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Motivating People to be Physically Active | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bess Marcus, Leighann Forsyth
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 547451
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0736040641
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.82
EAN: 9780736040648
ASIN: 0736040641
Publication Date: November 2002
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Product Description
Brown Medical School. Comprehensive reference describing methods for helping people to change from inactive to active living. Topics include improving motivation, assessing clients physical activity patterns, model for activity readiness, and applications of strategies. Softcover. DNLM: Physical Fitness.
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Motivating Yourself to Read This Book in its Entirety August 29, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Although the concept behind this book sounds interesting, it is simply a long winded conglomeration of surveys and redundant information. I was disappointed in the manner that this book window dresses ground level basics, without any new innovative or even remotely unique ideas for motivating clients.
What the book does do is help pinpoint various "obstacles" in the way of progress, by providing a rich surplus of questionnaires. However, I feel that pinpointing "obstacles" just helps you identify the excuses, and this is an ineffective approach in itself because you will find yourself in a whirlwind of excuses and lack of progress. Regardless of which of the hundreds of excuses the client makes, the bottom line is that they haven't made exercise a priority, and they probably won't until you can bring out their desire to exercise. Besides, having a client fill out a myriad of questionnaires is likely to make thier trip to the gym an extremely boring encounter, thereby creating unenthused bias about "going to the gym".
In my own experience as a personal trainer, I have found "fun" to be the best motivator. Creating games through exercise, challenging personal records, and even simple rewards make the overall gym experience a positive one, and keep the client motivated to keep coming back for more. This book overlooks these approaches.
The lack of creativity in this book's approach to motivating may not be the best investment of your time, in fact, you may need to find a way to "Motivate Yourself To Finish This Book".
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