Read the case study below and answer the question thoroughly in paragraph form. Be specific in your answer. You may utilize the course presentations, lectures, and the textbook as resources. Your response must be in current APA format.
You are the assistant director of a fitness center (e.g. university, corporate, hospital, etc.), and your director, approaches you and asks for a detailed report regarding the five best methods to be utilized in your facility for assessing body fat percentage and body composition. You must explain to your director what methods might be the best for your specific facility. Be thorough in your response, yet keep potential financial constraints in mind. Also, provide details on the pros and cons of each choice that you consider.
Category: Fitness Assessment and Programming
Read the case study below and answer the question thoroughly in paragraph form. Be specific in your answer. You may utilize the course presentations, lectures, and the textbook as resources. Your response must be in current APA format. Include your name and LU student ID number at the bottom of the last page. Matt is a sedentary 51-year-old male and is employed as an executive at a large beverage corporation. He is responsible for all marketing aspects of the corporation in an extremely competitive environment. Matt is married and has three children, ages 15, 17, and 21. Matt feels the financial pressures associated with college bills (for his 21-year-old) and the desires to “keep up with the neighbors.” Matt’s father died of a heart attack at age 71and his mother, age 69, suffered a stroke four months after her husband’s death. Matt smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and recently experienced dizziness when climbing stairs. Thus, Matt decided to get a physical exam. The following values were obtained:
resting BP = 149/97 mmHg
total cholesterol = 199 mg/dl
HDL-C = 25 mg/dl
glucose = 90 mg/dl
Ht. = 71 in.
Wt. = 199 lbs. and body fat% = 32
Identify Matt’s primary and secondary risk factors. Also discuss what kind of non-pharmacological intervention program(s) Matt should begin.
Read the case study below and answer the question thoroughly in paragraph form. Be specific in your answer. You may utilize the course presentations, lectures, and the textbook as resources. Your response must be in current APA format.
If you were to conduct a submaximal aerobic capacity test, on an apparently healthy “college-aged” population, which test/modes (describe at least 3) and equipment would you use, and what types of data would you collect? Thoroughly justify your selections and be specific.