Successful Fitness Motivation Strategies will teach you motivational strategies that will help you structure effective exercise programs for all of your clients. You will learn the tools to help non-exercisers, habitual exercisers, and clinical populations stick with and succeed in their fitness programs.
The concepts and underlying psychology of Successful Fitness Motivation Strategies are geared toward personal trainers, exercise instructors, and others working in fitness center settings. The book is also a solid resource for allied health professionals in physical therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, and other environments where exercise is prescribed for therapeutic purposes.
Author Barbara A. Brehm, EdD, has studied exercise motivation and adherence for 25 years as a professor and as a working fitness professional. She thoroughly examines the many factors that affect exercise adherence and provides fresh insight into how readers can use this knowledge to improve program design.
Written in an easy-to-understand style and solidly grounded in research, Successful Fitness Motivation Strategies features the following:
-Numerous applied examples help you understand and relate the concepts to personal experience.
-Narratives document how instructors have successfully used the strategies presented.
-Question-and-answer sections in each chapter address questions from real personal trainers and offer solutions to the real-life situations that personal trainers address daily.
Successful Fitness Motivation Strategies will help you to design and implement programs that benefit all of your clients and ultimately improve your effectiveness as a fitness professional.
Product Features
- Author(s): Barbara Brehm
- Published: 5-22-2004
- SHK00756
Fitness motivation at its best-says Eric Odera It was a pleasure for me to come across a book that helps fitness professionals with their motivation. A lot of times, we are called to offer fitness motivation of the highest caliber to our clients, and we often do an excellent job, and the problem is a lot of times we don’tÂ
From a personal trainer This is an excellent resource for those who work with people who desire fitness.Â
Anyone who works in the health and fitness biz should read!! Having been in the health and fitness industry for over 20 years, I recognize one of the disappointing truths about this business: due to no fault of your own, over half of your clientele will no longer be with you after six months have passed. It is sad, but it is true.Â