
Training Disabled People
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Training Disabled People is the only book to provide fitness
professionals with detailed guidance on working with disabled clients.
The book is written to the National Standards, so provides the reader
with everything they need to know in order to gain qualification and be
able to work safely and effectively with disabled clients.
Training disabled clients is currently the most in-demand course at
many of the fitness industry training centres - they are struggling to
keep up with demand. This follows legislation and Government
initiatives designed to improve access to fitness centres for disabled
people and to encourage them to take part in regular exercise.
The book covers a range of areas, including:
- medical conditions and how to research them
- programming and instruction skills
- pre-exercise checks and fitness testing
- communication skills (including sign language)
- motivation techniques
- sample programmes and exercises, fully illustrated with B&W photography
- checklists and forms to be used when working with clients.
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Person
delivering their courses in working with disabled clients. She has many
years experience in all areas of fitness training, but is considered
one of the industry's experts in developing approaches to fitness for
the disabled.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- How to use this book
- PART ONE Introduction to Training Disabled People
- 1 Facts and figures
- 2 The case for exercise
- 3 Why now?
- 4 Risk assessment
- 5 Qualifications
- 6 Summary
- PART TWOThe Background
- 7 Introduction to disability theory
- 8 Behavioural and motivational theory
- 9 Finding out more
- 10 Recording information
- 11 Summary
- PART THREE Programming and Instruction
- 12 Working with disabled people
- 13 Pre-activity health and safety
- 14 Principles of fitness programming
- 15 Functional exercise training
- 16 Clothing, footwear and equipment
- 17 Principles of instruction
- 18 Exercise selection
- 19 Specific medical conditions
- 20 Summary
- Appendices
- Glossary
- References and further reading
- Useful websites
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
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