| | |  | Loss Prevention | Home » » ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer (American College/Sports Medici) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | 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. This edition features a new section dedicated exclusively to Behavior Modification and new and updated color photographs. Important concepts are now highlighted for easy review and reference. A companion website offers student and faculty resources including fully searchable online text, an Image Bank, PowerPoint slides, a Test Generator, and Lesson Plans.
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| American College of Sports Medicine | | Hardcover:
| 544 pages | | Publisher:
| Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | | Publication Date:
| September 29, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0781797721 | | Product Length:
| 11.23 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.44 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.12 inches | | Product Weight:
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Gotta have itFeb 01, 2010
By Ken Chappell
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.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great textbook for ACSM studyingJan 30, 2010
By Daily Lamma
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 found the following review helpful:
Does what it should, but not enough on its ownJan 24, 2012
By Fancy Pants
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.
Gotta have it BUT it Needs an EditorApr 05, 2012
By L. Drum
The book is stuffed full of good, vital information but as a certified nit picker it's real hard to get past all the errors. I've only read through about page 50 and have noticed 4 different illustration with the wrong titles or captions. When you're told a certain figure is the tendon locations and it's really the bones it's bit confusing and on the next page the tendon map is labeled bones.
Same issue with muscles and surface landmark illustrations for the forearm. I've also tried to find an errata for this edition with no luck.
The book is dry as others have noted. It is very clinical in nature and not for someone looking for a fast track to certification. At the end of this book I'm sure I'll be ready for the next one. I'm also pretty sure I'll have a new understanding for human anatomy.
Overall a very necessary book on the long road to ACSM certification. You just need to be aware there are some editing issues. I can only give it 4 stars.
exactly itMar 29, 2012
By Dani
i am in class and purchased this book used- great condition and I was very happy, i suggest all do this
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