Description
Book SynopsisShows 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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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- 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
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