Exercise Prescription

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Statin and exercise prescription.

Peter Kokkinos and colleagues (Feb 2, p 394) describe the interactive eff ects of fi tness and statins on mortality risk in veterans with dyslipidaemia. They report that increasing physical activity and statins independently lowers lipid levels and total mortality, but that the combination of these interventions is superior to either alone. The authors conclude that prescription of physical act...

Exercise prescription--North American experience.

The principles of exercise prescription are reviewed with respect to North American experience. The required regimen must be safe, therapeutically effective, and ensure a high rate of compliance. Precautions to increase the safety of exercise are discussed. Cardiac emergencies are sufficiently rare events (less than 1 in 200,000 hours even in post-coronary classes) that the need for immediate m...

Considerations for an Exercise Prescription

The development of an effective exercise prescription for long-duration space flight depends on the identification and understanding of various characteristics of the physiological response to muscular work in microgravity. We need to establish the optimum combination of intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of exercise that will be required to maintain normal cardiovascular reflexes, fluide...

Knowledge of exercise prescription guidelines among certified exercise professionals.

This survey assessed the knowledge of the "Guidance for prescribing exercise" issued by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in 2011 among certified exercise professionals. A sample of 1,808 certified exercise professionals (66.70% women, mean (± SD) age = 38.28 ± 12.56 years) responded to electronic invitations. The 11-question online questionnaire assessed knowledge of the recommend...