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Activity for Cardiovascular Health
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By
John Buckley, BPE, MSc, PhD, BASES, Accr, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Exercise & Nutrition Science, University of Chester; Founding Managing Partner,
Lifestyle Exercise & Physiotherapy Centre, Shrewsbury, UK
Jane Holmes, MCSP, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Physiotherapy Studies, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Gareth Mapp, BA(Hons), MSc, Sports and Exercise Science Consultant, Lifestyle Fitness, Shrewbury.
Description
Exercise on Prescription is a practical guide for all practitioners assessing, designing and implementing exercise programmes to improve cardiovascular health.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; The links between health, physical activity and exercise; Psychology: the keystone to activity and its role in
mental wellness; The science of aerobic exercise; The importance of understanding training status; Monitoring exercise responses with
heart rates, ratings of perceived exertion and blood pressure; Prescribing activity and exercise for health and for fitness using heart
rate and ratings of perceived exertion; Protocols for measuring and estimating aerobic capacity and VO2 Max; User friendly charts to
prescribe exercise with aerobic exercise machines from VO2 Max; Orthopaedic considerations for aerobic exercise; The health and exercise
consultation
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Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: DEC-1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-3288-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-3288-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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062/670
Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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