Chapter 12 - Interpreting Client Information Flashcards
What are the healthy height and weight scales based on?
The ideal weights for each height range are based on the lowest calculated mortality rates for people from the ages 25 to 59.
What is the purpose of medical screening tools?
Knowing medical history of a client can help you to understand when you may need to make a referral or when you need more information about a particular medical thing.
List the main metabolic outcomes that occur with advancing age.
As people age it may lead to a decrease in overall metabolic rate as well as a decrease in carbohydrate intolerance. Pancreatic enzyme release also diminishes with age.
Why is skinfold testing the preferred method for body composition and assessment?
Skinfold measurements enables you to track regional changes in body fat.
The location of changes in skinfold measurements can provide clues about clients hormonal environment.
What information do girth measures provide?
Girth measurements in conjunction with skinfold’s can provide information about what kind of decrease whether it’s a fat loss or a lean muscle gain.
Why would using a client information sheet to ask clients about their goals be important?
You can discover first where clients think their fitness priorities lie; second, whether they are patient; and third, how realistic they are when starting their program.
It also helps clients to think about their goals and timelines and become more goal aware.
Why is it important to know the clients prior exercise habits?
First, it will help explain the measurements you very collected. Second, this information will help shape your device.
What unique health concerns may shift workers face?
Stress hormone levels are higher and shift workers which depresses immune function well increasing the risk for health, catabolic hormone dominance, abdominal fat storage.
It is also difficult for shift workers to have regular scheduled meals regular sleep and exercise.
What type of effects do antidepressant, anti-anxiety, and birth-control medications have on body composition and health?
Depending upon the medicine it may be difficult to lose fat when on those drugs.
When someone doesn’t grocery shop on a regular basis, what might occur?
If they shop infrequently, they likely eat out a lot, Buy few natural foods and/or are consistent with their intake.
List the most common adult food in tolerances.
Eggs, milk, fish, nuts, corn, gluten, dairy, fructose, yeast
What is the purpose of using the kitchen, social support, and readiness for change questionnaire?
Helps you determine the clients limiting factors, where to help them make changes, or perhaps where to make new supporting friends.
Also helps to determine the rate of change and suggestions you give to a client.
Explain the most important practical difference between questionnaires and assessments.
The questionnaires are designed to help to plan the initial program you put together for clients, the assessments help you to collect the baseline information that enables comparison in the future.
Assessments are meant to be used repeatedly To assess change.
What is the purpose of regular client assessments?
It will help you to know if program is actually producing desired result; improvements in health, body composition, and performance. Lack of progress can be a result of poor client’s parents, or programming, or some combination of the two..
If highe adherence but little progress will need to change the program. But if low adherence is low perhaps your approach needs to be changed.
List and highlight the key factors for each nutritional level.
Level 1:, people who are completely new to eating well type of client needs slow coaching and basic food education and basic habit development.
Level 2: People who have a basic understanding the guidance. This type of client typically needs to learn more about moderating overall calorie intake, establishing correct portion sizes for their body type, and eating the right foods at the right times of the day.
Level 3: People who eat the right foods in the right amounts at the right times. These people may need detailed calorie and macronutrient information and specific strategies for making outcome dietary decisions
