ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Other Authors: Pescatello, Linda S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, [2014]
Edition:Ninth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Benefits and risks associated with physical activity
  • Preparticipation health screening
  • Preexercise evaluation
  • Health-related physical fitness testing and interpretation
  • Clinical exercise testing
  • Interpretation of clinical exercise test results
  • General principles of exercise prescription
  • Exercise prescription for healthy populations with special considerations and environmental considerations
  • Exercise prescription for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease
  • Exercise prescription for populations with other chronic diseases and health conditions
  • Behavioral theories and strategies for promoting exercise.