NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training

by Micheal A. Clark

NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training introduces the health and fitness professional to NASM’s proprietary Corrective Exercise Continuum, a system of training that uses corrective exercise strategies to help improve muscle imbalances and movement efficiency to decrease the risk of injury. This textbook includes several new chapters that were not included in NASM’s previous corrective exercise materials, including the rationale for corrective exercise training, assessments of health risk, static postural assessments, range of motion assessments, and strength assessments (manual muscle testing) as well as corrective exercise strategies for the cervical spine, elbow, and wrist.
 
There are more than 100 corrective exercise techniques in the categories of self-myofascial release, static stretching, neuromuscular stretching, isolated strength training, positional isometrics, and integrated dynamic movements included in the text. These, along with corrective exercise strategies for common movement impairments seen in each segment of the body, make this text the premier resource for learning and applying NASM’s systematic approach to corrective exercise training.

Genres: Fitness, Health, Nonfiction, Bodies, Science

432 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.