Acsm's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

W Kenney

ISBN 10: 0683000233 / ISBN 13: 9780683000238

Published by Lea & Febiger, 1995

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Paperback Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Acsm's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription
• Publisher: Lea & Febiger
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0683000233
• ISBN 13: 9780683000238
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This text provides the latest information on health screening, physical fitness, clinical testing and procedures for affecting health behaviour. It also includes the certification knowledge, skills and abilities that must be met by candidates for each of ACSM's certification levels. This edition contains: expanded coverage of healthy adults, including standard fitness tests with normative data; greater detail on healthy "special populations" such as children, pregnant women and the elderly; testing and prescription information for pulmonary patients; quantitative, tabular data - threshold values, clinical lab cutoffs considered abnormal, normative fitness data, useful monograms, and more; expanded treatment of environmental considerations; appendices on ECG interpretation and metabolic calculations.