Reaching Out to the Inactive Talking Them Off the Couch DVD

Workout Videos Presents: Reaching Out to the Inactive: Talking Them Off the Couch Workout DVD - Reaching Out to the Inactive: Talking Them Off the Couch provides a detailed overview of why so many people live a sedentary lifestyle and what health/fitness professionals can do to get these individuals to change their activity patterns. The DVD offers invaluable strategies for motivating the inactive to make such a change. The DVD also features suggestions and guidelines that personal trainers can use to enhance the activity levels of their clients. Among the topics covered: an opportunity and a challenge, develop empathy, the barriers to change, the real culprits, one person cannot change another’s behavior, don’t be a drill instructor, change is a process, not an event, anticipate excuses, time is not an excuse, and apply the appropriate strategy. Produced in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Affiliation: Teri O'Brien, Teri O’Brien Fitness Systems, Inc. (2008) (45 mins.)