Get Fit, Stay Fit
7th Edition
Published on 30. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8036-4464-9 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to take control of your own well-being.
Get Fit, Stay Fit, 7th Edition and FitnessDecisions.com work together to show you how to create a complete fitness and wellness program you can follow from beginning to end or refer to whenever you need expert advice. You'll find both the motivation and scientific knowledge you need to develop your own personal plan for healthy living and to make physical activity an integral part of that plan. You'll also explore the roles of stress management, sleep, and nutrition in achieving your goals.
Now in full color, the 7th Edition of this popular text introduces you to the diverse range of physical fitness activities that can become a part of healthy living at any level of ability.
Get Fit, Stay Fit, 7th Edition and FitnessDecisions.com work together to show you how to create a complete fitness and wellness program you can follow from beginning to end or refer to whenever you need expert advice. You'll find both the motivation and scientific knowledge you need to develop your own personal plan for healthy living and to make physical activity an integral part of that plan. You'll also explore the roles of stress management, sleep, and nutrition in achieving your goals.
Now in full color, the 7th Edition of this popular text introduces you to the diverse range of physical fitness activities that can become a part of healthy living at any level of ability.
More details
Edition
Seventh Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
220 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8036-4464-9 (9780803644649)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Professor, Coordinator, Sports Medicine Program, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Content
1. Getting Fit: Why Should You Care?
2. Creating A Healthy Lifestyle
3. Starting Your Own Fitness Program
4. Developing Cardiorespiratory Fitness
5. Improving Muscular Strength, Endurance, and Power
6. Increasing Flexibility Through Stretching
7. Eating Right to Fuel the Body
8. Developing and Maintaining a Health Body Image Through Diet and Exercise
9. Practicing Safe Fitness
10. Becoming A Wise Consumer
Appendix: Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) Recommended Intakes for Individuals
Get Fit, Stay Fit, 7th Edition Labs
1-1 Importance of Physical Activity
1-2 Daily Fitness Schedule
2-1 Your Personal Stress Inventory
2-2 Health Style: A Self-Test
3-1 Medical History Questionnaire
3-2 Planning for a Physical Activity Program
4-1 Calculating Target Heart Rate
4-2 The Rockport Fitness Walking Test
4-3 Cooper's 12 -minute Walking/Running Test
5-1 Push-ups
5-2 Bent-Knee Sit-ups
5-3 Muscular Endurance Test
6-1 Trunk Flexion
6-2 Trunk Extension
6-3 Shoulder Lift Test
7-1 Nutritional Knowledge Survey
7-2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits
7-3 7-Day Diet Analysis
7-4 Calculating Caloric Intake
8-1 Calculating Body Mass Index (BMI)
8-2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits
8-3 Determining Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
8-4 Calculating Caloric Expenditure
8-5 Calculating Caloric Intake
8-6 Worksheet for Estimating Caloric Balance
View the Reviewers & the full Table of Contents here.
2. Creating A Healthy Lifestyle
3. Starting Your Own Fitness Program
4. Developing Cardiorespiratory Fitness
5. Improving Muscular Strength, Endurance, and Power
6. Increasing Flexibility Through Stretching
7. Eating Right to Fuel the Body
8. Developing and Maintaining a Health Body Image Through Diet and Exercise
9. Practicing Safe Fitness
10. Becoming A Wise Consumer
Appendix: Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) Recommended Intakes for Individuals
Get Fit, Stay Fit, 7th Edition Labs
1-1 Importance of Physical Activity
1-2 Daily Fitness Schedule
2-1 Your Personal Stress Inventory
2-2 Health Style: A Self-Test
3-1 Medical History Questionnaire
3-2 Planning for a Physical Activity Program
4-1 Calculating Target Heart Rate
4-2 The Rockport Fitness Walking Test
4-3 Cooper's 12 -minute Walking/Running Test
5-1 Push-ups
5-2 Bent-Knee Sit-ups
5-3 Muscular Endurance Test
6-1 Trunk Flexion
6-2 Trunk Extension
6-3 Shoulder Lift Test
7-1 Nutritional Knowledge Survey
7-2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits
7-3 7-Day Diet Analysis
7-4 Calculating Caloric Intake
8-1 Calculating Body Mass Index (BMI)
8-2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits
8-3 Determining Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
8-4 Calculating Caloric Expenditure
8-5 Calculating Caloric Intake
8-6 Worksheet for Estimating Caloric Balance
View the Reviewers & the full Table of Contents here.