ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

The information in this book is evidence based and the writing is easy to read and to understand. here are many tables that make it easy to understand or compare information. One thing I really like about this book is that it gives exercise prescription for many different types of population and for people with different comorbidities. It's a good reference book if you want to get the best and latest info on how to best prescribe exercise for your patients, clients of just for you own personal knowledge.

This is a very nice book for professionals that want to understand the basic things before prescribing an exercise to a sedentary person. There are some tips for advanced training but I think that it is more difficult to prescribe since the person has improved his or her capabilities in different ways. Everybody that wants to understand about the causes of cardiac, blood pressure, glicosis diseases and etc and how to prevent it or decrease the effects of the diseases should read this book.

I ordered this updated source, as my original one was from the mid-2000's. As usual, ACSM brings forth the best information, and most updated physiological information when it comes to exercise testing and prescription. I always look to them when giving advice, or training clients. And, I will keep looking to them in the future. I recommend this book for anyone who is a personal trainer, or is looking to go into personal training or testing clients in a clinical setting. ACSM is the gold standard, hands down.

This is an awesome manual - I'll probably keep it forever. ACSM is one of the leading fitness professional organization and you can feel confident that they have the most up-to-date and accurate information available. It is a fairly easy read compared to the typical 500+ page textbook. The only reason it gets 4 out of 5 stars is because within a month of getting it, the spiral-bound cover had already slipped off. Still a great value!

If you are doing anything in the exercise science/kinesiology field, this book is a must have. Great quick reference for personal trainers, strength and conditioning, diseased individuals/special populations, or just an overall health nut. I worked as an aid at a physical therapy clinic and was able to answer a lot of the patients' health related questions.

This is a very complete, thorough resource. It has evidence-based recommendations on who to test with what supervision, how to interpret tests, and how to design a plan for your clients/patients. As a future PT, this is a valuable resource that I'll want to keep and reference throughout the years. I was planning on grabbing an old edition, but my classmates convinced me and I'm not disappointed!

I'm in the process of studying this along with ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer in preparation for taking the certification exam. Overall, the material in the text is comprehensive. However, the reason I give the book only 3 stars is due to very small text size. I'm not a teeny-bopper any more and my eyes are not what they used to be, and the size of this text is quite user unfriendly. I can understand that the book is printed in the size it is to be a small, more handy reference source. However, it is a significant oversight not to provide alternative versions of the physical text (large spiral bound, for instance) and when I contacted the publisher, they weren't even remotely interested in hearing what I had to say, much less thinking about printing more user friendly options. That is the second strike with ACSM, who also cancelled a conference at the last minute that I was scheduled to attend. So while they may be considered a premiere source of Sports Medicine information, they don't rate very high on customer service and courtesy. But, if vision is not an issue for you, you will find the ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing & Prescription to be detailed and useful. Personally I continue to be astonished as I study materials from ACSM, NSCA and others at how differently what they teach is from the actual personal trainer landscape out in the field. When personal training becomes standardized and adheres to the high principles espoused in ACSM's Guide and other books, they will become quite valuable as part of a client's health & fitness team.

In great condition. Much better than paying for a brand new one. This one came with notes thanks to the previous owner.