Product Description

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. There is a companion website for instructors that 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11000 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Updated Guidelines
These updated guidelines are must for any health professional involved with exercise or exercise prescription. Together with the ACSM's Resource Manual they form an indispensible resource. If you need more clinical guidelines you could also try CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY 2nd Ed. Ehrman, KJ, Gordon PM et al. An additional useful feature is that you get an access code to the publisher's site which gives you the text in electronic form.

Sport Science heaven
The best help for the sport science student! The essential guide to fitness testing and prescription

Helps a lot
This book is great not only for those who do fitness every day, but for those who are in other health area.

Book is like a journal, many authors, many different opinions and great for some statistics.

If you are looking into doing exercises or making an exercise plans for others, this book will be of a great help.