ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (Eighth Edition)

✍ Scribed by American College of Sports Medicine

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The single most internationally read and referenced text in sports medicine, exercise science, and health and fitness, this manual succinctly summarizes recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased individuals. This gold-standard text is a convenient, one-stop resource for the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that must be mastered by candidates for all ACSM certifications. Written by international experts in numerous fields, the Eighth Edition is fully compatible with newly released physical activity guidelines from the United States Department of Health and Human Services and state-of-the-art, research-based recommendations. A companion Website for instructors will offer a test generator, an image bank, PowerPoint slides, and a WebCT/BlackBoard-ready course cartridge. A student Website will offer the fully searchable text.

✦ Table of Contents

00 Editors......Page 2
00e1 Dedication......Page 5
00e2 Preface......Page 7
00e3 Abbreviations......Page 10
01 Chapter 1 - Benefits and Risks Associated with Physical Activity......Page 17
02 Chapter 2 - Preparticipation Health Screening and Risk Stratification......Page 31
02 Chapter 3 - Pre-Exercise Evaluations......Page 53
04 Chapter 4 - Health-Related Physical Fitness Testing and Interpretation......Page 68
05 Chapter 5 - Clinical Exercise Testing......Page 121
06 Chapter 6 - Interpretation of Clinical Exercise Test Data......Page 150
07 Chapter 7 - General Principles of Exercise Prescription......Page 167
08 Chapter 8 - Exercise Prescription for Healthy Populations and Special Considerations......Page 181
09 Chapter 9 - Exercise Prescription for Patients with Cardiac Disease......Page 207
10 Chapter 10 - Exercise Prescription for Other Clinical Populations......Page 224
11 Section IV- Appendices......Page 268
12 Index-A......Page 400
12 Index-B......Page 405
12 Index-C......Page 408
12 Index-D......Page 412
12 Index-E......Page 414
12 Index-F......Page 420
12 Index-G......Page 421
12 Index-H......Page 422
12 Index-I......Page 424
12 Index-J......Page 425
12 Index-J1......Page 426