Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines

Introduction

Part 1

1.1 Professional Competency and Working with Others

1.2: Physiological Exercise Testing: Ethical Considerations

1.3: Health and Safety in Duty of Care: Evaluating and Stratifying Risk

1.4: Safeguarding in Physiological Testing

1.5: Influence of Medication on Typical Exercise Response

Part 2

2.1: Data Intelligence and Feedback in a Clinical Context

2.2: Reliability and Measurement Error

2.3 Scaling: Adjusting Physiological and Performance Measures to Body Size

Part 3

3.1: Participant Pre-test Preparation and Evaluation

3.2: Maintenance and Calibration Standards: A Cornerstone of Laboratory Quality Assurance

3.3: Lung and Respiratory Muscle Function

3.4: Surface Anthropometry

3.5: Functional Screening

3.6: Assessment of Free-living Energy Expenditure

3.7: Respiratory Gas Analysis

3.8: Metabolic Threshold Testing: Interpretation and Prognostic Prescriptive Value

3.9: Ratings of Perceived Exertion

3.10: Clinical Strength Testing

3.11: Blood Sampling

3.12: Field Based Assessments for Determining Aerobic Fitness and Exercise Prescription

3.13: Quantifying Free-living Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours in Adults

3.14: Musculoskeletal Assessment

Part 4

4.1: Assessment of Peripheral Blood Flow and Vascular Function

4.2: Application of Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry

4.3: Assessment of Cardiac Structure and Function

4.4: Methods in Exercise Immunology

4.5: Skeletal Muscle Biopsy: Techniques and Applications

Part 5

5.1: Exercise Testing in Obesity

5.2: Exercise Testing in Cardiovascular Disease

5.3: Exercise Testing in Diabetes

5.4: Exercise Testing in Chronic Kidney Disease

5.5: Exercise Testing in Chronic Lung Disease

5.6: Exercise Testing in Breast and Prostate Cancer

5.7: Exercise Testing in Peripheral Arterial Disease

5.8: Exercise Testing in Children

5.9: Exercise Testing in Older Adults

5.10: Exercise Testing in Females

5.11: Exercise Testing in Pregnancy

5.12: Exercise Testing in Heart Failure