Fitness Professional's Handbook-6th Edition 6th Edition

I absolutely love this textbook! At first I was a bit skeptical about purchasing it because of all the bad reviews that I read but I had to buy it anyways because I need it for a personal training class that I'm taking. I see nothing wrong with this book. A lot of people say that it was a very complex reading but I disagree. Maybe my background is a reason that I have no problem retaining this information because I am in college and I've taken a few health classes. For anyone that has any background knowledge in health this book should be pretty easy for you to read.

This book will help you as you are building your career as a professional trainer. You will need to do a great deal of learning and practicing and once you are on your way, this book is an extremely important tool in your profession. There are so many important parts to this journey that you do not want to miss out on having this book as a baseline of where you started to build from! Great resource!

Perfect for my personal training schooling and great for reference when I need to check basics and keep up with things.

I purchased the Fitness Professionals Handbook 6th Edition for a Personal Trainer Certification course. It was mandatory. I was determined to dislike this book before I even opened it. Before the class started I opened it to chapter nine. It was about the vertebrae. I was fascinated and hooked.The class went well and the text was helpful in many ways. I have to say that much of it was beyond my level but I persevered and made the best of it. I can see this book becoming more valuable to me as my training career develops.

This book provides a great overview of many topics leading up to the actual exercise program, such as assessing the physical abilities of an individual. It also provides a great number of metrics for measuring performance. Unfortunately I'm not that keen on metrics or data gathering. If you're working the client hard enough the results will be plainly visible. Also this book really doesn't go into much detail as far as the nuts and bolts of an exercise program are concerned. Its a good starting point, but nothing beats experience.

Got this for my husband for Christmas and he uses it all the time. He is big time in fitness and loves he can look up anything. Does still use the internet, but the book is out all the time too. Has lots of info and indepth into what your looking for. Not just a quick refernce to excerise.

Certainly, an essential tool for anyone in the fitness profession. Presents a comprehensive approach for a personal trainer. Needs to be on the shelf of any serious trainer.

This book is college material reading and comprehension. It goes well the WITS PERSONAL TRAINER COURSE. If you are taking that course, buy the book. Read it and study the material. I highly recommend this book and I find that it has enough anatomy and physiology for anyone.