Part I: Starting, maintaining, and growing a successful personal training business
Ch. 1 Personal training: then, now, and into the future
Ch. 2 Breaking in: you (yes, you!) can be a personal trainer
Ch. 3 Starting and refining your business
Ch. 4 Getting-and keeping-clients
Ch. 5 Expanding your business
Ch. 7 Maintaining a service focus
Ch. 8 Legal and professional responsibilities
Ch. 9 Control your finances-and control your future
Part II: Foundations behind program design that works
Ch. 10 Gathering information (screening)
Ch. 11 Practical fitness testing and assessment
Ch. 12 Achieving goal-and people-oriented programming
Ch. 13 Periodization: a model for planned results
Ch. 14 Track your client's progress
Ch. 15 Science behind accurate exercise programs
Ch. 16 Right workout environment, right workout equipment
Part III: Program design: application that bridges theory to practice
Ch. 17 Gauging exercise intensity
Ch. 18 Cardiorespiratory conditioning programming
Ch. 19 Resistance training programming: a balanced approach
Ch. 20 Flexibility training: effective program design
Ch. 21 Fueling your clients: before, during, and after workouts
Ch. 22 Guiding clients toward healthy eating habits
Part IV: Working safely and effectively with special populations
Ch. 23 Managing cholesterol, HDL, LDL, high blood pressure, and heart disease
Ch. 24 Training the cardiac patient
Ch. 25 Diabetes mellitus: types 1 and 2
Ch. 26 Asthma and your client
Ch. 27 Arthritis: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid
Ch. 28 Working with older adults
Ch. 29 Training the pregnant client: a special healthy population
Ch. 30 Keep your personal and professional desire burning brightly
Ch. 31 Bringing personal training back to one on one.
