From the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), ACSM's Health-Related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual provides 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 features:

• a new chapter on postural analysis and body alignment assessments
• new photographs of key assessments and techniques
• updated references to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Seventh Edition

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Pre-Activity Screening
3. Resting and Exercise Blood Pressure and Heart Rate
4. Body Composition
5. Muscular Fitness: Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, and Flexibility
6. Postural Analysis and Body Alignment Assessments
7. Cardiorespiratory Fitness Management
8. Laboratory Submaximal Exercise Testing
9. Maximize Exercise
10. Maximal Exercise Testing
11. Interpretation of Assessment Results: Case Studies

Appendices

• Conversions
• Risk Stratification Cases
• Forms

Index

click here to see books • videos • cd-roms of related interest