To be a successful personal trainer you’ll want to eat, breath, sleep and think personal training. Here are the top 5 personal training books to immerse yourself in. These are available at all good book shops or from ubber online bookstore Amazon.

The Complete Book of Personal Training

A very comprehensive guide on the subject by someone who really understands and knows how to be a successful personal trainer and sure to be a dog-eared on any personal trainers bookshelf. Although long and expensive it’s well regarded as worth the money and packed with useful insights and information. The Complete Book of Personal Training

 Start Your Own Personal Training Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Ideal for anyone wanting to know more about becoming a personal trainer and wanting to know a bit more and in particular those wanting to get into the fitness industry but unsure of which route to go but equally the information will be a basic for those already in the field. Start Your Own Personal Training Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Selling Personal Training: How To Make the Most of Your Personal Training Business

 This book is exactly what it says on the cover, it’s about selling and increasing your income as a personal trainer with tried and tested sales techniques. The concepts it recommends are hard nosed but then selling is and if success is your objective this book should be in your library. Selling Personal Training: How To Make the Most of Your Personal Training Business

Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies

Like Selling Personal Training: How To Make the Most of Your Personal Training Business above, the Dummies Becoming a Personal Trainer guide is aimed very much at the business side of setting yourself up as a fitness professional with lots of true stories, advice and tips. In particular it can help avoid mistakes first starting out often make. It’s not a book likely to be referred to over and over but is recommended for anyone thinking of entering the business.Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))

NSCA’s Essentials of Personal Training

Unlike the previous two books, NSCA’s Essentials of Personal Training focuses not on the commercial side of running a personal training but the principles, concepts, and theories of teaching exercise and makes a great companion to the Selling Personal Training: How To Make the Most of Your Personal Training Business or Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies.

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