Advanced Circuit Training: A Complete Guide to Progressive Planning and Instructing

by Richard (Bob) Hope, Debbie Lawrence

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472980410
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Series:	Fitness Professionals
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.34(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Debbie Lawrence is a highly regarded fitness professional and author of several books by A&C

Black. She writes learning resources and training manuals for a number of training organisations and award bodies, and delivers a variety of personal and professional development training programmes through

Advance Resources & Training. She is an External Verifier for

Central YMCA Qualifications, a qualified counsellor and a college lecturer on PGCE, BTEC and CYQ programmes. Bob Hope was a physical trainer in the Royal Navy for 23 years before becoming a YMCA tutor and lecturer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements iv

Introduction vi

Part 1 Fitness Goals 1

1 Principles and variables for progressive training 1

2 Cardiovascular fitness 12

3 Flexibility training 25

4 Muscular fitness (strength and endurance) 36

5 Motor fitness 54

Part 2 Session Structure and Programme Design 59

6 Advanced warm-ups (with illustrations of dynamic stretches) 61

7 Advanced cool downs (with illustrations of partner stretches) 69

8 Seasonal training 73

9 Periodisation 75

Part 3 Skills, Drills and Safety 81

10 Skill and learning 82

11 Advanced circuit drills and design 90

12 Safety considerations 101

Part 4 Advanced Hardcore Circuits 105

13 Kettlebell training with exercises 106

14 Medicine ball training with exercises 123

15 Sandbag training with exercises (power bags and × bags) 136

16 Sledgehammer training with exercises 152

17 Rubber tyre training with exercises 159

18 Rope climbing with exercises 163

19 Telegraph pole/gym bench training 170

List of abbreviations 177

References and recommended further reading 178

Index 180