Health/Fitness Instructor's Handbook

by Edward T. Howley (Author), B.Don Franks (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.25

  Aimed at health and fitness professionals who want to learn about the latest advances in physical fitness, this text is a reference full of practical advice for every health and fitness student, candidates preparing for the ACSM Health Fitness Instructor Certification Exam and practicing professionals. It provides the latest information on the fundamentals of fitness, exercise physiology and biomechanics. It should help the reader develop meaningful and safe fitness programmes, including exercise for special populations. This edition has a strong focus on assessment, testing and calibrating testing equipment for programmes, and to ensure participant safety as well as expanded coverage of exercise prescription for special populations - including clients with special needs and health conditions, youth and the elderly.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $6.80

  This second edition of the Health Fitness Instructor's Handbook has even more comprehensive and up-to-date information for health and fitness professionals who want to keep abreast of the advances in physical fitness. It includes not only complete coverage of the competencies required for the 1991 ACSM certification, but also complete information about the fundamentals of fitness, exercise physiology, and biomechanics, as well as guidelines for developing safe fitness programs. Well-known authors Howley and Franks have added important new features to this second edition, including new chapters on measurement and evaluation, nutrition, and computer software; greater coverage of programme leadership, stress management, and cardiac medications; more case studies for analysis; 200 new figures; current references for health / fitness professionals; 1991 ACSM objectives for Health / Fitness Instructor and Exercise Leader certification; and a new format that lists objectives and defines key terms at the beginning of each chapter and includes more examples of calculations and problems. Professionals such as ACSM, AFAA, and ACE instructors should find all the information they need in the Health Fitness Instructor's Handbook . Health Fitness Instructor's Handbook makes an excellent text for college courses that prepare students to become health fitness instructors. Instructors preparing for ACSM, AFAA, or ACE certification - or any other fitness instructor certification - can use this handbook as a study tool. Supervisors of fitness programmes in commercial fitness centres, the workplace, YMCAs, and universities should find this handbook to be a useful reference. And, it provides a review for the thousands who are already certified as instructors or leaders.