Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals
Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals

Author: Barbara Zabawa

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-16

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13:

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PROTECT YOURSELF, YOUR BUSINESS, AND YOUR CLIENTS! This ground-breaking, comprehensive textbook is the "go-to" resource for fitness managers and exercise professionals. Specifically written for a "lay" audience, this textbook is designed to help fitness managers and exercise professionals comply with the law, enhance fitness safety, and advance the exercise profession by describing: WHAT laws do fitness managers and exercise professionals need to know? WHY do fitness managers and exercise professionals need to know the laws? HOW do fitness managers and exercise professionals apply the laws? Learn from over 110 lawsuits that occurred in fitness facilities and programs. CONTENTS: PART I:OVERVIEW OF THE LAW, LEGAL LIABILITY, AND RISK MANAGEMENT Chapter 1:U.S. Law and Legal System Chapter 2:Creating a Safety Culture: Building a Comprehensive Risk Management Plan Chapter 3:Complying with Federal Laws: Honoring Legal Rights Chapter 4 :Negligence and Common Defenses to Negligence PART II:LEGAL LIABILITY EXPOSURES AND RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Chapter 5:Hiring Credentialed and Competent Personnel Chapter 6:Pre-Activity Health Screening and Fitness Testing Chapter 7:Exercise Prescription and Scope of Practice Chapter 8:Instruction and Supervision Chapter 9:Exercise Equipment Safety Chapter 10:Managing Facility Risks Chapter 11:Emergency Planning and Response SPECIAL FEATURES: Special features designed to enrich learning experiences and outcomes include: Descriptions of 30 "spotlight" legal cases including "lessons learned" from each case and over 80 additional cases Descriptions of effective risk management strategies to help protect fitness managers/exercise professionals and their organizations from legal liability In addition to negligence, liability issues addressing technological applications (e.g., virtual exercise, data privacy and biometric data/wearable technology), working with and/or partnering with the healthcare industry, and discrimination (e.g., disability, sexual harassment) Over 100 key points, tables, figures, and exhibits Numerous sample forms and documents Legal and risk management resources For textbook-related resources and educational courses, go to the publisher''s website: www.fitnesslawacademy.com. WRITTEN FOR: Fitness managers and directors, assistant managers/directors, and program coordinators employed in settings such as: Corporate -- Employer-sponsored Fitness/Wellness College/University -- Campus Recreation, Athletic Strength/Conditioning Commercial, for-profit -- Health Clubs, Resorts, Fitness Studios, Sport Performance Centers Community, non-profit -- YMCA, JCC Government -- Military, Firefighters/Police, City/County Recreation Hospitals/Medical Clinics -- Cardiac Rehab, Hospital-Based Fitness/Wellness Retirement Centers -- 55+ Communities, Independent Living Exercise professionals: Exercise physiologists, clinical exercise physiologists Personal fitness trainers Group exercise leaders Strength and conditioning coaches Fitness/wellness and health coaches Youth fitness instructors Leaders of first responder/military fitness programs Healthcare providers involved with the fitness industry: Physicians Physical therapists Dietitians Athletic trainers Legal and insurance experts involved with the fitness industry

Legal Division Handbook
Legal Division Handbook

Author: Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Legal Division

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13:

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"The mission of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) is to serve as the federal government's leader for and provider of world-class law enforcement training.

The Body Book
The Body Book

Author: Cameron Diaz

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-12-29

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0062482882

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Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection. Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day. The Body Bookdoes not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.

Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention
Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-08-08

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 0309210224

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Since 1980, childhood obesity rates have more than tripled in the United States. Recent data show that almost one-third of children over 2 years of age are already overweight or obese. While the prevalence of childhood obesity appears to have plateaued in recent years, the magnitude of the problem remains unsustainably high and represents an enormous public health concern. All options for addressing the childhood obesity epidemic must therefore be explored. In the United States, legal approaches have successfully reduced other threats to public health, such as the lack of passive restraints in automobiles and the use of tobacco. The question then arises of whether laws, regulations, and litigation can likewise be used to change practices and policies that contribute to obesity. On October 21, 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) held a workshop to bring together stakeholders to discuss the current and future legal strategies aimed at combating childhood obesity. Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention summarizes the proceedings of that workshop. The report examines the challenges involved in implementing public health initiatives by using legal strategies to elicit change. It also discusses circumstances in which legal strategies are needed and effective. This workshop was created only to explore the boundaries of potential legal approaches to address childhood obesity, and therefore, does not contain recommendations for the use of such approaches.

A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement
A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement

Author: Cary D. Rostow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1317825195

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While some books about police psychology contain a chapter on the fitness-for-duty question, this is the first comprehensive publication focused exclusively on psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations (FFDEs) for law enforcement personnel. This handbook is ideal for professionals and for coursework designed to prepare individuals for careers as police or municipal officials, psychologists, students, behavioral science specialists, human rights advocates, and attorneys. A helpful glossary makes the book even more useful for students and those who do not have extensive academic or formal training in psychology or public administration. A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement describes in detail the mechanics of setting up a fitness-for-duty methodology and examines the effectiveness of FFDEs in law enforcement. You’ll find clear instructions for developing a FFDE system from the law enforcement executive’s viewpoint (valuable for attorneys, police psychologists, and civil service board members as well), and an extensive bibliography with particular emphasis on laws and cases that provide guidance to psychological and law enforcement professionals. Several appendices provide examples of documentation that can be used in the evaluation process. This book brings you reliable information on: legal precedents, with a review of legal cases (in language appropriate for law enforcement executives and psychologists) the interaction between police culture, psychological assessment, and therapy federal laws that impact FFDEs, including the HIPAA, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act case law and FFDEs, with emphasis on civil rights laws, labor issues, professional ethical dilemmas, and the psychologist as a potential expert witness the proper uses—and the misuses—of the FFDE approach police departmental civil liability and the role that the FFDE plays in addressing legal risks In addition, this book contains a succinct review of psychological testing (psychometrics), and the technicalities of employing a professional psychologist to determine the fitness of commissioned officers. A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement proposes a model law that could be used to improve the utility and effectiveness of FFDEs, and presents a forward-looking discussion of FFDE issues that may become controversial in the near future.

The Little Book of Fitness Law
The Little Book of Fitness Law

Author: Cecil C. Kuhne (III)

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781627224789

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"Perhaps the only thing more dangerous than being out of shape is trying to get in shape. The misery begins, of course, with those dreaded exercise machines; from them emanates the excruciating pain of pounding into submission underutilized, citified muscles. And then comes the inevitable soreness of stretching into positions that the human body was really never meant to be stretched into. It makes you tired just to think about it. Luckily for the trial bar, the machines, aerobics, sports, equipment, and myriad ways of hurting oneself that arise from the workout has resulted in a healthy amount of litigation, and some of it is rather ... intriguing. In four sections - the health club, running, the sports world, and intellectual property - The Little Book of Fitness Law covers twenty cases that encapsulate all types of law. From falling off treadmills to being crushed by your gym's television, spotty spotters to traffic citations for running in the nude, this book has something for the fitness buff in all of us"--Unedited summary from book cover.

The Fitness of Law
The Fitness of Law

Author: J. B. Ruhl

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

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This article is the second in my series of articles exploring the application of complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to legal systems. Building on the model outlined in the first installment (in the Duke Law Journal), this work develops an evolutionary theory of legal systems as CAS. It suggests that long-term fitness of the legal system will require use of innovative, adaptive legal institutions and instruments.

Fitness to Plead
Fitness to Plead

Author: Ronnie Mackay

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0191092711

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The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law. While criminalization may be justified whenever an offender commits a sufficiently serious moral wrong requiring that he or she be called to account, the doctrine of fitness to plead calls this principle into question in the case of a person who lacks the capacity or ability to participate meaningfully in a criminal trial. In light of the emerging focus on capacity-based approaches to decision-making and the international human rights requirement that the law should treat defendants fairly, this volume offers a benchmark for the theory and practice of fitness to plead, providing readers with a unique opportunity to consider differing perspectives and debate on the future development and direction of a doctrine which has up till now been under-discussed and under-researched. The fitness to plead rules stand as an exception to notions of public accountability for criminal wrongdoing yet, despite the doctrine's long-standing function in criminal procedure, it has proven complex to apply in practice and has given rise to many varied legislative models and considerable litigation in different jurisdictions. Particularly troublesome is the question of what is to be done with someone who has been found unfit to stand trial. Here the law is required to balance the need to protect those defendants who are unable to participate effectively in their own trial, whether permanently or for a defined period, and the need to protect the public from people who may have caused serious social harm as a result of their antisocial behaviour. The challenge for law reformers, legislators, and judges, is to create rules that ensure that everyone who can properly be tried is tried, while seeking to preserve confidence in the fairness of the legal system by ensuring that people who cannot properly engage in the criminal trial process are not forced to endure it.

The 10 Undisputed Laws of Fitness Success
The 10 Undisputed Laws of Fitness Success

Author: Kawan Karadaghi

Publisher: Kawan Karadaghi

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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You Can’t Get Fit. Ever looked at yourself in the mirror and told yourself you can’t get fit? Have you ever heard those four words from someone when you described your vision to them? Are you interested in learning how fitness can affect every other facet of your life? Are you willing to set and follow some fundamental rules that will lead you to success? This book actually explains how fitness works, what you need to do, and why there's such a gap in fit and mediocre physiques. Why are there some individuals who experience outstanding success while others fall short? Stand in the mirror and be proud of what you see. Reading this book and applying the principles can help you get there by helping you understand the science of fitness so you can learn the hidden principles that lead to positive changes in your life. Fitness fads, trends, and diets come and go, however, the laws in this book are unchanging. Failure in fitness happens when programs, trainers, and gurus try to break the laws of natural processes that result in coming up short. There are laws in nature and the universe, fitness is not any different. Observe the Laws. Apply the Principles. Break the Rules. Succeed. By the end of this comprehensive book, you will be able to: -Learn what it takes to succeed once and for all. -Improve Your Strengths and Weaknesses. -Master the Fundamentals of Fitness and Success. Who is Kawan Karadaghi? After ten thousand hours of training, getting ten personal training certifications, and becoming the owner of six gyms, Kawan Karadaghi, a master personal trainer and the author of this insightful book, came into an eye-opening realization. He understood that the same laws that people follow in a fitness journey, can also be applied in every other aspect of life - be it a professional matter, a personal life issue, or a self-development aspiration. Kawan Karadaghi’s book focuses on the accepted elements that exist naturally in every human and serve as the foundation to build your life. It explains how incorporating these fitness laws into your life can help you make the most of these characteristics and attain fulfillment in all life fields.