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This comprehensive exercise testing and prescription text provides coverage of fitness assessment concepts, hands-on prescription applications, and a thorough preparation for ACSM certification exams. Exercise testing and prescription are presented within a health-related context that provides the latest research findings on exercise and nutrition, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and aging.
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Helps students prepare for ACSM certification exams and serves as a valuable reference throughout careers in applied fitness settings.
Presents exercise testing and prescription within a health-related context that provides the latest research findings on exercise and nutrition, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and aging.
Includes hundreds of illustrations, photographs, tables, and graphs, making this the most visually engaging exercise testing and prescription text available.
Highlights issues of current interest through Sports Medicine Insight boxes.
Promotes hands-on learning with Physical Fitness Activity feature.
Features updated content, with new information from Healthy People 2010, latest ACSM Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription, USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2000), cholesterol guidelines, ACSM Guidelines for exercise prescription of the elderly, individuals with type 2 diabetes, and heart disease patients and the 2000 NIH Consensus report on osteoporosis.
Includes more than 742 new references from the scientific literature, for a total of over 2300 references.
Features practical information, including how to select home exercise equipment, rating individuals on the Activity Pyramid, and 10 new physical fitness activities.
Includes multiple-choice Review Questions and Answers at the end of each chapter.
Includes website addresses of professional organizations and resources for information on health and fitness, nutrition, and many other topics.
Includes updated appendix on energy cost (MET values) for a wide variety of physical activities.
Includes new emphasize that prevention guidelines for all major diseases (in particular, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and arthritis)
Provides expanded section on mental health in accordance with new data from Surgeon General and WHO.
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