The 8th edition of ACMS's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription is your convenient, one-stop resource for all the knowledge, skils and abilities (KSA's) you need for ACSM credentialing.  Long considered to be the Gold Standard in sports medicine, exercise science, and health and fitness, this concise manual gives succinct summaries of recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased patients.  Today is on eof the single most internationally read and referenced texts of its kind and is fully compatible with newly released physical activity guidelines from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The manual is an essential resource for any health/fitness and clinical exercise professional, physician, nurse, physicians assistant, physical and occupational therapist, dietitian, and health care administrator.