Fitness and health / Brian J. Sharkey.
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TextPublication details: Champaign, Ill. ; Leeds : Human Kinetics, c1997.Edition: 4th edDescription: xiii, 416p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: - 9780873228787 (pbk.) :
- 0873228782
- Physiology of fitness [Other title]
- 613.7 SHA
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Previous ed.: published as Physiology of fitness. 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-406) and index.
PART 1: Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health:- 1. Health benefits of activity and fitness--Activity and fitness reduce the risk of many diseases--2. Activity and mental health:- How activity helps us deal with stress while reducing anxiety and depression--3. Activity and personal health:- Assess your need for a pre-exercise medical exam with this health-risk analysis--PART II: Aerobic Fitness:- 4. Understanding aerobic fitness--Identify aerobic exercise and the factors that influence aerobic fitness--5. Benefits of aerobic fitness:- Understand how systematic exercise stimulates changes in the body--6. Improving your Aerobic Fitness: Develop a personal aerobic fitness program based on your age, fitness level and goals--7. Aerobic Fitness Programs:- Make your exercise program safe and enjoyable with training tips, sample fitness programs, and solutions to common exercise problems--PART III: Muscular Fitness:- 8. Understanding Muscular Fitness:-Identify the components of muscular strength, endurance, and flexability--9. Benefits of Muscular Fitness:- Understand how exercise changes muscle and minimize muscle soreness with 11 stretches--10. Improving your Muscular Fitness:- Create a personal muscular fitness program from 37 exercises--PART IV: Activity and Weight Control:- 11. Nutrition and Health:- Understand the basics of good nutrition--12. Energy and Activity:- Learn to calculate your caloric intake and expenditure--13. Activity, Diet, and Weight Control:- Why activity is better than dieting to control weight--14. Weight-Control Programs:- Start a personalized weight-control program focusing on activity, food choices, and behavior--PART V: Performance in Work and Sport:- 15. Performance at Work: Explore the relationship between fitness and work capacity--16. Performance in Sport:- Prepare for athletic competition safely and effectively--17. The Environment and Performance:- Fitness minimizes environmental problems like temperature extremes, humidity, high altitude, and air pollution--PART VI: Vitality and Longevity:- 18. Age, Activity, and Vitality:- Activity and healthy habits counteract the effects of aging and improve longevity--19. The Psychology of Activity:- Incorporate psychological skills into a successful fitness program--20. Activity and the Quality of Life:- Consider how physical activity contributes to your quality of life.
Fitness and Health explains in plain English how the body responds to physical activity, why physical activity is so important to health, and how best to become physically active.