Full Description
Here is the ultimate resource for maximizing your exercise and nutrition efforts. In this new edition of ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health, you have an authoritative reference that allows you to apply research-based guidance to your unique health and fitness needs. With a focus across the life span, this resource shows you how to pursue optimal health and fitness now and throughout the years to come. The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest and most respected sport science and medicine organization in the world, has created this book to bridge the gap between science and the practice of making personal lifestyle choices that promote health. This new edition contains age-specific advice within the framework of the latest research, thus helping you to avoid the lure of fads, unfounded myths, and misinformation.
You will learn these strategies:
• Incorporate the latest guidelines for physical activity and nutrition into your daily routine to improve your fitness and overall health.
• Optimize your weight and increase strength, flexibility, aerobic fitness, and functional fitness.
• Improve health and manage conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, pregnancy, and Alzheimer's disease through exercise and nutrition.
• Monitor, evaluate, and tailor your exercise program for optimal results.
Featuring step-by-step instructions and full-color photos for the most effective exercises, sample workouts, practical advice, age-specific physical activity and dietary guidelines, and strategies for incorporating exercise and healthy nutrition choices into even the busiest of lifestyles, ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health is a resource that belongs in every fitness enthusiast's library.
Contents
Part 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
