Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 369 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780736040167
  • DDC分類 613.7

Full Description


A book to bridge the gap between research and practice, describing an approach to physical fitness testing and exercise prescription. Professionals and students are shown how to select physical fitness tests, conduct physiological assessments and design individual exercise programmes and prescriptions. The text integrates important principles and theories in exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, psychology and measurement and then applies them to physical fitness testing and exercise programme design.

Contents

Physical activity, health and chronic disease; preliminary health screening and risk classification; principles of assessment, prescription and exercise program adherence; assessing cardiorespiratory fitness; designing cardiorespiratory exercise programs; assessing strength and muscular endurance; designing resistance training programs; assessing body composition; designing weight management and body composition programs; assessing flexibility and designing stretching programs; assessing and managing stress. Appendices: health and fitness appraisal; cardiorespiratory assessments; muscular fitness exercise and norms; body composition assessments; energy intake and expenditure; flexibility exercises, low back care exercises and stress assessment.