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Originally posted by chrisnz
Kinda Off-Topic: What's the ACSM?
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American College of Sports Medicine. for all intents and purposes, they're the organization that sets the standards for care involving exercise and exercise prescription. so if you were a personal trainer or exercise physiologist, or worked in some other area of exercise or exercise testing (like heart stress tests), their guidelines are generally used in court as the benchmark... if you followed their guideliens and something went wrong (ie. person got injured, etc), you'd be found to not be negligent because you followed the standard of care for the industry.
http://www.acsm.org