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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. 

Strongarm your way into the fitness industry

Interested in becoming a personal trainer? Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies is, obviously, the book you need. Even if you know nothing about this career path and industry, this book will guide you through the basics and take you all the way through certification and getting your first job. We’re here to enlighten you on what’s involved in a personal training career and teach you everything you need to know to become certified. This updated edition covers current information on topics like social media, wearable technology, outdoor and virtual training, and newer workouts like CrossFit, Active Aging, and more.

• Learn what it’s like to be a personal trainer and discover if this career is for you
• Distinguish the different types of personal training
• Get the latest on wearable technology and other tricks of the trade
• Know what to expect when getting your certification and searching for jobs or clients

Authored by a longtime fit pro who knows personal training inside and out, Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies shares expert insights in a fun, digestible way.

How To Become A Personal Trainer (Successful)
Did you know the average personal trainer in 2020 was self-taught? This means that YOU could become a CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER within 28-days (we have done it.) ALL BY YOURSELF! Many trainers at the top personal training gyms in the United States are charging $100+ per hour and most of them have never trained another human being. Just because someone uses an ambiguous acronym (i.e. NASM, ISSA, ACE) does not make them qualified to teach and train the mechanics of the human body. Regardless – did you know that the average personal trainer doesn’t understand anatomy (17-muscles around the shoulder, 30-around the hip), the fundamental principles of movement, programming, SAID, bioenergetics, or how to regress or progress exercises? Does that make sense to you? Us either. Just because these people have a six pack of abs and backside from Venus packaged up with a certification, it does not mean they are qualified to teach how to properly move and exercise another human. You heard it first from Show Up Fitness: Certifications are Blockbuster, Internships are Netflix. If you want to be respected and turn your passion for fitness into a career, you need a solid foundation in anatomy, programming, business & social media development, and guided experience.
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 industry’s entry standards for what they are—RIDICULOUSLY EASY. The average personal trainer takes a simple 120-question test and then considers themselves a “fitness professional” – imagine the gasps if a heart surgeon did the same thing? The majority of social media “instafamous” personal trainers have no idea what they are doing, and people are getting hurt because they lack education and guided experience. Add to this that 90% of personal trainers quit within 12-months of getting certified -WHY YOU ASK? Read this book and find out.
How to Become A Successful Personal Trainer will help you turn your passion for fitness into a career and help you become a qualified fitness professional.

How to Become A Successful Personal Trainer
1- Personal training industry, certifications & internships
2- The Average Day in the Life of a Trainer
3- H.E.L.P. N.I.C.K. & Commandments of Becoming A Successful Personal Trainer
4- Interviews from Managers on why 90% of certified trainers quit within 12-months
5- How to Make 100k & Develop Streams of Revenue
6- The Trainer Happiness Equation
7- Interviews from Top Personal Trainers

Chris Hitchko, BS Kinesiology, CSCS, has personally taught over 800-personal trainers and knows the formula for success in the fitness industry. Throughout his sixteen-year tenure, he’s collaborated with top trainers, professors, coaches, physical therapists, dietitians, and doctors, which allowed him to develop a Board of Education to make sure the material and scientific information is up to date.
Here are just a few of the worlds TOP Personal Trainers interviewed for this book:
Bret Contreras, Brett Bartholomew, Meghan Callaway, Nick Tumminello, Dean Somerset, Erica Suter, Dan John, Tony Gentilcore, Kellie Davies, John Rusin, Ben Bruno, Jordan Syatt, Marc Megna, Charles Staley, Eric Bach, and many more!

Weight Training For Dummies makes it easy to get started with weight training by offering trusted and straightforward guidance on the latest circuit and resistance training, and all-new information on the highly popular bodyweight and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Whether you're working with dumbbells, free weight sets, or machines, you'll find out how to combine weight training with other exercise to properly strength train and get in the best shape of your life.

Along with aerobic exercise and flexibility, body weight training is an integral part of a complete physical activity program. But with all the different equipment and techniques available, getting started can feel overwhelming. Want to get pumped about weight training? Consider these facts: strength training, whether via free weights or a machine, builds muscle. And the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism and the less prone you are to injuries―in and out of the gym. Plus, strength training promotes bone strength, which can significantly reduce your odds of developing osteoporosis. If that's not enough, strength training―unlike cardio workouts like running―reaps benefits almost immediately. So what are you waiting for? Weight Training For Dummies has everything you need to get started.

• Provides examples and directions for powerful 20-minute weight training routines for the time challenged
• Features advice to help you choose a weight training system that you enjoy and that fits into your lifestyle
• Includes new coverage devoted to warm-ups and the hottest and most beneficial stretches
• Introduces using weight training to address specific health or orthopedic conditions

Whether you're already in the gym several times a week or are just starting out with a fitness routine, Weight Training For Dummies shows you how to use free weights or weight machines to get results―fast.

Anatomy of Exercise is revolutionary for its insights into how different muscles of the body actually work during exercise. The book is organized by body area and shows common sequences in the progression of a typical workout. Lifelike anatomical illustrations demonstrate each exercise and reveal in colorful detail exactly which muscles are engaged, which are being conditioned and how those muscles respond.

The following features help the reader gain the greatest benefit from each exercise and thereby improve fitness and well-being:

• Detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations for all the exercises
• Annotations identifying the active and stabilizing muscles
• Concise how-to instructions for each exercise
• Identification of the specific muscles that benefit the most from each exercise
• Suggested modifications for different levels of difficulty
• Instructions on stabilizing the body throughout each movement
• A visual index of exercises that allows easy navigation through the book
• A glossary of anatomical terms.

No other book provides such rich detail tailored to the general reader. Beginners, those already committed to exercise, competing athletes, trainers, coaches, physiotherapists, massage therapists and the many others involved in fitness will find Anatomy of Exercise fascinating, instructive and practical.

Get an in-depth look into the most magnificent machine ever created—the human body!

• Over 100 anatomical illustrations of 70 muscles in action, detailed and in full color
• Over 75 exercises to increase your flexibility and strength
• Expert instructions for exercises for strength training and gym fitness, stretching and flexibility training, yoga, Pilates, and bodybuilding
• Learn how each exercise works and understand how it shapes the body, with the science of movement, training concepts, and fitness principles
• Perfect for beginners and advanced fitness practitioners alike, this is the must-have exercise reference for fitness enthusiasts

Using detailed anatomical illustrations, New Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training provides you with visual insight into what happens to the human organic machine during exercise—muscles and tendons working in concert to strengthen your body's building blocks.

With this basic knowledge of how the body works, you can buff up your body with the book's 75+ exercises, grouped by body region and involving gym machines, free weights, and body weight/stretching, as well as yoga and Pilates. Included are comparisons of contemporary training options from CrossFit and P90X to Zumba, SoulCycle, TRX, Orangetheory, and more.

Each exercise is vividly illustrated by a full-color anatomical illustration of the targeted muscles, together with instructions on execution and technique. By understanding how your body responds to each movement, you'll be able to isolate specific muscle groups and design the most targeted program possible.

Motivate yourself and make your workouts more powerful and effective by seeing how your muscles actually work when you exercise with safe and proper form!

"New Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training is clearly written and designed with highly instructive illustrations. A powerful resource for novice and advanced fitness enthusiasts alike, this book is the Bible of strength and fitness training. It is empowering, and should be in every home and commercial gym."
—Allan Richter, Editor, Discover Life and Energy Times magazines

Retain outstanding talent with a successful training and development program

One of the best ways to retain great talent in your business is to deliver a strong training and development program―and this book gives you the tools to do just that. Featuring the latest strides in talent development, such as social learning, hybrid training, creating videos, and more, it arms you with everything you need to upskill employees to be more effective, productive, satisfied, and loyal.

• Develop a robust training and development program
• Foster a supportive and innovative work environment
• Use mentoring, coaching, and informal learning effectively
• Align learning to your organization’s needs

Engage your employees with a motivating training program using the helpful guidance in Training & Development For Dummies!

"A look at personal training that goes beyond the textbooks." - Muscle & Fitness

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.

HAVE YOU EVER wanted to know the best, high-integrity techniques to get more clients, run a fitness business, or have a solid system for selling personal training?

You're not alone. For years Jon's been asked these questions so he read, watched, researched and interviewed the best in the world to compile Ignite the Fire. This powerful book for certified personal trainers will show you how to:

• Find your dream job in the fitness industry (pg 26)
• Find, market to, and sell your ideal client while seamlessly dealing with objections (pg 64)
• Build amazing workouts for beginners (pg 124)
• Deal with difficult client types (pg 160)
• Develop multiple income streams while maintaining your reputation (pg 202)

Ignite the Fire provides a clear road map to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income.

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• Easy-to-Follow ➡️ Practice Test Very Similar to Actual Exam!

• 🥇 Highly Recommended by NASM Certified Trainers ⚖️

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