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ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer (American College/Sports Medici)

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If you want to pass, you gotta have this book to prepare.

Can be kind of dry, could be better organized. On the whole, it does what it should.

Enjoy.

This textbook serves as a great starting place for studying for the ACSM test. It goes into more detail than the Review guide. I also took the 3 day workshop and with this book, it covers a lot of the testing topics.

Read this textbook cover-to-cover and then go through ACSM's Certification Review, and you should be fine on the CPT exam. This text can get pretty technical, but you don't need to memorize everything to do well on the exam.

I do not recommend this text for use as a reference guide if you work in a regular gym. The ACSM CPT exam is very clinical in nature and the information is geared towards use in a physical therapy/rehabilitation setting. For instance, even though the text highlights how use of free-weights is better than use of resistance machines, most of the exercises covered in the book are performed on resistance machines. I also know very few personal trainers who own a stethoscope and a BP cuff or who make regular use of VO2R calculations when making exercise prescriptions.

This book was recommended to me as the primary resource I would need to pass the acsm cpt exam. It's a bit dry and covers a lot, but it is a textbook and did help increase my knowledge so I cannot complain too much. There is a lot of information in this book that you will never use as a trainer, but it's still good to know.

I have been teaching fitness for several years and wanted to get a personal trainer certification. Based on the learning materials available, I chose to go with ACSM rather than ACE.

However, once I got this book, I quickly realized I also needed to get the text book (ASCM Personal Trainer Resource Book) as there were no examples to support why certain questions were asked or not.

Once I had the text book, this made a lot more sense, and was a fairly useful review.

I suspect its also a very good resource for those who had taken the live seminars.