BASIC FITNESS AND ASSESSMENT

Author: Dr. R. Saravana Prabha . Mrs. S. Archana Mani Malathi

Basic Fitness and Assessment provides a comprehensive approach to fitness, physical fitness appraisal and exercise prescription. The text may bridge the gap between basic fitness and practice the concepts to provide a clearly defined approach to physical fitness testing and the design of individualized exercise programs. It will definitely enhance the learning experience and teach the techniques necessary for conducting fitness testing and program design.

Unlike introductory texts, which typically focus on field testing for evaluating physical fitness, this text includes both field and laboratory assessment techniques. Readers will find the latest information on maximal and submaximal graded exercise testing in healthy populations, muscular fitness testing protocols and norms for children and adults, and field tests and norms for evaluating cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and balance.

Basis Fitness and Assessment that organize around physical fitness components, provided information on assessment followed by guidelines for designing exercise programs to improve each fitness component. It contain in-depth coverage of assessment and exercise prescription for each of five physical fitness components: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness (strength, endurance, and power), body composition, flexibility, and balance.

ISBN: 978-93-84603-40-3

495

495