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Fitness Professional's Handbook
Fitness Professional's Handbook
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The Fitness Professionals Handbook, Eighth Edition With HKPropel Access, provides current and aspiring fitness professionals with a road map for working with clients, translating key concepts into practical application through screening, fitness testing, evaluation, and exercise prescription. It reflects the latest research, position stands, guidelines, and standards from professional societies and government agencies, with new case studies and Research Insight sidebars covering a wide range of applicable scientific topics. Significant updates include an updated overview of assessment, a new chapter on combining assessment results with personal goals, expanded content on working with pregnant clients, updated content on chronic diseases, additional muscular fitness tests, pharmacology coverage, and neuromotor fitness. The engaging full-color textbook is further enhanced by 25 related online videos, delivered through HK Propel, facilitating a deeper understanding of techniques and development of practical skills.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 632 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2024
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Fitness Professionals Handbook, Eighth Edition With HKPropel Access, provides current and aspiring fitness professionals with the road map for working with clients. The text translates key concepts into practical application by guiding the reader through screening participants, conducting fitness testing, evaluating the major components of fitness, and prescribing appropriate exercise. This eighth edition reflects the most up-to-date research, position stands, guidelines, and standards from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), other professional societies, and government agencies. New case studies reflecting a diverse array of clients offer real-world applications, and Research Insight sidebars cover a wide range of applicable scientific topics. Significant updates, changes, and additions have been made throughout, including an updated overview of assessment that provides practical understanding of preparatory steps such as obtaining informed consent, taking steps to maximize client safety, and explaining test results in a way that will be meaningful and relevant. A new chapter on how to combine assessment results with a client's personal goals to create a comprehensive exercise program; readers will learn how to develop the optimal training stimulus and to balance activity level and nutritional requirements to optimize outcomes and safety for clients. Expanded content on working with clients who are pregnant, covering the benefits of exercise during and after pregnancy; contraindications and signs that warrant stopping exercise; and new content on pelvic floor training. Updated content on chronic diseases, featuring the latest information on cardiovascular disease.
Weight: 1752g
Dimension: 222 x 284 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781718217829
Edition number: Eighth Edition
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