A Guide to Exercise Prescription Jason Crookham, DO, CAQSM Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 801-820 (December 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002 Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Attributable risk of all-cause mortality. (Data from Blair SN. Physical inactivity: the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Br J Sports Med 2009;43(1):1–2.) Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice 2013 40, 801-820DOI: (10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002) Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 2 “Median” shape of the exercise dose-response curve. (From US Department of Health and Human Services. Physical activity guidelines for Americans. Available at: http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/Report/G1_allcause.aspx#figureg12. Accessed March 16, 2013.) Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice 2013 40, 801-820DOI: (10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002) Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 3 Flow chart for assessing readiness of exercise prescription. (Adapted from The Guidelines of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology; and Garber CE, Blissmer B, Deschenes MR, et al. Quantity and quality of exercise for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, and neuromotor fitness in apparently healthy adults: guidance for prescribing exercise. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2011;43(7):1334–59; and From Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) Form 2002. Available at: http://www.csep.ca/cmfiles/publications/parq/par-q.pdf. Accessed May 8, 2013; with permission from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.) Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice 2013 40, 801-820DOI: (10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002) Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 4 PAR-Q 7. (Source: Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR–Q) © 2002. Used with permission from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, www.csep.ca.) Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice 2013 40, 801-820DOI: (10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002) Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 5 ACSM risk stratification of patients. (Data from Jonas S, Edward M. ACSM's Exercise is Medicine: A clinician's guide to exercise prescription. Philadelphia: Kerry O'Rourke; 2009. p. 31–45, 198.) Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice 2013 40, 801-820DOI: (10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002) Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions