The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) and the Physical Activity Readiness
Medical Evaluation (PARmed-X) are internationally known preparticipation screening tools …

Discussion The new pre-participation risk stratification strategy was designed to enhance
the ability of fitness and health care professionals to reduce the barriers to becoming …

High blood pressure (BP) is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The
identification of high BP is conventionally based on in-clinic (resting) BP measures …

Background: The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+) is the
international standard for pre-participation risk stratification and screening. In order to …

What need is there for a systematic history of health and fitness? Certainly, our libraries
already contain many excellent books that chronicle the disciplinary history of physical …

Aim Providing effective support for students with mental health concerns is a priority on post-
secondary campuses. Recreational programming including physical activity is an evidence …

This chapter is designed to provide a summary of the current consensus on evidence-based,
best practice guidelines for safe and effective preparticipation screening and risk …

Positive affective responses are positively associated with exercise behavior. Thus,
researchers have focused on identifying strategies that are most effective at optimizing …

Objective In obesogenic states and after exercise, interleukin (IL)‐6 elevations are
established, and IL‐6 is speculated to be an appetite‐regulating mechanism. This study …

Some evidence indicates that ischemic preconditioning (IPC) may positively affect
endurance exercise performance, but IPC's effect on running performance is unclear. This …