Exercise Evaluation and Prescription

Carl Foster,Cristina Cortis,Andrea Fusco

doi:10.3390/jfmk6010031

Abstract

Ever since the farm boy, Milo of Crotone, lifted a growing bullock every day, to become the strongest man in the world, and six-time champion of the ancient Olympic Games, we have known about the principle of progression of exercise training [...].

Highlights

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Training intensity and duration were originally based on the relative percent concept of Karvonen, more contemporary approaches have emphasized threshold-based prescription [4], and on simple psychophysiological approaches like rating of perceived exertion [5] and the Talk Test [6]
Sometime in the intervening years, we learned about the concept of a “therapeutic window”, the dynamic space between the good effects and bad side-effects, such as myocardial infarction, that come from exercise training programs

Summary

Introduction

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. We learned that prescription of training was based on an evaluation of the potential exerciser, in order to pick an appropriate relative training intensity [2].

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