American College of Sports Medicine

The ACSM Certified Health Fitness Specialist (HFS) is a degreed health and fitness professional qualified to pursue a career in university, corporate, commercial, hospital, and community settings. The HFS is skilled in the following:

• Conducting risk stratification.
• Conducting physical fitness assessments and interpreting results.
• Constructing appropriate exercise prescriptions for healthy adults and individuals with controlled conditions released for independent physical activity.
• Motivating apparently healthy individuals with medically controlled diseases to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyle behaviors.
• Motivating individuals to begin and continue with their healthy behaviors. - acsm.org

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