Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

by VivianH.Heyward (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $6.84

  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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.29

  Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription answers the need for a complete set of procedures for evaluating fitness and prescribing exercise for apparently healthy adults. From field tests to laboratory techniques, it provides a well-balanced approach to the assessment of physical fitness, covering cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness, body weight and composition, flexibility, and neuromuscular relaxation. Students and professionals will benefit from practical tools such as specific test protocols and performance norms, sample case studies and individualised exercise programmes, chapter objectives and highlights, references at the end of each chapter, sources for equipment, appendixes containing useful forms, sample computerised analyses, and much more.