ACE's Guide to Exercise Testing and Program Design

ACE'S Guide to Exercise Testing & Program Design: A Fitness Professional's Handbook. Second Edition, is a reference that you will utilize throughout your career in the fitness industry, whether you are a long-time personal trainer or a newly certified group fitness instructor. In addition to thorough reviews of aerobic and musculoskeletal testing and training, this book provides advice and guidelines specific to those special populations that fitness professionals arc most likely to encounter, from diabetes and asthma to fibromyalgia and obesity. New to this second edition are three chapters of case studies that test your ability to turn theoretical knowledge into practical programming techniques, as well as a new chapter that ties all the guidelines and theories together into a comprehensive approach to program design.