Hone Your Selling Skills Before You Become a Personal Trainer...Here's a list of the Best Selling Books!

I AM CURRENTLY THE 5TH HIGHEST GROSSING PERSONAL TRAINER AT BALLY TOTAL FITNESS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...DONE WITHIN JUST 1 YEAR.

Now,

If you want to be a successful personal trainer, then you must master sales skills.  Here's a list of books that I have read so far:

1. Selling Personal Training II by Ron Thatcher

2. Sales Bible by Geffrey Gitomer

3. How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
 
4. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger

5.  Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer 

6. Close Like the Pros by Steve Marx

7. Getting to Closed by Stephan Schiffman

8. Selling to Big Companies by Jill Konrath

9. Flirting for Success by Jill Spiegel


10. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

As you can see, my constant vigil to be the best personal trainer and salesman is paying off....and if it can work for ME, it can work for YOU!

Committed to your Success,
AG

What are the Differences Between GETP 7th edition and GETP 8th Edition?

Recently I was asked the following question:

What are the Differences Between GETP 7th edition and GETP 8th Edition?

Here's the link where you will discover the differences:

http://www.pearsonvue.com/acsm/ACSM-Certification_Transitions_info.pdf

TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY! YOU WILL NOT GET A SINGLE QUESTION OUT OF THIS!

I bought their material for the ACE CPT exam....a total waste..

 http://www.mo-media.com/acsm/

I didn't get a single question from their material.  Lesson:  Spend your precious dollars only on the actual ACSM exams from ACSM.org. 

How to get Free ACSM Sample Test Questions!

I found a great link to where you can get a couple of free sample ACSM CPT test questions.  This is a teaser to get you to buy a bigger package.  However, all I did was use the samples to practice and I never bought the real package.  Here's the link:

ACSM 010-111: ACSM certified Personal Trainer Exam

You will have to give them your email address and set you password...and bamm!  You get free access to their sample practice questions.


Here's another site with free samples:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/16963157/ACSM-Practice-Tests-and-Exam


My gift to you!

Great Facebook thread that's all about the ACSM!

Here's a great facebook thread all about the ACSM and its various certifications:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=0&gid=105407395311

Check it out!

A Great Companion to Your ACSM Study Material!

I would definitely recommend that you supplement you studying with the following book:

Exercise Prescription: A Case Study Approach to the ACSM's Guidelines, second edition

This book will give you a good idea of how to approach exercise prescription:

-2 cautions about this book:

1. ACSM's risk stratifications have changed as of 2009.  Therefore, you have skip the case studies on these sections.  I'm sure the 3rd edition, when it comes out, will have the updated risk stratification criteria.
2. You will not need to know the case studies for the metabolic equations as those are used only for the ACSM HFS exam

Sample ACSM CPT Exam Tutorial

If you want to learn what the ACSM CPT exam will look and feel like, click on the following link:

http://www.acsm.org/certification/ACSMSampleExamTutorial.wmv