ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

توضیحات

The reader of this edition of ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription will notice four innovations: there is less description; there are fewer references; there are more tables, boxes, and figures; and it is published simultaneously with ACSM’s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, ACSM’s Resources for Clinical Exercise Physiology, ACSM’s Certification Review Book, and ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities. It is for this last reason that the editors proposed that this edition become more of a guidelines book rather than a sole and inclusive resource.

Going back to the first edition, it was always the intention of this book to be an immediate source of information for health/fitness and clinical professionals. As more scientific and clinical information became available, the Guidelines book became thicker and the font smaller between editions 1 and 7.

Our goal was to improve the readability of the book so that the reader could easily find a guideline, a brief explanation, and a specific reference or two. We leave expanded explanations and full resourcing to the companion books now that they are published alongside these Guidelines.

We believe that this edition is in a more usable format for health/fitness and clinical exercise professionals, physicians, nurses, physician assistants, physical and occupational therapists, dietitians, and healthcare administrators.