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ACE's Guide to Resistance Training for Older Adults (DVD) by Cedric X. Bryant
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Exercise scientists and gerontologists now emphasize the importance of muscular fitness for older individuals. Impaired muscular functioning has been linked to many medical conditions and chronic ailments found in older adults. ACE's Guide to Resistance Training for Older Adults offers essential information fitness professionals need to provide older adults with safe and effective resistance training programming, from the importance of strength training to the special considerations that should be taken into account when designing strength training programs for older adults. Covers the rationale for resistance training for older adults, a functional capacity questionnaire, safety of resistance training for older adults, the ABC's of proper strength training techniques, the effects of resistance training on musculoskeletal, cardiometabolic, glycemic, blood lipid/lipoprotein and arterial blood pressure variables, as well exercise prescription guidelines and more. Produced in cooperation with the American Council on Exercise. 2004, 26 min.
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