Client Centered Exercise Prescription or Pumped

Client-Centered Exercise Prescription

Author: John C Griffin

Client-Centered Exercise Prescription, Second Edition, will help fitness professionals listen to their clients, assess their interests, and prescribe exercise that will work for them. The text maintains the first edition's focus on the individual by discarding the "one-program-fits-all" blueprint and emphasizing instead a personalized approach in which unique programs are designed to meet the interests and needs of each client.

This edition is extensively revised, with substantial new material on activity counseling, client motivation, and step-by-step prescription models, which are directly linked to program design. The models facilitate fitness professionals' ability to make informed, client-centered decisions and address the following issues:

* Establishing rapport and increasing adherence by prescribing exercise programs that match clients' desires, needs, and lifestyles
* Understanding clients' unique psychological needs and using that information to keep them motivated and on track
* Integrating principles and strategies for client-centered assessment and prescription that will enable fitness professionals to address and monitor clients' needs both as they are originally presented and as they evolve over time
* Detailing the competencies of exercise demonstration, design modification, and follow-up monitoring
* Applying strategies for treating and preventing overuse injuries so that clients avoid injury and frustration, thereby avoiding withdrawal from the program

The models in Client-Centered Exercise Prescription, Second Edition, include activity counseling, cardiovascular conditioning, resistance training, weight management, exercise design, and program demonstration and modification, as well as the much-neglected area of assessment and treatment for muscle balance. The text explains the vital role that muscle balance plays in maintaining musculoskeletal health and teaches how to recognize and treat muscle imbalance before it causes serious damage. Reproducible worksheets-ranging from informational forms for clients to checklists and prescription cards for professionals-facilitate the use of the models to make exercise prescription easy and precise. Illustrated handouts of stretches and exercises for specific injuries are also included. These exercises can be incorporated into the client's program, and the handouts can be photocopied for clients to use as a guide for properly performing the exercises at home.

The second edition of Client-Centered Exercise Prescription is an outstanding resource for all professionals and students interested in learning to prescribe exercise for each client's unique and changing needs. To help students grasp the concepts presented, many pedagogical aids, sidebars, and checklists have been added. Competencies are listed at the beginning of each chapter, and icons in the margins identify the information crucial for the certified personal trainer program certification of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP-CPT). The upgrades to the text also include extensive illustrations, examples, and case studies that demonstrate the practical application of concepts so that students can use them in real-life situations. The result is a text that clearly presents a unique, personalized approach to prescribing exercise and to helping clients adopt, enjoy, and maintain active lifestyles.

Palaestra

If exercise specialists are to achieve better results...they must consider each individual's uniqueness...before deciding on appropriate approaches....[This book includes] forms [and] joint-action muscle charts...[to create a] blueprint to stay on course and match prescriptions to unique needs...

Scott H. Grindel

This well written book is intended to individualize an exercise/fitness program to meet clients specific needs. The book was designed to stress empathy and rapport with clients in order to get to know them and to "show them you care." It then provides information on programs specifically designed for each individual client. This transition is well done and easily followed. Though the book was designed for the exercise specialist, it would also be of interest to the student, strength coach, physical therapist, or athletic trainer. The author is well suited to write this text in that he is an active professor, board member, speaker, and author on the subject of fitness and lifestyle management. The content covers the categories of client counseling, musculoskeletal assessment, personalized prescription for weight management and conditioning, as well as individualized programs for the injured athlete and those with medical problems. There are many useful handouts, questionnaires, and tables provided. There are also numerous references cited. I find this book very informative. It delivers information appropriate for the student learner, but also contains useful knowledge for even the seasoned athletic trainer or physical therapist.

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Reviewer: Scott H. Grindel, MD (Spectrum Health - Reed City Campus)
Description: This well written book is intended to individualize an exercise/fitness program to meet clients specific needs.
Purpose: The book was designed to stress empathy and rapport with clients in order to get to know them and to "show them you care." It then provides information on programs specifically designed for each individual client. This transition is well done and easily followed.
Audience: Though the book was designed for the exercise specialist, it would also be of interest to the student, strength coach, physical therapist, or athletic trainer. The author is well suited to write this text in that he is an active professor, board member, speaker, and author on the subject of fitness and lifestyle management.
Features: The content covers the categories of client counseling, musculoskeletal assessment, personalized prescription for weight management and conditioning, as well as individualized programs for the injured athlete and those with medical problems. There are many useful handouts, questionnaires, and tables provided. There are also numerous references cited.
Assessment: I find this book very informative. It delivers information appropriate for the student learner, but also contains useful knowledge for even the seasoned athletic trainer or physical therapist.

Booknews

Rather than take the more common body component approach to cardiovascular and weight-control exercise regimens, this book for personal fitness trainers and exercise specialists presents a prescription process model that personalizes counselling, assessment, and prescription for clients with regard to their unique body types, physiologies, and psychologies. Additionally, chapters on exercise for special populations and those with orthopedic injuries are included.

Palaestra

If exercise specialists are to achieve better results...they must consider each individual's uniqueness...before deciding on appropriate approaches....[This book includes] forms [and] joint-action muscle charts...[to create a] blueprint to stay on course and match prescriptions to unique needs...

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Part I:  Foundations of Client-Centered Exercise Prescription

Interesting textbook: Labor Relations or Lyndon B Johnson

Pumped: Straight Facts for Athletes about Drugs, Supplements and Training

Author: Cynthia Kuhn

For everyone from backyard athletes to the pros, Pumped is essential reading for maximum performance and a healthy body. Steroids, stimulants, supplements: today's athlete is offered an array of drugs and dietary enhancements to solve every problem from weight to speed. What's safe? What works? What's a waste of money? Pumped offers the latest research-based information in an accessible and informative style. Pumped explains the body basics that every athlete must know for optimum performance. It also offers the reader straight information about drugs and supplements for weight control, muscle building, and endurance training. What an athlete uses in the off-training time is important too, and Pumped covers recreational drugs—from alcohol to speed—how they can seem to help performance, how they hurt, and for how long. Following the success of the authors' previous work, Buzzed, which was praised as "sane, sharp, and up to speed on all the latest research" (The Independent), Pumped provides a no-nonsense guide to drugs and their effects on the athletic brain and body. 4 pages of color illustrations.

Library Journal

This excellent book is not solely for athletes--anyone who wants to have more energy will benefit. Although the focus is on drugs and supplements, the advice on dieting and explanations of the body's physiology will interest those who would like to be fit. The tone is objective and balanced, and the authors (Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy) explain with great clarity what published research has shown about steroids, hormones, dietary supplements, alcohol, and caffeine. The writing style is lively and fast paced: "Creatine is becoming increasingly popular as a nutritional supplement to prolong exercise tolerance. The problem is that it lasts about 10 seconds." An excellent chapter, "How To Read the Ads," tells the reader how to judge claims critically and evaluate scientific research. The work concludes with a bibliography in which the authors try "to list the best available studies supporting or refuting the effectiveness of various performance-enhancing agents." Highly recommended for public, undergraduate, and medical libraries.--Natalie Kupferberg, Ohio State Univ., Columbus Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Martin Katahn
Valuable, safe, and sensible information on diet, drugs, and exercise.
— (Dr. Martin Katahn, author of The T-Factor Diet)

Annann Hong
Well-organized, easy-to-understand, and comprehensive.....challenges us to become more critical consumers of product research and marketing.

Ron Courson
[A]n outstanding resource for the student-athlete as well as the sports medicine clinician.

Barbara Delaney
Must reading....reveals the trade-offs behind the hype [and] shows the real effects these drugs have on the body.

Bernie DePalma
[A] major contribution to the health, safety, and welfare of all athletes and especially student-athletes.