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Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise
Author: Human Kinetics
$26.95 USD
Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise is your guide to landing your dream job in one of today’s most exciting, popular, and fastest-growing industries!
Produced by the American Kinesiology Association, this hands-on guide includes detailed job descriptions, information on working conditions, salary ranges, responsibilities, key skills, and required certifications for 36 careers in sport and fitness:
- Aquatic therapist
- Athletic trainer (college or university sport team)
- Athletic trainer (high school sport team)
- Athletic trainer (as physician extender)
- Athletic trainer (clinical)
- Personal trainer
- Group exercise instructor
- Strength and conditioning coach
- Fitness center owner or manager
- Fitness leader in gerontology settings
- Health promotion specialist
- Fitness specialist
- Physical education teacher
- Sport instructor
- Coach
- Sport official
- Sport psychologist
- Sport administrator
- Sport marketer
- Media and public relations specialist
- Professional scout
- Sport event manager
- Sport journalist
- Sport facility operations manager
- Clinical exercise physiologist
- Certified clinical exercise specialist
- Sport dietitian
- Sports medicine clinic director
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Medical and osteopathic physicians
- Chiropractor
- Physician assistant
- Kinesiology professor
- Kinesiology researcher
- Kinesiology department administrator
If you are ready to pursue a job in the sport, fitness, or exercise industry, Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise is one resource you can’t be without.
Chapter 1: Examining the Big Picture
Chapter 2: Making Intelligent Career Choices in Kinesiology
Chapter 3: Careers in Fitness Instruction, Personal Training, and Fitness Management
Chapter 4: Careers in Physical Education, Sport Instruction, Coaching, Sports Officiating, and Sport Psychology
Chapter 5: Careers in Sport Marketing and Management
Chapter 6: Careers in Sports Medicine
Chapter 7: Kinesiology as Pre-Professional Training for Allied Health Sciences
Chapter 8: Careers in Higher Education
“I have served as a professor, department chair, and academic dean, and I have observed hundreds of students who enroll in programs with little concept of career options and how to achieve employment goals. Students need guidance in understanding the options. Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise provides that guidance.”
Brian J. Sharkey, PhD -- Professor Emeritus, University of Montana
Past President of American College of Sports Medicine
“Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise offers clear information, helpful examples, and plenty of food for thought for those aspiring to find a career in this growing field.”
Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD -- Director of sports nutrition services at Healthworks, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Author of Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Fourth Edition
