The personal trainer's handbook
Subtitle: manage your business, know your clients
By: Rebecca Weissbort
Series: Fitness professionals; Fitness professionals
Publisher: A. & C. Black
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780713675573
Subjects: Personal trainers; Handbooks, manuals
Description: "Whether you are newly qualified and looking for guidance on setting up your business or an established trainer looking for ideas to develop your company, this book will provide you with all the information you need. Your one-stop guide to running a personal training business, it includes: essential business skills - targeting your market, insurance, finances and marketing; dealing with clients - the first meeting, creating the right programme and typical client groups; how to deal with special client groups, such as diabetics, older clients and pregnant women." -back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Being a personal trainer; title: Ch. 1. Why be a personal trainer?; title: Ch. 2. Getting qualified and staying that way; title: Part Two. Running your business; title: Ch. 3. Starting up; title: Ch. 4. Marketing; title: Ch. 5. Looking after your clients; title: Ch. 6. Looking after yourself; title: Part Three. Training your clients; title: Ch. 7. Assessment and goal setting; title: Ch. 8. Designing a training programme; title: Ch. 9. Client groups; title: Ch. 10. Psychology and motivation.