• As a fitness professional, you are well aware of many of the benefits of exercise in preventing chronic disease. But physical activity offers much more than prevention alone.
  
  
• Exercise can also be a powerful complement to traditional medical intervention and, in many instances, may allow a physician to significantly reduce a patient's drug dosage or eliminate the need for medicine altogether.
  
  
• You can play an integral role in educating your clients about the medicinal benefits of exercise and how they can speak with their primary care physicians about physical activity.

ACSM's Books in Support of Exercise is Medicine™

For Health & Fitness Professionals

For Your Clients

For Physicians

Additional Resources for Health & Fitness Professionals

National Exercise is Medicine Month™ of May - Mayoral Proclamation

National Exercise is Medicine Month™ of May - Governor's Proclamation

• Selected articles from the ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal
  • Involving the Physician in Medical Fitness: A Must for Success
  • ACSM Certification: The Evolution of the Exercise Professional
    
  • 10 Nice-To-Know Facts About Automatic External Defibrillators
  • Balanced Scorecards: Improving Your Outcome Measures
  • Chronic Heart Failure: The Next Wave
  • Combating Depression with Exercise
  • Differentiating Leg Pain in Exercise
• Exercise and Chronic Fatigue
• Exercise and Sleep
• Exercise During Pregnancy
• Role of Genetic Factors and Obesity
• Exercise in the Postpartum Period
• Exercise Prescription for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
• Injuries/Illness and Fitness
• Medical Emergency Procedures: Minimize Your Liability
• Menopause and Exercise
• Shortness of Breath in Exercise
• Slowing or Preventing Progression From Pre-diabetes to Diabetes
• The Challenge of Work and Family Balance
• The Exercise Caloric Challenge
• The Four Faces of Measurement
• The "Syndrome-X Factor"
• Working With New Clients
  
  
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  • The health, physical activity, fitness and sports information website of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  • Free, interactive physical activity and fitness website
  • PCPFS May Month Toolkit
  • President's Challenge Activity List
    
    
• Exercise is Medicine™ Kit for Health & Fitness Professionals (Coming Soon!)
  • Introductory letter to local physicians
  • Forms for use with both patients and physicians
    • Patient/client assessments and related forms
    • Physician communication materials
    • Patient/client education materials
  • CDC Barriers to Exercise Assessment
  • Exercise is Medicine™ brochure promoting EIM web resources