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Educational Resources

Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals

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Physical Fitness: Guidelines for Safe and Effective Exercise

Physical Fitness: Guidelines for Safe and Effective Exercise

This 32-page booklet, written by two leading authorities in exercise science will benefit fitness participants and fitness professionals.

1. Benefits for fitness participants:

• Provides instruction on important safety principles

• Includes education on basic fitness concepts

• Presented in a user-friendly format - easy, quick to read and understand

2. Benefits for fitness professionals:

• Provides important information to review with new members/clients during Facility Orientations - a unique benefit to your facility

• Helps minimize legal liability by carrying out your legal duty to provide proper instruction*

• Promotes a "safety culture" in your facility

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Rule the Rules of Workplace Wellness Programs, 2nd Edition

• Must have legal resource for professionals who work with workplace fitness/wellness programs

• Authors: Barbara J. Zabawa, JD, MPH and JoAnn M. Eickhoff-Shemek, Ph.D.

• Publisher: American Bar Association, 2021

    • Purchase at: Amazon or American Bar Association

• Check out the Wellness Compliance Institute (WCI -- https://www.wellnessci.org/) for information about a Continuing Education Program that accompanies the Rule the Rules book

Additional Educational Resources -- All are FREE

  1. Featured Articles and Legal Columns (n=33) that Dr. JES authored (or co-authored) covering a variety of legal/risk management topics in ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal between 1997 and 2017 can found in full text at: ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal Articles -- Dr. JES lead or co-author
  2. Legal Columns (n=20) authored by Dr. Anthony Abbott covering a variety of legal/risk management topics in ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal between 2011and 2019 can found in full text at: Legal Columns -- Dr. Abbott
  3. Fitness Law Academy Newsletter: “Free” quarterly newsletter – subscribe on the Newsletter page.
  4. Interested in Sport Law? Subscribe to a "free" newsletter (Sports Facilities and the Law) at: https://sportsfacilitieslaw.com
  5. Articles on a variety of legal and risk management topics for fitness managers and exercise professionals also available at: 
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