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Fitness and Your Health

Fitness and Your Health

Author(s): David C Nieman

Edition: 9

Copyright: 2021

Pages: 400

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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

David C Nieman

David Nieman is a professor in the Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, at Appalachian State University, and director of the Human Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, NC. Dr. Nieman is a pioneer in the research area of exercise and nutrition immunology.  Dr. Nieman has received $16.8 million in research grants and published more than 400 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the sports nutrition section of the journals Nutrients and Frontiers in Nutrition, and sits on 10 journal editorial boards including the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Dr. Nieman’s Google Scholar h-index is 115, and his publications have been cited more than 59,000 times, placing him in the top 2% of scholars in the world.  He is the author of nine books on health, exercise science, and nutrition. Dr. Nieman served as vice-president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), president of SEACSM, and two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology.  Dr. Nieman received  ACSM’s Citation Award in 2013. He was an acrobatic gymnast and coach for 10 years and has run 58 marathons (PR 2:37) and ultramarathons.

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

David C Nieman
David C Nieman

David Nieman is a professor in the Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, at Appalachian State University, and director of the Human Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, NC. Dr. Nieman is a pioneer in the research area of exercise and nutrition immunology.  Dr. Nieman has received $16.8 million in research grants and published more than 400 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the sports nutrition section of the journals Nutrients and Frontiers in Nutrition, and sits on 10 journal editorial boards including the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Dr. Nieman’s Google Scholar h-index is 115, and his publications have been cited more than 59,000 times, placing him in the top 2% of scholars in the world.  He is the author of nine books on health, exercise science, and nutrition. Dr. Nieman served as vice-president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), president of SEACSM, and two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology.  Dr. Nieman received  ACSM’s Citation Award in 2013. He was an acrobatic gymnast and coach for 10 years and has run 58 marathons (PR 2:37) and ultramarathons.