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

by Richard (Bob) Hope, Debbie Lawrence

Overview

Fitness Professionals: Advanced Circuit Training is the advanced companion to the definitive Fitness Professionals: Circuit Training.

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.

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:	9781408195659
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/24/2015
Series:	Fitness Professionals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	44 MB
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About the Author

Debbie Lawrence is a highly regarded fitness professional and author of several books. 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 has been involved in exercise and fitness as a sports coach for over 30 years and spent 23 years in the Royal Navy as a PT instructor, before joining the YMCA as a tutor, lecturing in exercise and fitness at Levels 2 and 3.
Bob Hope was a physical trainer in the Royal Navy for 23 years before becoming a YMCA tutor and lecturer.
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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: FITNESS GOALS
1 Principles and variables for progressive training
2 Cardiovascular fitness
3 Flexibility training
4 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 training
9 Periodisation

PART THREE: SKILLS, DRILLS AND SAFETY
10 Skill and learning
11 Advanced circuit drills and design
12 Safety considerations

PART FOUR: ADVANCED HARDCORE CIRCUITS
13 Kettlebell training with exercises
14 Medicine ball training with exercises
15 Sandbag training with exercises (power bags and X bags)
16 Sledgehammer training with exercises
17 Rubber tyre training with exercises
18 Rope climbing and exercises
19 Telegraph pole/gym bench training

List of abbreviations
References and recommended further reading
Acknowledgements