Fitness Instruction

American College of Sports Medicine (2014) ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (9th Ed) Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

American College of Sports Medicine (2014) ACSM’s resource manual for guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (7th Ed) Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

American College of Sports Medicine (2009) ACSM's Resources for the personal trainer. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins [amazon][Ch 16 Resistance exercise]

American College of Sports Medicine. (2007). ACSM's health/fitness facility standards and guidelines. Human Kinetics.

Archer, D and Coulson, M. (2011) The Advanced Fitness Instructor's Handbook. Bloomsbury Sport

Aquatic Exercise Association (2010) Aquatic Fitness Professional Manual (6th Ed.) Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics [google books]

Bompa, T. O., & Buzzichelli, C. (2018). Periodization:Theory and methodology of training (6th Ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Boyle, M. (2016) New Functional Training for Sports Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics [£13.99; Amazon]

Buchheit, M. and Laursen, P. (2018) Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics [Human Kinetics website]

Bompa, T. O., Di Pasquale, M., & Cornacchia, L. (2012). Serious strength training. Human Kinetics.

Coburn, J.W. and Malek, M.H. (2012) NSCA's Essentials of Personal Training (2nd ed) Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Comfort, P., Jones, P. A., & McMahon, J. J. (Eds.). (2018). Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning. London, UK: Routledge. [googlebooks]

Coulson, M. (2013) The Fitness Instructors Handbook: A Complete Guide to Health and Fitness (2nd Ed). London: Bloomsbury [amazon]

Coulson, M. (2014). The Complete Guide to Personal Training. Bloomsbury Publishing.[google books]

Clark, M.A., Lucett, S.C., Sutton, B.G. (2012) NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training (4th ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins [google books]

Crossley, J. (2012) Personal Training: Theory and Practice. Oxon: Hodder Education [amazon]

DeSimone, G. (2012) ACSM’s Resources for the Group Exercise Instructor. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Earle, R.W. & Baechle, T.R. (2004) NSCA’s Essentials of Personal Training. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics [google books][Ch13 Resistance exercise technique][Ch14 Cardio exercise technique]

Fleck, S. J. and Kraemer, W.J. (2014). Designing resistance training programs (4th Ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Gamble, P. (2013). Strength and conditioning for team sports: sport-specific physical preparation for high performance. Routledge.

Griffin, J.C. (2006) Client-Centred Exercise Prescription. Champaign IL: Human Kinetics [google books]

Haff, G. G., & Triplett, N. T. (Eds.). (2015). Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning (4th Ed.). Human kinetics.

Hoffman, J. (Ed) (2012) NSCAs Guide to program design Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Hough, P., & Penn, S. (Eds.). (2016). Advanced Personal Training: Science to Practice. London: Routledge. [Routledge]

Hutchinson, A. (2011). Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Workout myths, Training truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise. McClelland & Stewart.

Hutchinson, A. (2018) Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. HarperCollins [my book review and resources from the book]

Jeffreys, I., & Moody, J. (Eds.). (2016). Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance. Routledge.

Joyce, D. and Lewindon, D. (2014). High-performance training for sports. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Joyce, D. & Lewindon, D. (Eds.) (2015) Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation: Integrating medicine and science for performance solutions. Routledge.

Kenney, W.L., Wilmore, J.H. and Costill, D.L.(2012) Physiology of Sport and Exercise (5th Ed). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics [google books]

Kennedy-Armbruster, C. & Yoke, M. (2009) Methods of Group Exercise Instruction (2nd Ed) Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics [google books][Ch4 Music,choreography, cueing][Ch12 Water exercise]

McGuigan, M. (2019). Testing and Evaluation of Strength and Power. Routledge.

Moir, G. (2015). Strength and Conditioning. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Ratamess, N. (Ed) (2012) ACSMs Foundations of Strength and Conditioning Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Schoenfeld, B. (2016). Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy. Champaign IL: Human Kinetics

Spitzer Gibson, T. & Hoeger, W.W.K. (2003) Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness (3rd Ed). London: Wadsworth

Stoppani, J. (2006). Encyclopedia of muscle & strength. Human Kinetics.[google books]

Tumminello, N. (2016) Building Muscle and Performance. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Tumminello, N. (2018). Your Workout PERFECTED. Human Kinetics.

Turner, A., & Comfort, P. (Eds.). (2017). Advanced Strength and Conditioning: An Evidence-based Approach. Routledge.

Turner, A. (Ed.). (2018). Routledge Handbook of Strength and Conditioning: Sport-specific Programming for High Performance. Routledge.

Willardson, J. M. (2013). Developing the core. Human Kinetics.

Further Links on this website

• Main Exercise Referral/Clinical Exercise page

• Main Strength & Conditioning page

• Aerobic Conditioning for Health and Performance

• Core Stability

• The Mechanisms of Hypertrophy

• Chronic Cardiovascular Adaptations

• Exercise programme templates

Further Links

• CSEP(2002) PAR-Q & You. [click here]

• Exercise Library - from www.functionalmovement.com the home of FMS

• The National Strength and Conditioning Association Video Library by Dartfish.

• L2 Gym Instructor Course Paperwork

• L3 Personal Trainer Paperwork