Beat the Gym


Book Description

A professional trainer gives a step-by-step tour of the gym, explaining all of the equipment and classes and providing a way to design a personal workout.




Ignite the Fire


Book Description

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. --




Everybody Needs Training


Book Description

Does Anyone Else Want to Be a Highly Successful Personal Trainer-And Truly Live Your Dream? Most folk who embark on a career as a trainer, do so initially out of a personal passion for fitness and a strong desire to help other achieve results. Be it weight loss, conditioning, strength gains, flexibility or enhanced performance. But a passion for working out and an earnest desire to help others-alone-does not a successful personal trainer make. The sad fact is that the turn over rate for personal trainers after one year is over 80%. Why? It''s almost always because the trainer didn''t have a proper understanding of the BUSINESS of being a fitness professional. The bottom line is that without the appropriate success blueprint, the most skilled and knowledgeable personal trainer is usually doomed to failure. Unfortunately, until now, there has been no such battle-tested blueprint available either to the novice trainer or the professional struggling to stay alive. Now, however that''s all changed, thanks to Danny Kavadlo''s Everybody Needs Training. Follow the hard-earned wisdom within these pages and failure will no longer be an option. Danny Kavadlo''s training helped me to discover strengths I never knew I had, and I can take those lessons with me wherever I go, for the rest of my life. The wisdom and insight contained in Everybody Needs Training not only relates to being a successful fitness trainer, but can be applied for peace and success in many of life''s ventures. Danny is the best!-ELIZABETH GILBERT, #1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Eat, Pray, Love. One of TIME Magazine''s 100 Most Influential People in the World Everybody Needs Training is quite ''something.'' I don''t think I have ever seen this kind of depth in the field. It''s both obvious and ''wow'' as you read it. Amazing stuff. It fills a gap in the community that, frankly, surprises me no one has really filled.-DAN JOHN, author, Never Let Go Christmas wishes DO come true.Danny Kavadlo has written a training book! Imagine if you could squeeze all the hard-earned wisdom, secrets and tactics of one of the world''s hottest personal trainers between the covers of a beautifully illustrated tell-all manual, and you have imagined Everybody Needs Training. Like Danny himself, this groundbreaking book is incredibly smart, brutally honest, laugh-out-loud funny, and totally out of left fieldif you train others (casually or professionally), want a career training others, or if you just love the now-famous Kavadlo approach to getting in shape, you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of this masterpiece. I cannot recommend it highly enough.-PAUL WADE, author of Convict Conditioning Danny Kavadlo strikes the right tone: if you are built for it, personal training is one hell-of-a-satisfying career: do it right and you are literally transforming people''s bodies and lives. So if you think you''re built for it and considering jumping into the shark tank of personal training, Everybody Needs Training will be invaluable. And the tattooed Gonzo vibe is priceless.-MARTY GALLAGHER, author of The Purposeful Primitive, 3-time World Masters Powerlifting Champion Danny Kavadlo has personally helped me become a more successful trainer and coach. I cannot recommend Everybody Needs Training enough. It''s the best book I''ve ever seen on the subject of being a professional trainer.-ADEL GABER, World Class Trainer & 3-Time Olympic Wrestling Coach Everybody Needs Training is a must-read for every personal trainer wanting to take it to the next level, and everyone who has ever dreamed of becoming a personal trainer. This book allows you to get inside the genius PT mind of Danny Kavadlo, a master of his craft, speaking off the cuff to you about training-priceless!-ERRICK MCADAMS, Personal Trainer, Model, Fitness Personality A solid collection of tried-and-true best practices that can help personal trainers on any level reach their full potential in their chosen field. -ROLANDO GARCIA, RKC II, CK-FMS




The Secret Of Personal Training


Book Description

The Secret Of Personal Training is a holistic guide that helps channel your focus on finding the power within you to master yourself and your fitness training career. This book incorporates the law of attraction philosophy and a holistic spiritual approach to attain a thriving personal training career, build long-lasting friendships, increase your salary, and gain abundance in every area of your life. With this book, the reader will learn how to cultivate their hidden power, discipline the mind, and enhance the spirit that helps fulfill their major purpose in life—assisting others in becoming healthier and growing stronger.




How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Personal Training Business


Book Description

Book & CD-ROM. The manual delivers literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to operate streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, you will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in your daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web site resources, and operating and cost cutting ideas that can be easily applied to your operation. The Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word (tm).




Secrets of Successful Program Design


Book Description

Your success as a fitness professional depends on your ability to reliably deliver results to clients. In Secrets of Successful Program Design: A How-To Guide for Busy Fitness Professionals, noted fitness and program design expert Alwyn Cosgrove and his director of programming, Craig Rasmussen, share Alwyn’s proven system for creating programs that take clients from where they are to where they want to be. You’ll learn how to properly assess a client and design the most effective program based on their individual goal—whether that is fat loss, muscle and strength building, or improved overall conditioning. You’ll also learn how to customize the training experience of your client on the fly, effectively progressing and regressing exercises according to day-to-day fluctuations in abilities and needs. This will ensure you are delivering the best results possible for each client every time they train. This guide to building training programs is supplemented with a selection of predesigned workouts that will draw on your skills for progressing and regressing exercises, saving you valuable time and energy while still allowing you to produce a personalized experience for your client. A reliable system-based approach to program design that consistently delivers results to every client—regardless of demographic profile, ability, or goals—will set your training business up for success in the incredibly competitive fitness market. Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.




High-Intensity 300


Book Description

If you’re tired of the same old workouts and less-than-spectacular results, you’ll be excited to know you’ve found the remedy to your situation. In fact, you’ve found 300 of them! High-Intensity 300 is the ultimate workout guide. Featuring 300 of the most effective and challenging workouts, it’s packed with programs that push you to your limit and maximize results. Each workout includes detailed instruction, photos, and training tips as well as variations for types of equipment and difficulty level. Best of all, each workout is designed to be completed in 30 minutes. Challenge yourself with a different workout each day, or take a more focused approach and target goals, such as increasing muscle mass, shedding fat, or maximizing performance. The choice is yours. And just when you think you’ve done it all, High-Intensity 300 finishes with 40 of the toughest workouts. Pulling together the most intense movements, exercises, and sequences throughout the book, this series of 30-minute challenges is for serious warriors and extreme athletes only. Whether you are looking to ramp up the intensity of your workout, add variety and excitement to a ho-hum routine, or push yourself to the extremes of strength, fitness, or performance, High-Intensity 300 has it all—and much, much more.




How to Be an Awesome Personal Trainer


Book Description

This book is all about making you the best possible practitioner you can possibly be, an AWESOME Personal Trainer. Inspire greater change in your clients, have a better work-life balance, get better results, achieve greater job satisfaction and become more successful.




The Wealthy Fit Pro's Guide to Starting Your Career


Book Description

Welcome to The Wealthy Fit Pro Guides, the indispensable new resources for personal trainers ready to take their careers to a new level. One by one, each guide will help you achieve more freedom, better pay, fulfilling days, and growing recognition from fellow fitness pros. Book one, Starting Your Career, is the perfect launching pad for this series - and your success. With Jonathan Goodman's trademark straight-talk about navigating the fitness industry, you'll find everything you need to become the best trainer you can be after getting your personal trainer certification. Here you'll learn how to... -Land the perfect job -Attract and keep more clients -Engage next-level marketing skills to set yourself apart -Tap the no-fail secret to motivating clients -Become a star programmer -Consistently grow and improve -And more




NASM Study Guide


Book Description

NASM Study Guide: NASM Personal Training Book & Exam Prep for the National Academy of Sports Medicine CPT Test Developed for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the NASM-CPT Exam, this comprehensive study guide includes: -Quick Overview -Test-Taking Strategies -Introduction -Basic and Applied Sciences and Nutritional Concepts -Assessment -Program Design -Exercise Technique and Training Instruction -Client Relations and Behavioral Coaching -Professional Development and Responsibility -Practice Questions -Detailed Answer Explanations Each section of the test has a comprehensive review that goes into detail to cover all of the content likely to appear on the NASM-CPT Exam. The practice test questions are each followed by detailed answer explanations. If you miss a question, it's important that you are able to understand the nature of your mistake and how to avoid making it again in the future. The answer explanations will help you to learn from your mistakes and overcome them. Understanding the latest test-taking strategies is essential to preparing you for what you will expect on the exam. A test taker has to not only understand the material that is being covered on the test, but also must be familiar with the strategies that are necessary to properly utilize the time provided and get through the test without making any avoidable errors. Anyone planning to take the NASM-CPT Exam should take advantage of the review material, practice test questions, and test-taking strategies contained in this study guide.