ACSM's health-related physical fitness assessment manual.
| Edition: | 3rd ed. / editor, Leonard Kaminsky |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, c2010. |
| Description: | xiii, 172 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8384279 |
| Summary: | From the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), this text 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. The Third Edition includes updated references to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Eighth Edition , more diagrams and pictures highlighting assessment techniques, and new material on physical activity assessments, considerations for medication usage, and common measurement errors. A companion Website includes an Image Collection, a Test Generator, and PowerPoint Slides. |
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| Item Description: | Companion v. to: ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription / American College of Sports Medicine. 8th ed. 2009. "American College of Sports Medicine." |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 172 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780781797719 0781797713 |
