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Proper Exercise is Prescribed Exercise!

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Prescribed ExercisePrescribed Exercise is the I.A.R.T. landmark book, and a certification resource for our Fitness Clinicians. This 400-page hardcover text is a concise resource that covers the fundamentals of exercise science and the relationship of principles, the details behind the exercise elements (movement, rep, set, workout, routine, and cycle), using logical analysis to design exercise programs and to discover an ideal measure of exercise strain for each individual, application of set variables, program cycling for long-term gains, discussions on stress physiology, intricacies of warm-up application, working around injuries with exercise substitutions, detailed strategic goal-setting, and more.

"Brian Johnston's work is thought provoking and will allow the reader, who implements the training information, to achieve optimal results. Logical thinking... a must read for people interested in quality information and not just typical training fluff." Ted Lambrinides, Ph.D.

Prescribed Exercise Is About Balancing the Equation

Prescribed Exercise is a complete book that tackles all the fundamental issues of balancing the principles, how those principles should relate, developing a program in a practical setting, and how to think about the data collected from the program. Most people couldn't even name the fundamental principles of exercise science, whereas this book teaches you to understand the concepts of intensity, volume, frequency, progression, specificity, diminishing returns, and individualism so that these abstract concepts can be implemented practically and expertly.

Technical Excellence

Prescribed Exercise includes an extensive section on proper mechanics of exercise, technical skill analysis methodology, breathing, and detailed instruction on 33 exercises and their variations.

Detailing the Elements

Discussions on the concepts of exercise movement, repetition, set, workout, routine, cycle, and goal development may seem pretty standard, but Prescribed Exercise boasts almost 100 pages to these topics. Addressed are multi- vs. single-joint movements, multi-angle training, anatomical/active/target range-of-motions, repetition velocity/time/cadence, lockouts vs. continuous tension, repetition pauses, determining tension time, testing for rate of fatigue, determining the load and rest intervals of a set, application of over 25 different set variables, determining ideal frequency, cycling and long-term planning methods, the principles & strategies of goal setting, and much more.

What is Your Exercise Direction?

Whether your focus is powerlifting, bodybuilding/sculpting, cardiovascular endurance, or attempting a physique transformation, Prescribed Exercise tackles exercise direction with a passion, including unusual and unique muscle building strategies, leverage techniques to lift the most weight relative to a person's body shape and structure, and determining whether cardiovascular endurance is beneficial and to what extent should it be implemented.

Achieve Your Best

Besides offering detailed chapters on sport psychology and injury prevention through proper mechanics, Prescribed Exercise teaches you about searching for the optimum, and what it means to over-reach as opposed to over-train, analyzing programs through relationship comparisons of collected data, recognizing patterns, and utilizing this information to plan future exercise programs.

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