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ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia, Pa. ; London : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2010.Edition: 8th ed. / senior editor, Walter R. Thompson ; associate editors, Neil F. Gordon, Linda S. PescatelloDescription: xxi, 380 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780781769020 (hbk.) :
  • 9780781769037 (pbk.) :
  • 9780781769020 (Paper)
Other title:
  • Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.82 THO
LOC classification:
  • RM725 .A48 2010
Contents:
Section 1: Health appraisal and risk assessment -- 1.Benefits and risks associated with physical activity -- 2.Preparticipation health screening and risk stratification -- Section II: Exercise testing -- 3.Pre-exercise evaluations -- 4.Health-related physical fitness testing and interpretation -- 5.Clinical exercise testing -- 6.Interpretatio of clinical exercise test data -- Section III.Exercise prescription -- 7.General principles of exercise prescription -- 8.Exercise prescriptioin for health populations and special considerations -- 9.Exercise prescription for patients with cardiac disease -- 10.Exercise prescription for other clinical populations.
Summary: This manual succinctly summarizes recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased individuals. It provides a resource for the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that must be mastered by candidates for all ACSM certifications.
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Previous ed.: 2005.

Includes Internet access.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: Health appraisal and risk assessment -- 1.Benefits and risks associated with physical activity -- 2.Preparticipation health screening and risk stratification -- Section II: Exercise testing -- 3.Pre-exercise evaluations -- 4.Health-related physical fitness testing and interpretation -- 5.Clinical exercise testing -- 6.Interpretatio of clinical exercise test data -- Section III.Exercise prescription -- 7.General principles of exercise prescription -- 8.Exercise prescriptioin for health populations and special considerations -- 9.Exercise prescription for patients with cardiac disease -- 10.Exercise prescription for other clinical populations.

This manual succinctly summarizes recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased individuals. It provides a resource for the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that must be mastered by candidates for all ACSM certifications.

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