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Advanced fitness assessment and exercise prescription
- Author
- Heyward, Vivian H.
- Title
- Advanced fitness assessment and exercise prescription / Vivian H. Heyward.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 5th ed.
- Published
- Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2006.
- Description
- xiii, 425 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006011631.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-416) and index.
- Contents
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- Physical activity, health and chronic diseases
- Physical activity, health, and disease
- Cardiovascular disease
- Hypertension
- Hypercholesterolemia and dyslipidemia
- Cigarette smoking
- Diabetes mellitis
- Obesity and overweight
- Metabolic syndrome
- Musculoskeletal diseases and disorders
- Review material
- Preliminary health screening and risk classification
- Preliminary health evaluation
- Testing procedures for blood pressure, heart rate, and electrocardiogram
- Sources for equipment
- Review material
- Principles of assessment, prescription, and exercise program adherence
- Physical fitness testing
- Basic principles for exercise program design
- Exercise program adherence
- Certification and licensure
- Review material
- Assessing cardiorespiratory fitness
- Definition of terms
- Graded exercise testing
- Maximal exercise test protocols
- Submaximal exercise test protocols
- Field tests for assessing aerobic fitness
- Exercise testing of children and older adults
- Sources for equipment
- Review material
- Designing cardiorespiratory exercise programs
- The exercise prescription
- Aerobic training methods and modes
- Personalized exercise programs
- Review material
- Assessing muscular fitness
- Definition of terms
- Strength and muscular endurance assessment
- Sources of measurement error in muscular fitness testing
- Additional considerations for muscular fitness testing
- Muscular fitness testing of older adults
- Muscular fitness testing of children
- Sources for equipment
- Review material
- Designing resistance training programs
- Types of resistance training
- Developing the resistance training programs
- Effects of resistance training programs
- Muscular soreness
- Review material
- Assessing body composition
- Classification and uses of body composition measures
- Body composition models
- Reference methods for assessing body composition
- Field methods for assessing body composition
- Sources for equipment
- Review material
- Designing weight management and body composition programs
- Obesity, overweight, and underweight
- Obesity
- Weight management principles and practices
- Designing weight management programs
- Designing weight-loss programs
- Quick weight-loss diets and precautions
- Designing weight-gain programs
- Designing programs to improve body composition
- Review material
- Assessing flexibility
- Basics of flexibility
- Assessment of flexibility
- Flexibility testing of older adults
- Sources for equipment
- Review material
- Designing programs for flexibility and low back care
- Training principles
- Stretching methods
- Designing flexibility programs
- Designing low back care exercise programs.
- Subject headings
- Physical fitness--Testing. Exercise tests. Health.
- Medical subjects
- Physical Fitness--physiology. Exercise Movement Techniques. Exercise Test.
- ISBN
- 0736057323 (hard cover) 9780736057325 (hard cover)