Aimed at health and fitness professionals who want to learn about the latest advances in physical fitness, this text is a reference full of practical advice for every health and fitness student, candidates preparing for the ACSM Health Fitness Instructor Certification Exam and practicing professionals. It provides the latest information on the fundamentals of fitness, exercise physiology and biomechanics. It should help the reader develop meaningful and safe fitness programmes, including exercise for special populations. This edition has a strong focus on assessment, testing and calibrating testing equipment for programmes, and to ensure participant safety as well as expanded coverage of exercise prescription for special populations - including clients with special needs and health conditions, youth and the elderly.
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Edward T. Howley, PhD, is a professor of exercise science at the University of Tennessee, where he frequently has been honored for his excellence in teaching. He received the university’s Alexander Prize for Teaching and Scholarship in 1999, the College of Education John Tunstall Outstanding Professor Award in 1995 and 1987, the University of Tennessee Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award in 1987, and the George F. Brady Teaching Award in 1979 and 1986. Most recently, he received the Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin and the Gatorade Sports Science Institute’s Excellence in Education Award.
Howley holds a PhD in physical education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and certification as a program director from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He is currently the president of ACSM and has previously served as president of their Southeast Chapter. He has been active in ACSM’s certification committee activities and was an associate editor of the sixth edition of the ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription.
B. Don Franks received his PhD in exercise science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1967 while working under fitness pioneer T.K. Cureton Jr. He served on the UIUC faculty until 1970 and later taught at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He was senior program advisor for the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1995. Previously, he was professor in and chair of the department of kinesiology at Louisiana State University. Currently, he teaches kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Franks is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE), and the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). He is also a former president of AAKPE and the Research Consortium of AAHPERD, where he advocated a health-related approach to physical fitness and helped to develop the first Health-Related Physical Fitness Test. Franks has received many honors, including the AAHPERD Physical Fitness Council Honor Award and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports’ Distinguished Service Award.
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net oxygen cost, net caloric cost, decreasing walking phase, health fitness instructor, dynamic resistance training, backward pelvic tilt, unsupervised program, pedal rate, pelvic positioning, lateral abdominal muscles, exercise testing laboratory, fractional grade, graded exercise test, same work rate, treadmill grade, fitness participants, fitness test scores, isokinetic training, recovery leg, maximal aerobic power, maximal stroke volume, resistive torque, submaximal work, cycle ergometer, horizontal flexion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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net oxygen cost, net caloric cost, decreasing walking phase, health fitness instructor, dynamic resistance training, backward pelvic tilt, unsupervised program, pedal rate, pelvic positioning, lateral abdominal muscles, exercise testing laboratory, fractional grade, graded exercise test, same work rate, treadmill grade, fitness participants, fitness test scores, isokinetic training, recovery leg, maximal aerobic power, maximal stroke volume, resistive torque, submaximal work, cycle ergometer, horizontal flexion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Health Fitness Instructor's Handbook, American College of Sports Medicine, United States, Exercise Lite, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, Mobitz Type, National Research Council, Daily Values, Human Behavior, Injury Common, Mon Wed Fri, President's Council, Van Camp, American Psychiatric Association, Untrained Trained, Women Excellent New!
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- Recommended Dietary Allowances: 10th Edition (Dietary Reference Intakes) by Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the Recommended Dietary Allowances on 4 pages
- Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews by John O. Holloszy on 4 pages
- Sports Medicine (British Medical Bulletin) by J. B. King on 4 pages
- Exercise Physiology by Roy J. Shephard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Exercise Physiology by Victor L. Katch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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