| Description |
xiii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| 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 muscular fitness -- Designing resistance training programs -- Assessing body composition -- Designing weight management and body composition programs -- Assessing flexibility -- Designing programs for flexibility and low back care -- Assessing balance and designing balance programs |
| Summary |
Built around physical fitness components, this updated edition shows readers first how to assess each component and then how to design exercise programs based on that assessment |
| Notes |
Previous ed. published: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-456) and index |
| Subject |
Exercise tests.
|
|
Exercise therapy.
|
|
Health.
|
|
Physical fitness -- Testing.
|
|
Physical Fitness -- physiology.
|
|
Exercise Movement Techniques.
|
|
Exercise Test.
|
| LC no. |
2009051573 |
| ISBN |
0736086595 (hard cover) |
|
9780736086592 (hard cover) |
|
