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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
- 6th ed.
- Published
- Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2010.
- Description
- xiii, 465 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Health. Physical fitness--Testing. Exercise tests.
- Medical subjects
- Physical Fitness--physiology. Exercise Movement Techniques. Exercise Test.
- ISBN
- 9780736086592 (hard cover) 0736086595 (hard cover)