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  1. Consult your professional/s for treatment and rehabilitation as these are academic principle guidelines only and not prescriptive.
  2. ASSIC does not dispense medical and/or exercise advice.
  3. Consult your professional regarding exercise, treatment and rehabilitation exercise regimes and medical advise.
  4. The contents of the following web page are principle guidelines and must be utilized under the supervision of a relevant medical and/or exercise professional.
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Exercise:

  • Activity has health benefits with improvement in function and wellbeing
  • Maintaining a healthy lifestyle by incorporating regular exercise improve cardiorespiratory performance with muscular strength and endurance
  • Specific exercises cause specific adaptations in the cardiorespiratory and muscular systems
  • Assessing fitness and strength adaptation ensures ongoing improvement or deterioration of function levels
  • Routine fitness testing is conducted in sports to assess athletic performance progression or deterioration
  • A baseline assessment provides a way in which an individual can maintain or improve function

Exercise physiology

Exercise and muscle adaptations:

  • Resistance exercise training causes muscle to increase in size & strength
  • Muscle energy systems adapt with improvement in the energy utilization systems
  • Muscle strength & endurance performance can be tested and monitored over time
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Muscle strength:

  • Muscle strength adaptation is measured using standardised testing parameters
  • Muscle conditioning for general wellbeing or after an injury or surgical intervention can be maintained using ASSIC strength app

Exercise prescription:

  • Exercise intensity (dose) can be prescribed for general well being, sport specific level of activity or for specific medical conditions

Testing Exercise prescription

  • Exercise prescription for general well being: Aerobic exercise
  • Sport specific exercise prescription
  • Exercise prescription for specific medical conditions:
    • Weight loss
    • Hypertension
    • Diabetes
Muscle hypertrophy
Muscle hypertrophy. Muscle strength & endurance

Fitness Testing

  • Improving or deteriorating fitness is monitored with HR change measurements.
  • Exercise fitness testing includes measuring recovery HR after an exercise session
  • The recovery HR is recorded and exercise progression can be assessed based on the initial testing level
  • ASSIC recovery HR app allows recovery HR testing to assess fitness levels
  • ASSIC fitness app allows recovery HR testing in addition to measuring exercise intensity to assess target HR during exercise and to assess intensity ensuring standardised exercise testing parameters have been met

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