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""""This book is full of good advice on the health benefits of regular physical activity. It provides information about specific exercises and activities, helps you increase your motivational readiness, and gives you the behavioral skills to become more active. Use this material to permanently increase your physical activity and reap the enormous health benefits that will result."""
Steven N. Blair, PED, FACSM
Former president American College of Sports Medicine
"From SJSports.com"
So if you are just getting started this is the book for you.
"From WomenRunners.com"
Bottom line: This book is geared to the new exerciser striving to reach a basic level of fitness..Good basic book for your library.
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Steven N. Blair, PED, FACSM
Former president American College of Sports Medicine
"From SJSports.com"
So if you are just getting started this is the book for you.
"From WomenRunners.com"
Bottom line: This book is geared to the new exerciser striving to reach a basic level of fitness..Good basic book for your library.
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Start where you are and go wherever your goals take you. No other guide offers a more comprehensive plan for developing a personal fitness program and sticking with it. Developed by the American College of Sports Medicine, "ACSM Fitness Book" offers the total package from one of the most respected organizations in the field.
In its first two editions, the "ACSM Fitness Book" sold more than 100,000 copies. Now the classic has been enhanced and expanded with the tools you need to succeed. From simple, step-by-step instruction to new insights on nutrition, weight control, motivation, and overcoming setbacks, the authors provide the help you need to reach beyond your personal best.
The key to making any fitness program effective is finding the right level of difficulty for your current ability and creating a plan that will take you to the next level. With a simple and scientifically proven fitness test, the "ACSM Fitness Book" gives you everything you need to determine your starting point and monitor your ongoing progress. With sample programs, worksheets, and more, "ACSM Fitness Book" takes the guesswork out of getting started and offers color photos of a variety of exercises that require minimal equipment and space.
Whether your objective is to improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, or overall body condition, the "ACSM Fitness Book" will lay out a proven plan for reaching your goal in a way that works for you. Richly illustrated and easy to follow, it is the one book you need for the tools, and the motivation, to put your personal fitness program on track.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This book is only suitable for those with little or no understanding of nutrition, calorie expenditure etc.
To be honest your money, especially for keener athletes, would be better spent on a more advanced text. For someone who finds themselves unfit and overweight and doesnt quite understand why, it would prove a useful starting point.
To be honest your money, especially for keener athletes, would be better spent on a more advanced text. For someone who finds themselves unfit and overweight and doesnt quite understand why, it would prove a useful starting point.
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ACSM Fitness Book
4 July 2005
This is a basic fitness book for people who have not been active, or who have been somewhat active but not consistently. It is definitely a "start where you are" book, with lots of good basic information about how to get started for those who are a little nervous about it. It would be a great book for health professionals to direct their patients who need to get moving to. There is a chapter on goal setting that is very realistic. The 6 week program starts at a very basic level, but there are more advanced levels for those who can take it. It is non-judgmental in tone. It is not for those who have been active for a while, but it serves it's intended purpose very well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
ACSM Fitness Book
26 April 2008
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This book is an update of a book I have had and used for years. It is excellent--thorough and clearly written.
recommended by Dr. Mackenzie, Schutzhund trainer
7 Jan 2011
Recommended by Dr. Stephen A. Mackenzie, professor and police K9 trainer, in his book Decoys and Aggression: A Police K9 Training Manual.
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