Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription (4th ed)

A book to bridge the gap between research and practice, describing an approach to physical fitness testing and exercise prescription.

Professionals and students are shown how to select physical fitness tests, conduct physiological assessments and design individual exercise programmes and prescriptions. The text integrates important principles and theories in exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, psychology and measurement and then applies them to physical fitness testing and exercise programme design.