anxiety from school pressures, Teri began running and continued for nearly 10 years, completing five marathons and dozens of 10K races. After abandoning running in favor of weight training, Teri competed in several bodybuilding competitions, including the Gateway Classic, where she placed fourth in the lightweight class.

Teri is certified as a health fitness instructor by both the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise. In addition, she is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

She hosted a popular radio talk show on health and wellness on a major Chicago radio station and was featured twice in Shape magazine's “One on One” column. Teri also wrote and was featured in eight videos for fitness professionals in the American College of Sports Medicine's Healthy Learning series.