ACSM's Health-Related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual

by Wolters Kluwer

• ISBN13: 9780781775496
• ISBN10: 0781775493
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

Summary

From the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), this text provides the reader with the information necessary to develop skills for assessing an individual's health-related physical fitness. It provides a practical "how-to-do-it" approach for performing assessment skills effectively, and an understanding of the theory behind and the importance of each skill or assessment. This edition has a new chapter on postural analysis and body alignment assessments, new photographs of key assessments and techniques, and updated references to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Seventh Edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Pre-Activity Screening	p. 13
Resting and Exercise Blood Pressure and Heart Rate	p. 27
Body Composition	p. 43
Muscular Fitness: Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, and Flexibility	p. 63
Postural Analysis and Body Alignment Assessments	p. 77
Cardiorespiratory Fitness Measurement: Step Tests and Field Tests to Predict Cardiorespiratory Fitness	p. 97
Laboratory Submaximal Exercise Testing: YMCA Cycle Ergometer Test, Astrand Cycle Ergometer Test, and the Bruce Submaximal Treadmill Test	p. 105
Maximal Exercise Testing	p. 125
Interpretation of Assessment Results: Case Studies	p. 139
Conversions	p. 157
Risk Stratification Cases	p. 159
Forms	p. 171
Index	p. 185
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