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Features

• A Closer Look boxes give the reader insight into special topics such as how much sleep is enough, road rage, and the benefits of a Mediterranean diet.
• Nutritional Links to Health and Fitness boxes – including “Choosing your fast food more wisely,” “Do weight lifters need large amounts of protein in their diets?”, and “Can antioxidant vitamins reduce your risk of coronary heart disease?” – connect nutrition to fitness.
• Lab exercises allow students to apply textual information to practical problems, encouraging the immediate development of healthy lifestyle choices and a core fitness plan. This new edition includes 16 new labs, including ones previously in the Instructor’s Manual. New labs include stress and task management activities and developing optimal weight maintenance goals.
• Fitness and Wellness Consumer Issues boxes teach students to be smart and discerning health consumers, guiding them to make the best fitness and wellness decisions in a market full of fads, gimmicks, and gadgets.
• Fitness and Wellness for All boxes present current health research, covering issues such as how the risk of cancer varies across the U.S. and how the incidence of drug abuse varies across populations.
• Ask an Expert boxes contain in-depth interviews with specialists in a variety of fields. Topics include adaptation of muscle to resistance training programs, exercise and nutrition, exercise and body adaptations to environmental extremes, psychological issues related to exercise adherence, and the cause and treatment of obesity.
• Behavior Change Log Book with Wellness Journal encourages behavior change by providing students with hands-on material to track daily exercise and food intake and to create personal, long-term fitness and nutrition programs. An updated Nutritional Content of Common Foods table have also been added. Automatically packaged with the text.
• EvaluEat diet analysis software gives students the tools they need to track and analyze their daily exercise and nutrient intake. Automatically packaged with the alternate edition.
• End of chapter material includes Chapter Summaries, Study Questions, Suggested Readings, Web Links, and updated References.  

New To This Edition

• Expanded media package includes an expanded MyHealthLab. This course management system features an interactive e-book, an electronic version of the Behavior Change logbook and wellness journal, digital clips from the Discovery Channel Health and Wellness Lecture Launcher Videos, and new activities, self-assessments, and quizzes. The Companion Website has also been updated and revised to enhance student learning.
• New labs provide a total of 40 labs from which instructors can choose.
• Increased coverage of the wellness components throughout the text and the addition of a new co-author with an expert background in behavior change and lifetime wellness puts greater focus on steps students can take to improve and maintain their overall health.
• Updated coverage throughout the text including new references and the inclusion of current topics and fads such as low-carb diets, complementary and alternative medicine, stress-management strategies, pilates, diabetes and prediabetes, dietary supplements, and emotional health.
• Greater depth of coverage in the nutrition chapter, such as an updated discussion of Trans Fats, and the new FDA requirements for food labeling.
• Expanded discussion of how to modify unhealthy behavior, including an overview of the most widely used behavior change theories, and updated information on and how to prevent your risk of injury, in Chapter 10.
• New “Suggested Reading ” lists and “Web Links” at the end of each chapter provide sources for further explanation topics.
• Updated art and photos enhance the text, including brand new photos at the opening of chapters to grab students’ attention.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding Health-Related Fitness and Wellness

2. Fitness Evaluation: Self-Testing

3. General Principles of Exercise for Health and Fitness

4. Exercise Prescription Guidelines: Cardiorespiratory Fitness

5. Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance

6. Improving Flexibility

7. Nutrition, Health, and Fitness

8. Exercise, Diet, and Weight Control

9. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

10. Stress Management and Modifying Unhealthy Behavior

11. Life Time Fitness

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Fitness and Wellness  (Health, Kinesiology & Nutrition)

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• Total Fitness & Wellness, Brief Edition, Media Update, 3/E
  Powers, Dodd & Jackson
  ©2011  |  Benjamin Cummings  |  Paper Package; 408 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321667824  |  ISBN-13: 9780321667823
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  Thoroughly revised and updated to be relevant, approachable, and appealing, Total Fitness & Wellness gives students a solid foundation in fitness and lifetime wellness, while teaching them how to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The new Media Update Edition combines the latest research and statistics in exercise science and includes new media for both students and instructors. This edition builds on the already expanded coverage of behavior change and provides the most comprehensive supplements package in the market to create a package instructors and students alike will enjoy using. For a focused presentation on fitness, the Brief Edition consists of Chapters 1-10 and 16 from the big book so students receive the basics on fitness, nutrition, cardiovascular disease and stress management.

   

  The Media Update features an extensively revised Companion Website with over 80 new exercise videos, ABC News videos, RSS feeds, flashcards, electronic versions of labs and self-assessments, and a Behavior Change Log Book. The new MyFitnessLab^™ features the same updates as the website, as well as Pearson eText with live links, audio clips, and electronic versions of the Eat Right! and Live Right! booklets.

   

  Package Components:

  • Total Fitness & Wellness, Brief Edition, Media Update, Third Edition
  • Behavior Change Log Book and Wellness Journal

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