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Aimed at health and fitness professionals who want to learn about the latest advances in physical fitness, this text is a reference full of practical advice for every health and fitness student, candidates preparing for the ACSM Health Fitness Instructor Certification Exam and practicing professionals. It provides the latest information on the fundamentals of fitness, exercise physiology and biomechanics. It should help the reader develop meaningful and safe fitness programmes, including exercise for special populations. This edition has a strong focus on assessment, testing and calibrating testing equipment for programmes, and to ensure participant safety as well as expanded coverage of exercise prescription for special populations - including clients with special needs and health conditions, youth and the elderly.
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Edward T. Howley is a professor of exercise science at the University of Tennessee, where he frequently has been honored for his excellence in teaching. He received the university’s College of Education John Tunstall Outstanding Professor Award in 1995 and 1987, the University of Tennessee Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award in 1987, and the George F. Brady Teaching Award in 1979 and 1986.
Howley holds a PhD in physical education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and certification as a Program Director from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). In addition, he has been active in the ACSM as a Fellow, as President of their Southeast Chapter, as a chair of their certification committee, as a faculty member in their Health/Fitness certification workshops, and as a member of the ACSM Preventive and Rehabilitative Committee that developed the college’s various certification programs.
B. Don Franks received his PhD in exercise science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1967, while working under fitness pioneer T.K. Cureton, Jr. He served on the UIUC faculty until 1970 and later taught at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He was Senior Program Advisor for the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1995. Currently he is a professor in and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at Louisiana State University.
Franks is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE), and the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). He is also a former president of AAKPE and the Research Consortium of AAHPERD, where he advocated a "health-related" approach to physical fitness and helped to develop the first Health-Related Physical Fitness Test. Franks has received many honors, including the AAHPERD Physical Fitness Council Honor Award and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports’ Distinguished Service Award. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Bought as a present for my fitness-instructor-to-be son, this book was ideal to flick the dust off distant memories of my training college days as a p.e. student whilst at the same time understanding the more up-to-date phrases he uses. this book analyses both medical and physiological attitudes to physical well-being as well as touching on the psychological outcomes. I'd thoroughly recommend this book to those wishing to work on their own as well as the fitness of others. Fred Ovey
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