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Book SynopsisACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health, Second Edition, offers the most current exercise and nutrition guidelines along with assessments, exercises, activities, and programs for varying ages, special conditions, and fitness goals. Authoritative and comprehensive, it makes adding, enhancing, or customizing a fitness and health routine safe and effective.
Trade Review"ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness and Health is a must-read book for anyone who desires to live a long and healthy life. Written by experts from the prestigious American College of Sports Medicine, this book offers practical and proven advice on staying active and eating right."
Robert Sallis, MD, FACSM -- Co-Director of Sports Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fontana CA
“ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness and Health helps you find your path to lifelong health. Backed by the latest research, this book will help you make informed, everyday decisions about eating right and being active. Learn from leading experts how individual choices today can add up to a lifetime of good health.”
Walt Thompson, PhD-- President, American College of Sports Medicine (2017-2018), Regents’ Professor and Associate Dean, College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University
“The American College of Sports Medicine is the world’s authority on physical activity, fitness, and health. In this volume, leading experts provide up-to-date guidance on adoption of an active, fit, and healthy lifestyle.”
Russell R. Pate, PhD-- Professor of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
Table of ContentsPart I Fit, Active, and Healthy
Chapter 1 Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices: Physical Activity and Nutrition
Barbara A. Bushman
Chapter 2 Embracing Physical Activity: A Complete Exercise Program
Barbara A. Bushman
Chapter 3 Balancing Nutrition: Recommended Dietary Guidelines
Stella Lucia Volpe and Joseph R. Stanzione
Chapter 4 Promoting Healthy Habits: Getting Started and Staying Motivated
Barbara A. Bushman
Part II Exercise and Activity for Building a Better You
Chapter 5 Improving Your Aerobic Fitness
Barbara A. Bushman
Chapter 6 Enhancing Your Muscular Fitness
Avery D. Faigenbaum
Chapter 7 Increasing Your Flexibility
Jan Schroeder and Michelle Kulovitz Alencar
Chapter 8 Sharpening Your Functional Fitness
Nicholas H. Evans
Part III Fitness and Health for Every Age
Chapter 9 Children and Adolescents: Birth to Age 17
Don W. Morgan
Chapter 10 Adults: Ages 18 to 64
Barbara A. Bushman
Chapter 11 Older Adults: Ages 65 and Older
Robert S. Mazzeo
Part IV Fitness and Health for Every Body
Chapter 12 Cardiovascular Health
Shannon Lennon-Edwards and William B. Farquhar
Chapter 13 Diabetes
Sheri R. Colberg
Chapter 14 Cancer
Kathryn H. Schmitz
Chapter 15 Alzheimer’s Disease
Brad A. Roy and Linda Fredenberg
Chapter 16 Osteoporosis and Bone Health
Kara A. Witzke and Kerri M. Winters-Stone
Chapter 17 Arthritis and Joint Health
A. Lynn Millar
Chapter 18 Weight Management
Laura J. Kruskall
Chapter 19 Pregnancy and Postpartum
Lanay M. Mudd and Jean M. Kerver
Chapter 20 Depression
Heather Chambliss and Tracy L. Greer
