Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation: A Physiological Perspective

Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation: A Physiological Perspective discusses the importance of a sound resistance training program and looks at the evolution of the basic process by which resistance training became an integral element of the exercise regimen recommended by ACSM. The DVD also provides an overview of the disability syndrome and the affect that resistance training and exercise can have in countering it. In addition, DVD reviews the results of a number of studies involving resistance training and details how the results of those investigations indicate that resistance training can have a positive impact on both health and rehabilitation.

• Introduction
• Benefits of Physical Activity
• Know Benefits of Resistance Training
• Disability Syndrome
• Epidemiology of Low-Back Pain
• Questions and Answers