ESSA's Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment

Description:

ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport assessment is an essential text for students and exercise clinicians wishing to accredit with ESSA as exercise scientists.

Written by former ESSA President Jeff Coombes and clinical exercise physiologist Tina Skinner, this book provides everything students need to achieve competency in ESSA Standard 7, Health Exercise and Sport Assessment. It contains in-depth and well-articulated methodology for all tests, data recording tables and normative values, and case study analyses.

Each of the 21 chapters addresses key health and fitness assessments used to evaluate health, fitness and performance. With easy-to-follow practicals throughout, this book has been updated to reflect current best practice and recent advances such as wearable devices and smartphone apps.

New To This Edition:

• New Static and Dynamic Posture practical
• New Test Accuracy, Reliability and Validity practical
• New activities reflecting recent advances in the field
• Increased focus on the interpretation, feedback and discussion of the data collected during the assessment with the participant

Table Of Contents:

    1.    Test accuracy, reliability and validity
    2.    Blood analysis
    3.    Cardiovascular health
    4.    Physique assessment
    5.    Physical activity
    6.    Pre-exercise health screening
    7.    Neuromuscular strength, power and strength endurance
    8.    Static and dynamic posture
    9.    Flexibility
   10.   VO2max
   11.   Submaximal testing for cardiorespiratory fitness
   12.   Lactate threshold
   13.   High-intensity exercise
   14.   Nutrition
   15.   Functional measures
   16.   Exercise capacity
   17.   Pulmonary function
   18.   Resting and exercise electrocardiography (ECG)
   19.   Data analysis