Chronic Fatigue: Your Complete Exercise Guide (Cooper Clinic and Research Institute Fitness Series)

Labeled "the mystery malady of the 1990s," chronic fatigue accounts for millions of visits to the doctor each year--yet many more people with the condition never seek medical help. If you have chronic fatigue this book is for you!

In Chronic Fatigue: Your Complete Exercise Guide, you will find a clear description of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome, essentials on designing an exercise program to fit your capabilities, guidelines for safe exercise, four complete exercise programs, and a unique Health Points System to help you maintain motivation and gauge your progress.

Chronic Fatigue: Your Complete Exercise Guide offers a safe and effective exercise program that sets you on a lifelong course of reduced fatigue and improved health. Use it as a basis for discussion with your doctor and as a guide to help you work moderate exercise into your daily routine.

This book is part of The Cooper Clinic and Research Institute Fitness Series--the first series that provides a complete and sensible exercise program to overcome or reduce a chronic medical condition. Other topics in the series include arthritis, diabetes, breathing disorders, and stroke. Dr. Neil F. Gordon, the series author, is widely regarded as a leading medical authority on exercise and health. He is the director of exercise physiology at the internationally renowned Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Neil F. Gordon is widely regarded as a leading medical authority on exercise and health. Before receiving his master's degree in public health from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989, Dr. Gordon received doctoral degrees in exercise physiology and medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also served as medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology for 6 years at I Military Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.

Since 1987, Dr. Gordon has been the director of exercise physiology at the internationally reknowned Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas. He has also written over 50 papers on exercise and medicine. Dr. Gordon is also coauthor of the book Don't Count Yourself Out: Staying Fit after Thirty-Five with Jimmy Connors.

Dr. Gordon is a member of the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). He also has served on the board of directors for AACVPR, the Texas Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and the American Heart Association (Dallas affiliate).