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Fitness Leader's Handbook - 0880116544

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Edition: 2nd
Author: Franks, Howley
Pages: 272 (Paperback)
Year Published: 03/24/1998
Size: 8.5 x 11
U/M: Each

Item #: 0880116544

Fitness Leader's Handbook

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About the Product
With updated information and a fresh new design, the second edition of this practical, popular handbook makes an ideal reference for anyone charged with the task of leading a fitness class.

Written for those who haven’t had the advantage of formal training, Fitness Leader’s Handbook emphasizes "how to" rather than "why." It’s loaded with practical, usable tools and tips that make it easy for even a novice to conduct a successful fitness class:

Methods for evaluating and improving participants’ health and fitness
Fitness evaluation forms that instructors can copy and distribute to class participants
Information based on the latest research and major position statements, such as the Surgeon General’s Report: Physical Activity and Health and recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
Helpful hints for changing health-related behaviors
Injury prevention strategies
Program organizational strategies
Tips for dealing with special personal conditions and environmental problems
Ideas for handling the human relations side of exercise leadership
Sample programs
Much, much more

This easy-to-use text is organized into six sections, with over 90 illustrations that emphasize the methods and activities discussed. Part I deals with the fundamentals: What is physical fitness? How does it differ from performance? What are the components of a physical fitness program?

Part II addresses one of the primary responsibilities of any fitness leader: helping potential participants determine their current health status and decide on the first steps toward fitness. Part III provides a more complete analysis of the various components of fitness:

Body composition
Nutrition and weight control
Aerobic fitness
Muscular strength and endurance
Flexibility
Low back health
Stress reduction

In Part IV, the authors present the contents of a complete physical fitness program. Part V provides a brief overview of the scientific bases for fitness programs, and Part VI tells how to make every fitness program safe and effective.

Fitness Leader’s Handbook can be used alone or in conjunction with the guide for participants, Fitness Facts. With Fitness Leader’s Handbook as a guide, instructors can lead every class with confidence!

Audiences
Reference for entry-level health fitness instructors and exercise leaders; text for health fitness instructor courses. This text is written primarily for those with limited experience leading fitness classes; advanced health fitness instructors should refer to Health Fitness Instructor’s Handbook (Third Edition).

About the Author
B. Don Franks is a professor in and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland. Franks is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE), and the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). He is also a former president of AAKPE and the Research Consortium of AAHPERD. He was Senior Program Advisor for the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1995, and he received that group’s Distinguished Service Award the following year. He received his PhD in exercise science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Franks lives in Silver Spring, MD.

Edward T. Howley is a professor of exercise science at the University of Tennessee, where he frequently has been honored for his excellence in teaching. He has been active in the ACSM as a Fellow, as president of the southeast chapter, as chair of the certification committee, as a faculty member in the ACSM health fitness certification workshops, and as a member of the ACSM Preventive and Rehabilitative Committee, which developed the college’s various certification programs. Howley holds a PhD in physical education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and certification as a program director from the ACSM. He lives in Knoxville, TN.

Yuruk Iyriboz has been practicing medicine since 1964. Currently, he is the medical director at an urgi-care clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that emphasizes helping patients prevent major health problems through good nutrition, physical activity, and the use of medication only as needed. A fellow of the ACSM, Iyriboz earned his master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University in 1982. Since then, he has been teaching health sciences and exercise physiology at Louisiana State University. Iyriboz lives in Baton Rouge, LA.

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