Overview

This best-selling text on health-related fitness is now fully updated with an increased emphasis on personal responsibility for programme planning, overcoming barriers and technology. This text is also supported by a comprehensive new set of support materials, including detailed lesson plans, ready-to-use assessments and teacher resources, videos, music, graphics packages and more. This physical education text makes it easy to teach relevant information that will have a lasting impact on students' long-term health. With Fitness for Life 5th Edition, you can motivate students to: learn lifelong fitness concepts, do self-directed fitness activities, create individualised fitness programmes.

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Author:   F.Alex Carre ,  Charles B. Corbin ,  Ruth Lindsey
Publisher:   Human Kinetics Publishers
Imprint:   Human Kinetics Publishers
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 28.00cm
Weight:   1.315kg
ISBN:  

9780736046626

ISBN 10:   0736046623
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 March 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780736066754
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Unit I Getting Started; Chapter 1. Fitness and Wellness for All; Chapter 2. Safe and Smart Physical Activity; Chapter 3. Benefits of Physical Activity; Unit II Becoming and Staying Physically Active; Chapter 4. How Much Is Enough? Chapter 5. Learning Self-Management Skills; Chapter 6. Lifestyle Physical Activity and Positive Attitudes; Chapter 7. Cardiovascular Fitness; Chapter 8. Active Lifestyles; Chapter 9. Sports and Skill Related Physical Fitness; Unit IV Physical Activity Pyramid - Level 3 Activities; Chapter 10. Flexibility; Chapter 11. Muscle Fitness - Basic Principles and Strength; Chapter 12. Muscle Fitness - Muscular Endurance and General Muscle Fitness Information; Unit V Healthy Choices; Chapter 13. Body Composition; Chapter 14. Choosing Nutritious Food; Chapter 15. Making Consumer Choices; Unit VI Wellness and Personal Program Planning; Chapter 16. A Wellness Perspective; Chapter 17. Stress Management; Chapter 18. Personal Program Planning

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Charles B. Corbin, PhD, is a professor in the department of exercise and wellness at Arizona State University, a curriculum consultant to multiple school districts and co-editor of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest. Corbin has dedicated his life to promoting fitness and physical activity for people of all ages, with a special emphasis on youth. Respected by teachers, scholars and researchers alike, he was named an Alliance Scholar by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Ruth Lindsey, PhD, is a professor emeritus at California State University at Long Beach and a recognised leader in physical activity and fitness with special expertise in biomechanics, kinesiology, questionable exercises, nutrition and physical activity for senior adults.

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