title: Exercise prescription for the healthy adult.
abstract: Physical fitness is improved by manipulating the mode, frequency, intensity, and duration of exercise and its rate of progression. Well-documented guidelines can assist the primary care physician in outlining training programs for their healthy patients who wish to begin an exercise program to maintain or improve their physical fitness.
mesh_terms: D005080:Exercise Test; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D010808:Physical Examination; D005082:Physical Exertion; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011674:Pulse; D013178:Sports Medicine