NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training

NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training [Hardcover]

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Since 1987, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has been a global leader in providing evidence-based certifications and advanced credentials to health and fitness professionals. NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training, Fourth Edition, continues to lead the way by providing the most comprehensive resource for aspiring personal trainers and other health and fitness professionals.

Based on NASM’s proprietary Optimum Performance Training (OPT™) model, you will learn a systematic approach to program design with exercise program guidelines and variables; protocols for building stabilization, strength, and power programs; guidance on how to build a clientele through professional development; and more! By following the techniques in this book, you will gain the information, insight, and inspiration you need to change the world as a health and fitness professional.

This text is a recommended resource for the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification. The NASM CPT certification is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).

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• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: LWW; Fourth edition (June 2, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160831281X
• ISBN-13: 978-1608312818
• Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.8 x 11.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I hate this book. If I hadn't paid so much for it, and didn't need it to study for the NASM exam, I would put it in the bathroom and put it to a better use. Now, to be fair, although after 400 pages of enduring this tome, I am not in the mood to be fair, it has fabulous pictures and ideas for exercises. And at times, it also has some very good information on structuring a well-rounded approach, so you can glean information from it to be a better trainer. But way too often the writing is so terrible that the primary exercise of the moment is hair-pulling. Let's say you are an author trying to explain how to mow a lawn. But instead of calling the grass "grass," you insist that it be called "verdant agricultural production." That is how ridiculous the writing can be. One or more of the authors/editors thinks that a whole new language needs to be invented for exercise, so they coin terms and then do a terrible job of even explaining what they mean. And these terms are not ones you would ever use with a client (unless you are insecure and want to impress them that you are a "real pro"). Periodization, modality, acute variables? Give me a break! People complain all the time that "I can't understand what my doctor says." Is that the goal here? Let's confuse everyone and make them think we're more skilled and better educated than we are?

Then, you just plain get insulted at times. Example: On pages 346-7, they actually take the time to explain that an annual plan spans one year. Really? What else would it span? A canyon? And then they do the same thing for a month and a week...duh, I had no idea a week was seven days...and in the end they have written two useless pages.

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