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fitness assessment a complete resource for assessment and prescription audiences an upper undergraduate and graduate-level text for exercise science students in advanced courses dealing with physical fitness appraisal and exercise prescription a resource for health and fitness instructors exercise physiologists personal trainers and strength and conditioning specialists the fifth edition of advanced fitness assessment and exercise prescription provides a comprehensive and advanced approach to physical fitness appraisal and exercise prescription reflective of the updates made in the seventh edition of acsm s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription this text presents a well-balanced approach to the assessment of physical fitness addressing cardiorespiratory endurance muscular fitness body weight and composition and flexibility pedagogical tools a list of fitness assessment equipment and supply sources in each chapter and several new ancillary materials are some of the many features of this fifth edition packaged with this text is the supplemental online course cardiorespiratory fitness assessment and prescription the course helps to bridge the gap between research and practice by providing readers with the opportunity to work with virtual clients to test and assess cardiorespiratory fitness and design exercise programs to match their individual requirements and abilities advanced fitness assessment and exercise prescription fifth edition vivian h heyward phd ©2006 · hardback · 440 pp isbn 978-0-7360-5732-5 $72.00 99.50 cdn £47.50 uk incl vat 71.25 euro $145.00 nz ancillaries instructor guide contains a sample course outline four class projects three case studies guidelines for abstracts and presentations nine laboratory experiences formulas for calculations conversion factors commonly used in metabolic calculations three checklists for practical laboratory skills and sample practice problems including answers and solutions test package includes a bank of 204 questions in various formats true or false fill-in-the-blank multiple-choice and short-answer questions all ancillary materials are free to course adopters and available online at www.humankinetics.com/advancedfitnessassessmentandexerciseprescription presentation package includes approximately 80 powerpoint slides of tables photos special elements and appendix material from the book the presentation package is also available on cd-rom for windows or macintosh · isbn 978-0-7360-6448-4 $195.00 268.95 cdn £155.00 uk incl vat 232.50 euro $409.50 nz quick and easy reference for fitness performance and health norms norms for fitness performance and health contains a comprehensive collection of normative data for numerous fitness performance and health components it lays the foundation for working with normative data by detailing the purpose and benefits of norms the text provides data for a variety of populations and addresses specific fitness and health components the data also include norms for athletes as well as for specific civil service populations such as police firefighters and military personnel norms for fitness performance and health jay hoffman phd ©2006 · paperback · 232 pp · isbn 978-0-7360-5483-6 $34.00 46.95 cdn £22.00 uk 33.00 euro $67.00 nz discover the best methods and equations for assessing body composition applied body composition assessment second edition addresses the principles underlying the skinfold bioelectrical impedance near-infrared interactance and anthropometric methods of body composition assessment this second edition includes equations based on the latest research recommendations reflecting developments in body composition methods new material on measuring the body composition of clinical populations and several student learning aids applied body composition assessment second edition vivian h heyward phd and dale r wagner phd ©2004 · hardback · 280 pp · isbn 978-0-7360-4630-5 $52.00 71.95 cdn £35.50 uk 53.25 euro $109.00 nz ancillaries all ancillary materials for this text are free to course adopters and available online at www.humankinetics.com/appliedbodycompositionassessment ancillaries include · instructor guide · test package 800 747-4457 us · 800 465-7301 cdn · 44 0 113-255-5665 uk · 09 448-1207 nz 11

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