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Get Fit - Stay Fit

5th Edition

By William Prentice

Publication Date: Sep 12, 2008

ISBN:0073376566 / 9780073376561

Language: English

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Imprint: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. Dimensions: 9.1 X 7.2 Inches (US)

Summary
Table of Contents

Main Description

This brief, user-friendly text is designed for students with little or no background in developing a personal fitness program. Topics covered in Get Fit, Stay Fit include principles of cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, limiting body fat, and nutrition. Key points have been emphasized to explain why certain aspects of physical fitness should be important to individuals, and how to become an informed consumer of physical fitness equipment and services.

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: Limiting Your Body Fat Through Diet and Exercise

8: Eating Right

9: Practicing Safe Fitness

10: Becoming A Wise Consumer

Epilogue: Now Do You See Why You Should Care About Getting Fit?

Appendix A: Dietary Reference Intakes: Recommended Levels for Individual Intake from the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine—National Academy of Sciences

Get Fit - Stay Fit

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: Limiting Your Body Fat Through Diet and Exercise

8: Eating Right

9: Practicing Safe Fitness

10: Becoming A Wise Consumer

Epilogue: Now Do You See Why You Should Care About Getting Fit?

Appendix A: Dietary Reference Intakes: Recommended Levels for Individual Intake from the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine—National Academy of Sciences

Appendix B: Food Composition Table

LABS

Lab Activity 1-1: Importance of Physical Fitness

Lab Activity 1-2: Daily Fitness Schedule

Lab Activity 2-1: Your Personal Stress Inventory

Lab Activity 2-2: Health Style: A Self-Test

Lab Activity 3-1: Medical History Questionnaire

Lab Activity 3-2: Planning for a Physical Activity Program

Lab Activity 4-1: Calculating Target Heart Rate

Lab Activity 4-2: The Rockport Fitness Walking Test

Lab Activity 4-3: Cooper’s 12-Minute Walking/Running Test

Lab Activity 5-1: Push-Ups

Lab Activity 5-2: Bent-Knee Sit-Ups

Lab Activity 5-3: Muscular Endurance Test

Lab Activity 6-1: Trunk Flexion

Lab Activity 6-2: Trunk Extension

Lab Activity 6-3: Shoulder Lift Test

Lab Activity 7-1: Nutritional Knowledge Survey

Lab Activity 7-2: Assessing Your Nutritional Habits

Lab Activity 7-3: 7-Day Diet Analysis

Lab Activity 8-1: Calculating Body Mass Index (BMI)

Lab Activity 8-2: Calculating Percent Body Fat Using Skinfold Measurements

Lab Activity 8-3: Determining Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

Lab Activity 8-4: Calculating Caloric Expenditure

Lab Activity 8-5: Calculating Caloric Intake

Lab Activity 8-6: Worksheet for Estimating Caloric Balance