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Informationen zum Autor Debbie Lawrence is a consultant and writer for the health and fitness industry and has over 30 years' experience as a fitness professional and educator. She is a qualified integrative counselor, a student of yoga and has a special interest in mental health and well-being. She has written a number of qualification and training resources for some of the leading awarding and training organisations in the sector, including: CYQ, The Open University, Active IQ, Yfit, VTCT and EDI. Bob Hope was a physical trainer in the Royal Navy for 23 years before becoming a YMCA tutor and lecturer. Klappentext There are around 60,000 qualified gym instructors and personal trainers in the UK alone, with several thousand more qualifying each year. The Register of Exercise Professionals' (REPs) Level 3 qualification is seen as the principal goal for all instructors, and a key part of this is advanced circuit training. Fitness Professionals: Advanced Circuit Training is the advanced companion to the definitive Fitness Professionals: Circuit Training . Building on the basics of the first book, this new title is the only book in the market that specifically deals with more complex and innovative circuit methods - including kettlebell exercises, boxercise and increasingly popular 'boot camp' military-style exercise - and which actively helps trainers in the industry achieve their professional qualifications. Using step-by-step guidance to planning and coordinating sessions and illustrated by quality photographs, Advanced Circuit Training is written in accordance with REPs national standards for Level 3. Vorwort Building on the basics of Fitness Professionals: Circuit Training , this is the only book in the market that specifically deals with more complex and innovative circuit methods, and which actively helps trainers in the industry achieve professional qualifications. Zusammenfassung Building on the basics of Fitness Professionals: Circuit Training,this is the only book in the market that specifically deals with morecomplex and innovative circuit methods, and which actively helpstrainers in the industry achieve professional qualifications. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: FITNESS GOALS 1 Principles and variables for progressive training2 Cardiovascular fitness3 Flexibility training4 Muscular fitness (strength and endurance)5 Motor fitness PART TWO: SESSION STRUCTURE AND PROGRAMME DESIGN 6 Advanced warm-ups (with illustrations of dynamic stretches)7 Advanced cool downs (with illustrations of partners stretches)8 Seasonal training9 Periodisation PART THREE: SKILLS, DRILLS AND SAFETY 10 Skill and learning11 Advanced circuit drills and design12 Safety considerations PART FOUR: ADVANCED HARDCORE CIRCUITS 13 Kettlebell training with exercises14 Medicine ball training with exercises15 Sandbag training with exercises (power bags and X bags)16 Sledgehammer training with exercises17 Rubber tyre training with exercises18 Rope climbing and exercises 19 Telegraph pole/gym bench training List of abbreviations References and recommended further reading Acknowledgements ...
