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Fitness Professionals' Guide to Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Human Movement

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This book was wonderful for helping me get a better understanding of the muscles of the body. Being a new fitness trainer, it's really important to help my clients as much as possible. I also used another reference which was much easier to read then big anatomy and physiology textbooks. I highly recommend "Key Facts for Anatomy and Physiology" by Patrick Leonardi. This book gets to the point and explains the muscles,bones,nerves and blood supply of the body in reader-friendly language. Both books helped me very much to get a better understanding of the body.

The diagrams are a little too schematic, showing some muscle bellies well displaced from their actual positions. What's worse is that the software doesn't have any pictures available for many of the muscles listed. There was also at least one difference from Gray's Anatomy that I think Gray got right and this book didn't. If I'd been able to try this before buying, I wouldn't have bought it.

This is an excellent tool for trainers, professors, fitness professionals or students who want to engage in active learning. As a health/fitness trainer and an Associate Professor at a University, I use the book and CD during training courses, academic seminars and as a quick - interactive reference available in all our human performance labs on campus. Internationally, my training seminars in Asia and Europe include the materials because they are understood in any language. Students can explore questions on their own, at their own pace. The challenging information is presented in way that there are multiple methods (text, color pictures, CD 'live' movement and narrated on screen lectures) so everyone can discover the answers to who, what, where, why, how the body moves. Dr. Golding left no muscle or joint unexamined in this incredibly comprehensive tool kit for learning. It's a masterpiece that progresses learning and allows students to discover the human body at their own pace using reliable information. Thanks Dr. Golding for once again, making our work as educators a pleasure!

This book came with my ACE Personal Trainer Premier package and it's been extremely useful. This in combination with the "ACE Functional Anatomy" DVD by Sabrena Newton, has really made learning this complex material much easier than I thought it would be (though still not easy by any means)!

In spite of some typo's in the book (which I have been told they will correct in future editions when I contacted the publisher), it's an excellent resource which has an incredible CD ROM showing individual details of muscles and "video" footage of various types of movements as well as a large amount of exercises.

There are also great quizzes you can use to practice the information. This has been an extremely beneficial tool in terms of being able to apply the information rather than just memorize it by rote. It adds another dimension to the learning process which I find helps to reinforce the material.

Along with the footage, there is a list of all the muscles involved in the particular exercise. You have the option of clicking on the names of those muscles which then leads you to a page with detailed illustrations (with various viewing options including seeing only the origins/insertions) and explanations of the functions of the muscles.

I also like that fact that they not only tell what each individual muscles do, but there is a section in the book containing several pages where they list various types of anatomical movements (ex. Scapula Adduction) and then list all the muscles involved with each movement. They also make it clear which are primary muscles and which are secondary.

With the individual muscles they rank (in order of importance) the motions that the muscle is responsible for.

I am currently studying to be a personal trainer. This book is a great companion to my trainer's manual. I mostly bought the book for the cd because I found it difficult to understand all the planes of movement in a 2 dimensional book. The cd allows me to see body movement in 3D. The book is also handy because it is in color compared to my boring black and white textbook.

I got this book because of the combination of text and DVD. I had to try the CD-rom on 3 computers before I was able to install it. Once installed, I wasn't thrilled with the videos. I thought I'd get snippets of athletes in motion with audio to go with it, but it's just shots of a single person performing a muslce action multiple times(adduction, abduction, etc.) The activity examples given in the text were good, but in all I wouldn't recommend this for trying to learn muscle anatomy. Not worth the $40.

A topic any fitness professional should have ready access to, in a format that is easy to take in. The initial read felt a bit dry, and difficult to retain. However, the companion cd-rom greatly boosted my retention of the material. The videos and free-form "explore" option were a godsend. "Explore" is a function on the cd-rom which allows you to get details on muscles, actions, and exercises, and how they interrelate. Finally, the electronic quizzes were a huge help to me. I used them more like one would use flash cards, and repeatedly drilled myself with them.

This book is a great learning tool in teaching about the bones and muscles great pics and quizzes to help reinforce what is learned.

Great book for studying for your Personal Trainer Certification. Good pictures with label to learn all anatomy. Includes a CD which allows you to test yourself on what you learned.

This book is written by top experts on fitness. It is an essential and comprehensive resource for those who want to become fitness professionals. There is a lot to learn in terms of names of bones, muscles, etc, but that's just the way anatomy is. This book makes it easier by its intelligent organization. The only drawback: I'd heard there were "typo's," and yes there are quite a few. For instance, a whole section of the table of contents is missing. But this is the 2003 edition, and I understand many of these have been caught and corrected in a later edition?? Also see the ACE (American Council on Exercise) website for other resources for aspiring fitness pro's.