Pre-Exercise Screening for Health/Fitness Facilities DVD

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Produced in cooperation with the ACSM William Herbert, Ph.D, FACSM Virginia Tech 2007 US Price: $49.95 DVD | Length: 43 minutes 827008107391 The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association have strongly recommended pre-exercise screening for adults who want to start moderately vigorous exercise. Pre-Exercise Screening for Health/Fitness Facilities provides a stepwise plan for gathering information relevant to proper screening and the content is correlated to these ACSM/AHA recommendations. If used along with the ACSM/AHA recommendations, the guidelines presented in the DVD give health/fitness professionals an invaluable resource concerning how to effectively screen clients who want to participate in moderately vigorous exercise. Among the topics covered: Reasons to be concerned about screening, understanding, according to professional guidelines, which clients should be screened, using a risk/benefit model in reaching decisions in health/fitness screening, the health history and physical activity history; review of possible exertional signs/symptoms, and when to refer a client for evaluation by a personal physician or other health-care provider.

Produced in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

About the Author

William G. Herbert, Ph.D., FACSM, is Professor and Director for the Health & Exercise Sciences Laboratory in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech. He has over 25 years of experience in developing and managing community-based cardiac rehabilitation and health-fitness programs. He has taught and supervised graduate students, conducted research, and published on topics related to clinical aspects of exercise science and legal issues related to adult exercise programs. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and an ACSM-certified Director of Preventive and Rehabilitative Exercise Programs. He has been a contributor to recent editions of the ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription and the ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. He has served as Chair of the ACSM Committee for Certification and Education (1987-1990) and currently is Chair of the ACSM Clinical Exercise Physiology Practice Board.