Fitness & Your Health has been written to satisfy the general education requirement for physical education. In many colleges and universities students are given the option to take a class that focuses on fitness and health issues. Fitness & Your Health uses a physical fitness approach to educate the student on the most important health issues of our time.
Fitness & Your Health features:
- Illustrations and tables which reinforce fitness and health information presented
- Health and Fitness Insight sections focusing on a topic of current interest
- Chapter summaries highlighting important chapter information
- Health and Fitness Activities - self-assessment questionnaires, surveys, testing activities, or other practical assignments
- Chapter quizzes used to help students prepare for class exams
- A pictorial outline of recommended exercise calisthenics, human anatomical charts, and an extensive glossary in the appendices
- Supplementary materials - instructor PowerPoint presentations for each chapter and TestPak with more than 200 questions for preparing quizzes and exams
Preface
PART ONE An Introduction to Health and Fitness
Chapter 1 Health and Exercise in America
Chapter 2 The Meaning of Physical Fitness
PART TWO Testing for Physical Fitness
Chapter 3 Before You Start Exercising
Chapter 4 Assessment of Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Chapter 5 Body Composition Measurement
Chapter 6 Assessment of Musculoskeletal Fitness
PART THREE Conditioning for Physical Fitness
Chapter 7 An Exercise Program for Total Fitness
Chapter 8 Nutrition, Health, and Physical Performance
PART FOUR Physical Activity, Health and Disease Prevention
Chapter 9 Prevention of Heart Disease
Chapter 10 Prevention and Treatment of Obesity
Chapter 11 Stress Management and Mental Health
Appendices:
Appendix A – Calisthenics for Development of Flexibility and Muscular Strength and Endurance
Appendix B – Major Bones, Muscles, and Arteries of the Human Body
Glossary
Index