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Resistance Training Instruction Resistance Training Instruction
About the Product
A video clip from each video is available on the individual video product pages. Links to those pages are at the bottom of this page.
Resistance training is fast becoming the most popular exercise in the world. More and more people want to experience firsthand the benefits of a good resistance training program: building muscle, preventing and rehabilitating injuries, fighting disease, and improving the way people look and feel. It's your role as a personal trainer to help your clients achieve those benefits.
This can only happen if your clients perform the exercises correctly. In fact, using improper technique not only dramatically reduces the potential gains, it also increases the risk of injury. Yet despite all the information now available on fitness assessment, exercise prescription, physiological adaptations, and other aspects of resistance training, until now there's been no reliable source for up-to-date, biomechanically sound information on proper exercise form and technique.
That's why Resistance Training Instruction is so important. Written specifically to help you learn the safest, most effective way to perform resistance training exercises, the book shows you the proper technique for 73 exercises that target every major muscle group. Its clear approach and exceptional presentation set this book apart from anything else on the market. To help you isolate the targeted muscles and ensure proper mechanics, it provides important visual cues and helpful pointers for each exercise.
Step-by-step instructions for setup and technique
Photos showing the correct start/finish and mid-point positions
Detailed illustrations showing which muscles should be used in each exercise
Expert tips on positioning and working with the client
Author Everett Aaberg, an expert on resistance training, also provides valuable information on selecting and combining the exercises to form programs that are appropriate for each client's abilities and goals. He explains how to use science and physiology to determine specific program variables, such as sets, repetitions, tempos, recovery, and progression. He also presents several sample programs.
With Resistance Training Instruction, you can be confident that you're helping your clients get the maximum gains from resistance training.
VIDEO SERIES
Developed and hosted by resistance-training expert Everett Aaberg, the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series walks trainers through the steps of instructing clients during resistance training. The videos demonstrate the proper techniques for the participant and proper instructional methods for the fitness professional.
The three videos, which cover the lower body, trunk, and upper body, allow trainers to watch and learn the proper exercise and training techniques for all of the exercises in the book Resistance Training Instruction and many more exercises not included in the book.
Targeted muscles are identified for each exercise, providing trainers with information about functional anatomy. Plus, a time-coded program log makes it easy to find specific exercises.
Resistance Training Instruction: Lower Body demonstrates exercises from the hip down. Since the hip's primary function is to work with the knee and ankle during compound movements, numerous variations of squats, presses, and lunges are presented. Several exercises that isolate lower-body movements are also included, as these more specific exercises may be equally important for accomplishing a variety of goals.
Resistance Training Instruction: Trunk focuses on strengthening and developing the trunk and core muscles. The core muscles, or "inner unit," work interdependently with the outer abdominal and oblique musculature to stabilize the spine and produce a variety of movements. The video demonstrates how to correctly perform and instruct numerous resistance and Swiss ball exercises to strengthen the core muscles and trunk region.
Resistance Training Instruction: Upper Body begins with an examination of how the shoulder girdle is designed to function during an upper-body exercise. The video then demonstrates exercises that focus on the larger pushing and pulling movements. Pushing and pressing exercises that target the chest, anterior deltoid, and associated triceps are presented at several angles with numerous variations. Dumbbell presses, barbell presses, cable presses, machine presses, and Swiss ball even presses and push-offs are demonstrated in this video. Many types of pulling and rowing exercises and variations are also demonstrated and are divided according to their associated joint movement.
With the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series, you will learn how to teach resistance training so that your clients use the proper techniques to get the most out of their exercises.
About the Author
Everett Aaberg has been both a teacher and practitioner of resistance training for over 15 years. He is the director of education and personal training for International Athletic Club Management in Dallas and was named the 2001 IDEA International Personal Trainer of the Year. He’s also a national presenter and consultant for several fitness organizations and health clubs around the country. He is an instructor for a specialty certification course titled The Biomechanics of Resistance Training at the world-renowned Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research.
Aaberg holds a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and recreation management with continuing education credits in exercise physiology, anatomy, kinesiology, biomechanics, and nutrition. He is a resistance-training specialist and a certified personal trainer through some of the most highly accredited organizations in the United States, including the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He’s also a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Aaberg has extensive practical experience in resistance training. He has instructed and trained thousands of athletes, fitness enthusiasts, coaches, fitness instructors, and personal trainers. Plus, he has used resistance training throughout his life for health and fitness as well as for preparation for a variety of sports and athletic competitions. He was an academic All-American in football and has won several state and national powerlifting championships and bodybuilding titles, including AAU and NPC Mr. Colorado titles and the Mr. Junior America title in his class. Aaberg lives and trains in Dallas, Texas.
NOTE: This is nonreturnable product and all purchases are final.
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