Fitness Professional’s Handbook, Seventh Edition With Web Resource,provides current and future fitness professionals with the knowledge toscreen participants, conduct standardized fitness tests, evaluate themajor components of fitness, and prescribe appropriate exercise. Thefully updated text uses the latest standards, guidelines, and researchfrom authorities in the field to prepare readers for certification andarm them with the knowledge to work with a variety of clients andpopulations. This full-color text incorporates information from the 10th edition ofACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription andthe Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans exercise andphysical activity recommendations for adults, older adults, children,and those with special needs. The text embraces the importance ofcommunication between allied health and medical professionals with thosein the fitness arena to provide readers with a foundation forprescribing exercise and delivering need- and goal-specific physicalactivity and fitness programs. Every chapter has been updated, allowing readers to explore the newesttheories and research findings and apply them to real-world situations.The following are among the most significant changes to the seventhedition: • An online video library containing 24 video clips help readers betterapply key techniques covered in the book • A web resource containing biannual industry updates and references andfillable forms provides a useful tool for students to use beyond theclassroom • A new chapter, “Training for Performance,” helps professionals expandtheir practice to work with recreational athletes who haveperformance-related goals • New information, including the consequences of exercise-induced muscledamage (rhabdomyolysis), devices used to track physical activity andestimate energy expenditure (e.g., accelerometers), relative flexibilityand the role of lumbopelvic rhythm in back function, the importance ofprogression in an exercise prescription, and the professional standardof care associated with HIIT programs reflects recent topics of interestand research • Updated statistics on CVD and CHD from the American Heart Association,adult and childhood obesity, and the prevalence of COPD, asthma,bronchitis, and emphysema ensure accurate representation of data • Chapter quizzes have been added to an updated ancillary package thatalso includes an instructor guide, test package, presentation package,and image bank Fitness Professional’s Handbook, Seventh Edition With Web Resource,contains a variety of learning tools to help students identify andretain key information. Objectives, key points, glossary terms, andchapter review questions guide students to important concepts, whileresearch insight boxes and procedures for common fitness tests drawattention to commonly sought information. Case study questions andanswers help readers apply the concepts to real-world scenarios.References are numbered and organized by chapter at the end of the bookto provide direction for more in-depth research. With a comprehensive and practical approach, this text enables readersto help individuals, communities, and groups gain the benefits ofregular physical activityy in a positive and safe environment. Itprovides background to the field, scientific fundamentals, andup-to-date recommendations to help readers better understand the role ofphysical activity in the quality of life and guidelines for screening,testing, supervising, and modifying activity for various populations.

Edward T. Howley, PhD, FACSM, FNAK, earned his bachelor’s degreefrom Manhattan College and his master’s and doctorate degrees from theUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison. He then completed a one-yearpostdoctoral appointment at Penn State University and was hired in 1970as a faculty member at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Howleytaught a variety of courses, including an undergraduate course infitness testing and prescription and undergraduate and graduate coursesin exercise physiology. He retired in 2007 and holds the rank ofprofessor emeritus.In addition to the previous editions of this book, Dr. Howley hasauthored three books, four book chapters, and more than 60 researcharticles dealing with exercise physiology, fitness testing, andprescription. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology andserved as chair of the Science Board of the President’s Council onPhysical Fitness and Sports in 2006-2007. In 2007-08 he served on thePhysical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee that evaluated thescience related to physical activity and health and generated a reportfor use by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to write the2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.Most of Dr. Howley’s volunteer efforts have been with the AmericanCollege of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He was involved in the development ofcertification programs and served as president in 2002-03. He served aseditor in chief of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal forseven years and as chair of the program planning committee for theannual ACSM Health and Fitness Summit meeting. In 2007, Howley wasrecognized for his professional contributions with the ACSM CitationAward. In his leisure time, he likes to golf, ride his bike, travel, andplay with his grandchildren.Dixie L. Thompson, PhD, FACSM, FNAK, is vice provost and dean ofthe graduate school at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and is aprofessor in the department of kinesiology, recreation, and sportsstudies. She graduated from the 2008 class of the Higher EducationResource Services (HERS) Bryn Mawr Summer Institute, held at Bryn MawrCollege. The Summer Institute is a professional development programdedicated to the advancement of female leaders in administration ofhigher education. She also participated in the 2009-2010 AcademicLeadership Development Program sponsored by the Southeastern ConferenceAcademic Consortium.Dr. Thompson focuses her research on the health benefits of exercise forwomen and techniques used for body composition assessment. She is theauthor of over 70 peer-reviewed publications and numerous articles forfitness professionals and general audiences. She is a former associateeditor in chief for ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal andformer editor in chief for ACSM's Fit Society Page Newsletter.Dr. Thompson is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine(ACSM) and a member of the ACSM Board of Trustees. She is a fellow ofthe National Academy of Kinesiology.?She is a past president of theSoutheast Chapter of ACSM and former chair of the Physical FitnessCouncil for the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,Recreation and Dance.Dr. Thompson received her BA in physical education and MA in exercisephysiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sheeaarned her PhD from the University of Virginia.

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