Practical Body Composition-NTSC Kit

by Human Kinetics

" This is the ideal kit for health and fitness professionals, physical educators, coaches, and others who want to learn to accurately assess body composition. The Practical Body Composition Kit provides you with the basic information and tools you need to accurately measure the percent body fat of students, health club members, and other clients. It includes -the Practical Body Composition Video (1/2"" VHS version), which shows how and where to measure skinfold thicknesses and circumferences, -calipers to measure skinfold thicknesses, -the Practical Body Composition Guide , -a tape to measure circumferences, and - Practical Body Composition Software for calculating percent body fat.
The Practical Body Composition Guide included with the kit provides you with essential information on -why body composition assessment is important, -how body composition is measured, -how to conduct skinfold or circumference measurements for individuals and in large group settings, -how to calculate percent body fat, and -how to help clients and students understand the measurements and use the information to improve their health and fitness.
This practical kit will help health and fitness professionals new to body composition assessment provide an increasingly important service to their clients. It also gives excellent tools to physical educators who want to assess physical education outcomes in their students and to coaches who want to help their athletes stay in top physical condition. Whether your setting is the classroom, clinic, or gym, the Practical Body Composition Kit gives you all the basic information you need to accurately measure percent body fat. System The Practical Body Composition Software is an MS-DOS program and will run only on those operating systems that have a DOS mode. This software will not run on XP. "

Hardcover

First published July 15, 1998