Fitness Professionals' Guide to Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Human Movement

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Summary: cd a plus
Review: I am currently studying to be a personal trainer. This book is a great companion to my trainer's manual. I mostly bought the book for the cd because I found it difficult to understand all the planes of movement in a 2 dimensional book. The cd allows me to see body movement in 3D. The book is also handy because it is in color compared to my boring black and white textbook.

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Summary: DIFFICULT BOOK FOR BEGINNERS!
Review: I found this book to be difficult especially since I have never learned anything about anatomy before. I do not recommend that a novice to anatomy buy this book. It would be better for someone that has already learned anatomy or a professional because it's a condensced version of the muscles and their actions. The material is sometimes too general or too wordy, which makes for difficult memorization and learning. The CD-ROM videos are good, but the rest of the material on the CD is already in the book. The quizzes at the back of the book are somewhat helpful with learning the material.

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Summary: How can there be missing pictures?
Review: The diagrams are a little too schematic, showing some muscle bellies well displaced from their actual positions. What's worse is that the software doesn't have any pictures available for many of the muscles listed. There was also at least one difference from Gray's Anatomy that I think Gray got right and this book didn't. If I'd been able to try this before buying, I wouldn't have bought it.

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Summary: Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University Nevada
Review: This is an excellent tool for trainers, professors, fitness professionals or students who want to engage in active learning. As a health/fitness trainer and an Associate Professor at a University, I use the book and CD during training courses, academic seminars and as a quick - interactive reference available in all our human performance labs on campus. Internationally, my training seminars in Asia and Europe include the materials because they are understood in any language. Students can explore questions on their own, at their own pace. The challenging information is presented in way that there are multiple methods (text, color pictures, CD 'live' movement and narrated on screen lectures) so everyone can discover the answers to who, what, where, why, how the body moves. Dr. Golding left no muscle or joint unexamined in this incredibly comprehensive tool kit for learning. It's a masterpiece that progresses learning and allows students to discover the human body at their own pace using reliable information. Thanks Dr. Golding for once again, making our work as educators a pleasure!