Product Description

This comprehensive text provides coverage of fitness assessment concepts, hands-on prescription applications, and a thorough preparation for ACSM certification exams. Exercise testing and prescription are presented within a health-related context that provides the latest research findings on exercise and nutrition, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and aging.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289238 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 816 pages

About the Author
David Nieman is a professor of health and exercise science, and director of the Human Performance Lab at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. His research focus during the past twenty years has been exercise immunology, with a secondary emphasis on sports nutrition, obesity, aging, and nutritional assessment. Dr. Nieman has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books and is a member of eight journal editorial boards including his role as a section editor for Mosby’s YearBook of Sports Medicine. He is the author of nine books on exercise, nutrition, and health. Dr. Nieman sits on the medical advisory board for the Bally Total Fitness Corporation, served two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology, and was elected as a basic and applied science trustee for the American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. Nieman has run 58 marathons and ultramarathons, and was an acrobatic gymnast and coach for 10 years. His marathon PR is 2:37, and he has run the Pikes Peak Marathon twice, with a 16th place finish.

Customer Reviews

exercise and testing prescription
I was very unhappy with the time it took to receive the book, I paid extra for expedited and did not get it for 14 days. I ordered a used book from EBAY and sent in regular mail and received it in 4 days!

Great for Trainers
This book is great for anyone interesteed in the personal training field. It is filled with a lot of great insight and facts and also has the testing norms in the back.