Question to Fitness Professionals

[bullandbear]

I'm sure most read alot about fitness related literature but I guess that like every other trade, once you are immersed long enough in the industry, things that you read seems to give you less of a satisfaction, less of a "Aha, I didn't know that" moment. More repetitive information is good for retention until you reach a point where you can no longer stand reading something that "basic" anymore.

As a non-fitness professional who reads regularly, I have wasted alot of time reading stuff that I've already read somewhere else and it's basically playing with semantics. If I experience something like this, I shudder to think how much precious time might have been wasted by a knowledgeable fitness professional who has to sieve through even more piles of literature on stuff he already knows in hope of finding some new elusive knowledge. One reason why I always like Poliquin articles on T-Nation is that I pick up something new everytime a new article comes out.

It may sound stupid to ask this but I'm interested to know how do fitness professionals qualify which are the materials to read, and how to avoid all those other junks out there.

[umass]

Good question, I'm a young fitness professional in that I've only been training for 6 months and learning for 4 years. I base alot of my buying on recommendations from people with more experience. Also at one time or another alot of the big names will put out a "reading list", the most comprehensive one being Eric Cressy's http://www.ericcressey.com/recommendedresources.html
Also you are kind of doomed to reread some stuff, but then expand on that knowledge as long as it's a good text.
-Ned