NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training

by National Academy of Sports Medicine

NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training, Second Edition introduces the health and fitness professional to NASM's proprietary Corrective Exercise Continuum, a simple yet highly effective four-phase process professionals can use with their clients and athletes to optimize movement quality and increase resistance to injury. The professional will be equipped to asses, identify, and correct common movement compensations. In addition to a detailed assessment process, this text contains a multitude of corrective exercises in the categories of self-myofascial techniques, stretching techniques, isolated strength training, and integrated dynamic movements. These techniques, along with specific corrective exercise strategies for each segment of the kinetic chain, make this text the premier resource for learning and applying NASM's systematic approach to corrective exercise training.

Genres: Fitness, Health, Nonfiction, Bodies, Science

440 pages, Hardcover

First published September 25, 2010

Reviews

[Joey Randazzo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75.. Passed the exam and helped me understand the muscular/fascial systems that create rotational force.

[4DX CENTER · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a student, this is great information. As a PhD in Education specializing in online teaching&learning, curriculum development and program design, this is way too dense for a self study course. Chapter objectives and chapter content are misaligned. Clinical content should be reassigned to an appendix rather than integrated within the non-clinical content since these items are excluded from the course exam. Overall, not helpful in successful completion of online course activities, quizzes or specialization exam. Sequencing of content awkward for effective online learning in a self study course. Too bad. Has great potential.

[Nick beattie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly useful for my professor in health and wellness. Very interesting as well!

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful, detailed yet easy to digest, reference for my field, i.e. fitness

[Karen]

Good resource for fitness professionals or those looking to help clients/athletes etc with correcting compensations and injury prevention.