Love helping other people improve their physical fitness? Become a certified trainer, start your own business, and grow your client base with this user-friendly and practical guide Want to turn your passion for fitness into a lucrative career? Each year, more than 5 million Americans use personal trainers to take their workouts to the next level—and this plain-English guide shows you how to get in on the action. Whether you want a part-time job at the gym or a full-time personal training business, you’ll find the practical, proven advice you need in Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies. If you want to become a certified personal trainer and start your own business—or if you’re a certified trainer looking to grow your existing practice—you’re in the right place. This practical guide has a thorough overview of what it takes to get certified and run a successful business, complete with expert tips that help you: Find your training niche Study for and pass certification exams Attract, keep, and motivate clients Interview, hire, and manage employees Update your training skills Expand your services A user-friendly guide with unique coverage of personal trainer certification programs, Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies includes tips on selecting the right program and meeting the requirements. You’ll learn to develop your training identity as well as practice invaluable skills that will make you a great personal trainer. Inside you’ll discover how to: Choose the right fitness equipment, for you and your clients Create a business plan, a record-keeping system, and a marketing campaign Perform fitness assessments Develop individualized exercise programs Advance your clients to the next fitness level Manage legal issues and tax planning Train clients with special needs Complete with ten ideas to expand your services (such as adding workshops or selling equipment or apparel) and a list of professional organizations and resources, Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies gives you the tools you need to be the best personal trainer you can be. Grab your own copy to get the most out of this fun, fabulous career.

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.

The ideal handbook for those embarking on a career in personal training as well as experienced trainers looking to develop new skills and stay up-to-date with the latest methods.

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This isn't a book on how to get clients, or a shortcut to becoming a celebrity trainer. It's an honest approach on what to expect if you're thinking of becoming a personal trainer and to expose the fitness industries entry standards for what they are-RIDICULOUSLY TOO EASY. Did you know the average personal trainer takes a simple 120-question test and then considers themselves a "fitness professional?" The majority of social media "instafamous" personal trainers have no idea what they are doing and people are getting hurt because trainers lack education. The average personal trainer quits within the first couple of years, why? How To Become A Successful Personal Trainer will answer all of these questions and help prepare you to become the best. Roadmap on How to Become A Successful Personal Trainer:1- The Truth About the Personal Training Industry-Certifications vs. Education2- The Average Day in the Life of a Trainer (Business Aspects of Becoming a Personal Trainer)3- How to Get Interviewed and Hired at a Corporate Gym (Equinox/Crunch/24 Hour Fitness)4- How to Make 75k as a Personal Trainer (The Benchmark for Happiness)5- Interviews from Top Personal TrainersThe Show Up Fitness Academy has a Board of Education with top trainers, PhD's, and doctors, along with a four-month internship. Chris Hitchko has graduated over 700-personal trainers and knows the formula to become successful in the fitness industry. Throughout his twelve-year tenure, he's collaborated with top trainers, professors, nutritionists, and doctors, which allowed him to develop a Board of Education to make sure the material and scientific information is up-to-date. The Show Up Fitness Personal Training Academy Board of Education: Professor Jason Cholewa, PhD Exercise Science, Coastal Carolina; Layne Norton, PhD Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois; John Rusin, Doctorate in Physical Therapy; Dean Somerset, CSCS; Dr. Chris Perry, MD; Joel Seedman, PhD, University of Georgia.

This books is "the most comprephensive and authoritative resource for you as a personal trainer, whether you are a newcomer to the field or have a well-established business. The book is truly a complete resource - it's full of information about working with clients and designing programs, and it's a practical guide to all aspects of the personal training business. .... [It] will help you in all aspects of your profession: learn applicable information on fitness testing and assessment ; identify your clients' goals and create fitness tests specifically for them ; learn how to develop cardiovascular, strength and flexibility training programs ; properly train and help special populations ; understand the business side of personal training, including marketing yourself as a trainer, getting and retaining clients, and learning time management ; learn how to expand your business." - back cover.

Now in a revised, expanded, and upgraded edition, Ignite the Fire is the highly practical approach to personal training already relied on by thousands of trainers Worldwide. Repeatedly called one of the "best books for personal trainers", it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer, to getting a personal trainer certification, to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income. --