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Powerful cultural images often put pressure on men and women to have unrealistic expectations about the body they want to achieve. Body Image and Fitness Training details how exercise professionals can promote healthy attitudes about the body, better understand the health syndromes associated with a distorted body image, and help individuals prevent and deal with body-image issues.
Among the topics covered:
- Cultural impact on body image
- Gender-related body-image pressures
- Health problems related to body-image issues
- Creating a positive training environment concerning body-image issues
- Promoting healthy attitudes about the body
- When and how to refer clients to other professionals for assistance with body-image issues
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Biography
- Robyn M. Stuhr, MA, is the executive vice president of the American Council on Exercise (ACE). With more than 20 years experience in health promotion, business, and occupational health, sports medicine, and cardiac rehabilitation, Robyn is responsible for the development and management of overall programming and services of ACE in alignment with corporate goals and objectives while providing leadership and direction for all business activities. Previously, she was the administrative director and exercise physiologist at the Women’s Sports Medicine Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Robyn has a master’s degree in exercise physiology and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a health/fitness director and exercise test technologist and is a contributing editor to ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal.
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