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ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer
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ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer

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This valuable resource is the official ACSM preparatory tool for The ACSM Certified Personal TrainerSM exam. It provides essential, foundational expertise for professionals involved in developing and implementing an individualized approach to exercise leadership in healthy populations and/or those individuals with medical clearance to exercise. It covers the fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) used to improve, maintain, and/or optimize health-related components of physical fitness and performance. This resource includes information on writing appropriate exercise recommendations, leading and demonstrating safe and effective methods of exercise, and motivating individuals to begin and to continue with their healthy behaviors.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
39768
9780781787451
9780781787451

Data sheet

Publication date
2004
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
151
Dimensions (mm)
213 x 276
Weight (g)
395

  • INTRODUCTION

EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY AND RELATED EXERCISE SCIENCE

  1. Bone, Skeletal Muscle, and Connective Tissue
  2. Anatomy of the Cardiovascular System
  3. Anatomy of the Respiratory System
  4. Biomechanical Principles
  5. Aerobic and Anaerobic Metabolism
  6. Normal, Acute Responses to Cardiovascular Exercise
  7. Normal, Chronic Physiological Adaptations Associated with Cardiovascular Exercise
  8. Normal, Acute Responses to Resistance Training
  9. Normal, Chronic Physiological Adaptations Associated with Resistance Training
  10. Physiologic Principles Related to Warm-up and Cool-down
  11. Muscle Fatigue.
  12. Detraining

EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AND PROGRAMMING

  1. General Principles of Fitness
  2. Muscular Strength and Endurance
  3. Exercise Recommendations for Flexibility and Range of Motion
  4. Specificity of Exercise Training and Testing
  5. Medical Complications of Exercise

HUMAN BEHAVIOR

  1. Principles for Changing Health Behaviors
  2. Methods for Changing Health Behaviors
  3. Communication Skills

HEALTH APPRAISAL, FITNESS EXERCISE TESTING

  1. Preparticipation Health Appraisal in the Nonmedical Setting
  2. Cardiorespiratory Assessment of Apparently Healthy Populations
  3. Assessment of Muscular Strength and Endurance
  4. Flexibility and Range of Motion
  5. Body Composition

SAFETY, INJURY PREVENTION, AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

  1. Benefits and Risks Associated with Exercise
  2. Preliminary Screening
  3. Recommendations to Reduce the Incidence and Severity of Complications during Exercise
  4. Emergency Procedures and Exercise Safety
  5. Death and Cardiac Arrest
  6. Musculoskeletal Injury
  7. Exercise-Related Injuries
  8. Injury Prevention
  9. Emergency Procedures
  10. Evaluation Skills
  11. Contraindicated and High-Risk Exercises

NUTRITION AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

  1. Choosing a Healthy Diet May Prevent Disease
  2. Specifics on Weight Management.

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

  1. Equipment
  2. Legal and Business Considerations
  3. Health and Fitness Programming:: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation

CLINICAL AND MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Risk Factors
  2. Basic Principles of Electrocardiography (ECG)
  3. Lung Diseases
  4. Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Conditions Seen in Clients
  5. Medications

APPENDICES
Scope and Practice
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

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