Barry Franklin, Ph.D,
FACSM, Wayne State University
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Barry Franklin, Ph.D,
FACSM, Wayne State University
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The Sport Ball Exercise Handbook provides participants and exercise leaders with practical ideas and fun-based games that are designed to enhance the various components of fitness.
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The Sport Ball Exercise Handbook: Innovative Activities for Adult Fitness and Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs was written to provide participants and exercise leaders with practical ideas and fun-based games that are designed to enhance the various components of fitness. The primary focus of each of the 126 activities presented in this book is to stimulate and maintain interest, enthusiasm, and motivation to maximize exercise compliance among program participants.
Featuring a "games-as-aerobics" approach to exercising, the book stresses fun, pleasure, and repeated bouts of success. Calisthenic and endurance-type activities are reconfigured as games, relays, or stunts. Ball handling and other motor/ movement skills are incorporated into each activity to add variety and diversity of purpose in each game. Whenever possible, game rules are modified to minimize skill and competition and maximize participant enjoyment. Accordingly, smiles and laughter often replace the grunting and groaning that may be associated with more traditional methods of exercising.
The first chapter reviews the basic steps involved in developing an exercise program that is safe, time-efficient, and effective. This chapter also includes an overview of recommended guidelines for exercise leaders who have decided to adopt the "games-as-aerobics" approach in their classes. Chapters 2 through 7 provide more than 100 clearly illustrated exercises and activities that are designed to enhance selected fitness components and motor skills (e.g., coordination, agility, balance, etc.)
Over the years, we have had the opportunity to evaluate and assess dozens of game-like activities. Some went well; others didn't. Those that were session-tested and well received are included in this book. If the activities in this book enable participants to experience the boundless benefits and joys of exercising, then the effort to write this book will have been well worth the time and energy involved.
Barry A. Franklin received his bachelor's degree from Kent State University, a master's free from the University of Michigan, and his doctoral degree in physiology from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Franklin has been the director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and Exercise Laboratories at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, since 1985. He served as President of the American Association Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation in 1988 and President of the American CoIlege of Sports Medicine, 1999-2000. With a passion for writing and research, he rues on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. Nevertheless, he still joys leading an occasional activity class for his patients.
Neil B. Oldridge, born and raised in South Africa, taught primary school physical Education after his undergraduate education at Rhodes University, South Africa sere he had fun experiencing many of the activities in this book. He then studied the University of Florida and the University of Wisconsin, Madison in those
extraordinarily eventful and influential years, the late 1960's and early 1970's. He started his academic career at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, returned to the University of Wisconsin system, and is now at Indiana University. His major search interest is in health services research, investigating of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation with a specific interest in health-related quality of life. He is a Past-President of the American College of Sports Medicine and a Founding Fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.Karl G. Stoedefalke is an active 70+ leader of physical activity who guides at-risk adults in safe, enjoyable exercise sessions. He continues to be professionally active conducting Elderhostel programs, lecturing in Exercise Science courses, and writing. His e-mail address is kgsl@psu.edu.
William E. Loechel has been professionally drawing medical, surgical, and pathological illustrations for 55 years. He was the recipient of a USPHS Grant in anatomy, was associated with Henry Ford Hospital, and retired from Wayne State University. Currently, he is a free-lance illustrator in Birmingham, Michigan.
The Sport Ball Exercise Handbook provides important information on the issues of exercise safety and compliance, and motivation to exercise. It clearly defines and illustrates new and innovative exercises that will complement existing cardiac rehabilitation and adult exercise programs. The authors have successfully described the exercises in a readable format.
Kathy Berra, MSN, ANP
Clinical Trial Director
Stanford Center for Research in Disease PreventionAn innovative and needed reference book for all cardiac rehabilitation staff. The authors have developed a text that clearly illustrates in great detail the exercise activities that can be effectively employed in adult exercise and cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Phil Wilson, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences University of Wisconsin-La CrosseThe Sport Ball Exercise Handbook, written by three internationally-recognized experts in exercise physiology and cardiac rehabilitation presents an invaluable compilation of well-illustrated exercises that are designed to enhance exercise adherence in adult fitness and cardiac rehabilitation programs. Their emphasis on exercise safety and exercise education, on moderate intensity lifelong activity, and on exercise diversity and enjoyment provides a welcome departure from the intense regimentation that previously characterized exercise programs.
Chris Cooper, M.D.
Professor of Medicine: and Physiology University of California at Los Angeles