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siochain

Will any recommendations on good an anatomy and physiology text books?

siochain wrote: »

Will any recommendations on good an anatomy and physiology text books?

A cheap one that you can lay your hands on. I buy books all the time. A lot of which I read and give away. Just go and get a second hand text book that has Anatomy and Physiology in the title and you won't go too far wrong.

I am a really visual learner. I photocopy pages with diagrams and then on the photocopy 'white out' the labels or answers or whatever you want to call that....then I make photocopies of that blank diagram and start labelling all the things I know. Then I go and find the things that I don't know in the book...study them...read about them...then go back and label them on my sheet. Then I screw up that page stick in in the bin and do it again....I keep going through that process till I can label the whole diagram I want to remember. This was the way that I learned all the bones in the human body. The same way I learned all the muscles. The same way I learned all the origins, insertions and actions and what lever type they were. To the point that there are things that I will never ever forget.

As an example...I am sitting here reading a second hand book I bought the other day....Neuroscience Fundamental for Rehabilitation Third Edition Laurie Lundy-Ekman that I got for $10 and I am trying to learn all the peripheral nerves and dermatomes. $10 is what I spent and I think I will be able to say with certainty that what I am going to pack into my brain with regard neuroscience is a lot more valuable than that.

2000+ euros is what these courses cost...which would be fine if you got a job out of it...I checked out LIA website...they've a Jobs page and have one job advertised for a trainer and that is from April 1st...for 2000+ euros I'd want to know what sort of record they have with regard their graduates getting work...any way...that aside...for about 50 bucks I recon you could buy a used anatomy and physiology text, supertraining and essentials of strength and conditioning and I would take a wild guess that you could enough knowledge to get you a long long way.

singlesnights wrote: »

Will, what do you think is the secret of James' success?

1. I think he has personally trained exceptionally hard for a considerable amount of time. He's put a huge amount of time and dedication into his training.

2. I think he's trained with around other excellent athletes and coaches in the variety of places that he's trained.

3. I think he's well read. That he's put a enormous effort into understanding the training process and how it applies to himself and others.

4. Both as an athlete and now as a coach he's given an amazing amount of help to others extremely generously.

5. There's no one that knows James or has met him that doesn't know how passionate he is about health and fitness or strength and conditioning or whatever you want to label the industry as.

These are the things that has gotten him his success and these are the things that myself and others admire him for.

You can draw a line here...these are the things that have made him successful and these are also the things he is steadily chipping away at now. Without knowing it he's already destroying his previously unlimited potential.

Now what he's doing is 'learning' more about internet sales and marketing. He is embracing all the worst and most pathetic aspects of that 'industry' and travelling down a path that obviously in the short term will have what I am sure are financial rewards. Unfortunately though it is just extremely short sighted.

Take this case in point. This advertorial on the LIA website. It can only be aimed at complete training and or industry novices. It relies on the following:
a) That you don't know who James is.
b) That you know nothing about the fitness industry.
c) That you know nothing about the way courses and certification works.

I say this because anyone that knows James, the industry and how courses and certification works knows that the story that article is trying to sell is misleading, built on complete fabrication and obfuscation.

Put simply the whole thing is absolute bullish*t.

So lets look at the pros and cons of stuff like this. The pros are that you might sell some more places on courses and that'll mean you make some more money. It is also good for your profile with people that don't do the course but who will perhaps be future clients or customers. The cons are that the majority of people who finish the course will come to realise they were in their own opinion ripped off because they don't find work and realise that there 2000 bucks bought them a piece of paper. The real con is that all the people who know you, that know the industry and that understand how courses and certification work just laugh at you. Not in the funny way but in the sad way. That you burn up all the credibility you worked hard for over years for a few euros. It means that other coaches and trainers that respected you now don't and that they stop sending people your way. That they won't want to help you in the future because they no longer respect as you don't even respect yourself.

On the pro side it probably buys you some credibility with internet and marketing based trainers and you guys can all appear in each others newsletters and post about each other on your Facebook pages and yes, that will mean you can keep accessing the $$$$'s of novice trainers and pimping your products and services to them but that is only part of the whole market.

A lot of trainers don't understand how to 'sell out'. They all do it way too early....you need to do it when you are at the top not at the bottom. If you give all you credibility away at the beginning you can just never get it back.

Whatever the true answer is, the fact remains that he has done very well for himself in the industry in a very short period of time.

I agree. Most of this is because of the points I mentioned at the beginning.

Because of this, he has plenty of very useful information to pass on to those he tutors.

If I was a young aspiring coach or trainer I would be watching with interest as well. Weighing up the pros and cons and looking at James as a case study and working out what path I want to go down and what sort of coach and trainer I want to be and how I want to be viewed.

Inspector Coptoor

Grey's Anatomy and Netters Anatomy colouring book & flash cards are great.

Brian?

Interesting subject cut from different thread

Henry9

Go into Chapters second hand shop on Abbey Street, they sell a lot of college books. If you're happy to take one a couple of editions old you'll get it for next to nothing.