The ACSM’s own manual for how fitness assessments should actually be performed — organised by component of fitness and by type of test.

ACSM’s Fitness Assessment Manual, Sixth Edition, builds directly on the standards set out in ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 11th Edition, and turns them into procedure. It covers body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness and flexibility, alongside maximal and submaximal exercise testing, ECG interpretation and metabolic calculations — the assessments that define competent practice in the fitness and rehabilitation professions.