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Published by the American College of Sports Medicine, this third edition continues to recognize the Personal Trainer as a professional in the continuum of creating healthy lifestyles. "ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer" provides the tools and scientific evidence needed to create safe and effective exercise programs. It also acts as the official preparation book for the ACSM Personal Trainer certification exam. Providing essential information for both beginning and experienced Personal Trainers, this text provides an introduction to the profession along with coverage of exercise physiology, biomechanics, anatomy, motor learning, and nutrition. The Personal Trainer will learn how to establish goals for clients and how to assess strength, flexibility, and risk as well as develop resistance, cardiorespiratory, and flexibility training programs.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Gotta have it
1 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you want to pass, you gotta have this book to prepare.
Can be kind of dry, could be better organized. On the whole, it does what it should.
Enjoy.
Can be kind of dry, could be better organized. On the whole, it does what it should.
Enjoy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great textbook for ACSM studying
30 Jan 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This textbook serves as a great starting place for studying for the ACSM test. It goes into more detail than the Review guide. I also took the 3 day workshop and with this book, it covers a lot of the testing topics.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Does what it should, but not enough on its own
24 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
Read this textbook cover-to-cover and then go through ACSM's Certification Review, and you should be fine on the CPT exam. This text can get pretty technical, but you don't need to memorize everything to do well on the exam.
I do not recommend this text for use as a reference guide if you work in a regular gym. The ACSM CPT exam is very clinical in nature and the information is geared towards use in a physical therapy/rehabilitation setting. For instance, even though the text highlights how use of free-weights is better than use of resistance machines, most of the exercises covered in the book are performed on resistance machines. I also know very few personal trainers who own a stethoscope and a BP cuff or who make regular use of VO2R calculations when making exercise prescriptions.
I do not recommend this text for use as a reference guide if you work in a regular gym. The ACSM CPT exam is very clinical in nature and the information is geared towards use in a physical therapy/rehabilitation setting. For instance, even though the text highlights how use of free-weights is better than use of resistance machines, most of the exercises covered in the book are performed on resistance machines. I also know very few personal trainers who own a stethoscope and a BP cuff or who make regular use of VO2R calculations when making exercise prescriptions.
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