ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

by Donna Balado (Editor)

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  1995

  $3.25

  This text provides the latest information on health screening, physical fitness, clinical testing and procedures for affecting health behaviour. It also includes the certification knowledge, skills and abilities that must be met by candidates for each of ACSM's certification levels. This edition contains: expanded coverage of healthy adults, including standard fitness tests with normative data; greater detail on healthy special populations such as children, pregnant women and the elderly; testing and prescription information for pulmonary patients; quantitative, tabular data - threshold values, clinical lab cutoffs considered abnormal, normative fitness data, useful monograms, and more; expanded treatment of environmental considerations; appendices on ECG interpretation and metabolic calculations.

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  Paperback
  2005

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  The single most internationally read and referenced text in sports medicine, exercise science, and health and fitness, this manual succinctly summarizes recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased individuals. The Seventh Edition contains the most current public health and clinical information and state-of-the-art, research-based recommendations. Coverage represents the fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that must be mastered by candidates for all ACSM certifications. Written by international experts in numerous fields, the Seventh Edition covers additional topics including arthritis, osteoporosis, dyslipidemia, immunology, and metabolic syndrome.