Senior Fitness Test Manual

Senior Fitness Test Manual
Author: Roberta E. Rikli
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2013
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1450411185

This work details a test that is suitable for measuring the fitness levels of older adults. It includes performance standards and tables for evaluating individuals according to their age and gender.

ACSM's Exercise for Older Adults

ACSM's Exercise for Older Adults
Author: Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2014
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1609136470

"ACSM's Exercise for Older Adults is a new book designed to help health and fitness professionals guide their older clients to appropriate exercise programs"--Provided by publisher.

Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, 2E

Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, 2E
Author: Rose, Debra J.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2019
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1450431062

Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive text available for current and future fitness professionals who want to design and implement effective, safe, and fun physical activity programs for older adults with diverse functional capabilities.

Senior Fitness Test Kit

Senior Fitness Test Kit
Author: Roberta E. Rikli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2001
Genre: Exercise for older people
ISBN: 9780736033589

The Senior Fitness Test Softwareis a companion resource to the Senior Fitness Test Manual. It aids the user in tracking the test scores of older adults, comparing the scores to national norms, and printing useful reports on participants' functional fitness levels. The software offers calculators and several options for reports that can be used in conjunction with the Senior Fitness Test. Anyone who administers the test will find the Senior Fitness Test Softwareto be a great resource for accurate and efficient record keeping. System Requirements * IBM PC compatible with Pentium® processor * Windows® 95/98/NT4/2000 * At least 16 MB RAM with 32 MB recommended * 2x CD-ROM drive * 32 MB hard drive space * Printer (optional) * 256 colors * VGA color monitor * Sound card and Speakers (optional) * Mouse

ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription
Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1609136055

The flagship title of the certification suite from the American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription is a handbook that delivers scientifically based standards on exercise testing and prescription to the certification candidate, the professional, and the student. The 9th edition focuses on evidence-based recommendations that reflect the latest research and clinical information. This manual is an essential resource for any health/fitness and clinical exercise professional, physician, nurse, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapist, dietician, and health care administrator. This manual give succinct summaries of recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased patients.

Senior Fitness Test DVD

Senior Fitness Test DVD
Author: Human Kinetics (Organisme)
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2006-02-23
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780736065399

The Senior Fitness Test DVD is a companion resource to the Senior Fitness Test Manual. It shows how to administer the test battery properly to both individuals and groups. It is particularly useful in training volunteers or peer mentors who work with the test administration. The Senior Fitness Test DVD illustrates how to conduct seven individual fitness test items involving common activities such as getting up from a chair, walking, lifting, bending, and stretching. It also explains what equipment is needed to conduct the test items, provides safety tips, and demonstrates how to score each test item. The Senior Fitness Test is the answer to the need for a simple, easy-to-use battery of tests to assess the functional fitness of older adults. The test is safe and enjoyable for older adults, it meets scientific standards for reliability and validity, and it has accompanying performance norms based on actual performance scores of over 7,000 men and women between the ages of 60 and 94. The Senior Fitness Test DVD underscores the importance of measuring the functional fitness of older adults and identifying people who are at risk for loss of functional mobility. Use this DVD to train peer mentors in order to expedite group testing.

Bending the Aging Curve

Bending the Aging Curve
Author: Joseph F. Signorile
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0736074457

Table of Contents: The aging curves Testing Training principles Body composition Flexibility Bone, falls, and fractures Muscular strength, power, and endurance training Cardiovascular training Periodized training.

ACSM's Health-related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual

ACSM's Health-related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual
Author: Gregory Byron Dwyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780781734714

This new text from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) contains information necessary to develop skills for assessing an individual’s health-related physical fitness. It provides the reader with a practical "how-to-do-it" approach for performing these assessment skills effectively, and an understanding of the theory behind and the importance of each skill or assessment. Reported errors associated with each test are also given, and a step-by-step instruction of the skills is provided in order for the reader to gain proficiency through practice. Illustrations and tables supplement the text and enhance learning.

Senior Fitness

Senior Fitness
Author: Ruth E. Heidrich
Publisher: Lantern Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1590562070

The senior years don't have to be filled with aches and pains. At age seventy, Ruth Heidrich has the bone mass density of a woman in her early thirties and a resting heart rate of forty-four. Since being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of forty-seven, she has won more than nine hundred athletic trophies and medals and has been cancer-free for more than twenty years. In Senior Fitness, the "other" Dr. Ruth shows how to maintain and even increase physical and sexual fitness at any age--and dramatically reduce the risk of prostate cancer, varicose veins, osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's, and a host of other ailments and diseases. Full of detailed medical information, this inspiring handbook is the ideal resource for all those seeking to make life after fifty full of fun and dynamism.

Pilates Mat Training

Pilates Mat Training
Author: Shirley Sugimura Archer
Publisher: Healthy Learning
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2004
Genre: Exercise
ISBN: 9781585189151

Explains the proper technique for 30 different exercises, along with the benefits and risks associated with each. Modifications are provided for various special populations, and sample workouts are included to help fitness professionals create balanced, safe routines. Exercise science is also covered as it applies to this fitness modality. Includes over 80 photographs and illustrations. Shirley Archer, J.D., M.A., is a certified Pilates and yoga instructor, group fitness instructor, and personal trainer, and has been a fitness professional for more than 20 years and a wellness professional for 14 years. She is a health educator with the Health Improvement Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. Archer is an international presenter and the author of numerous books.