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Complete Guide to Fitness & Health

ISBN: 9780736093378 | 0736093370

Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Pub. Date: 5/17/2011

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Summary

You know the importance of good health, but how do you achieve it? And how do you maintain it through the years as your body and lifestyle change, introducing obstacles to physical activity and optimal nutrition? In ACSM's CompleteGuide to Fitness & Health, you will find the answers and much, much more.The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest and most-respected sport science and medicine organization in the world, has created the ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Healthto strip away common fads, myths, and misconceptions and provid... MOREe you with the latest research, sound advice, and age-specific recommendations that you can trust.You will learn these strategies:Optimize your weight, improve heart health, and increase aerobic fitness, strength, flexibility, and balance.Improve your health by managing diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis and joint pain, pregnancy, and osteoporosis through exercise and proper nutrition.Determine your body composition and current cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness levels.Monitor, evaluate, and adjust your exercise program over time for optimal results.Introduce exercise, increase physical activity, and improve your diet for more energy and better health (no matter what your age!).Featuring step-by-step instructions and full-color photos for the most effective exercises, sample workouts, practical advice, age-specific physical activity guidelines, and strategies for incorporating exercise into even the busiest of lifestyles, ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Healthis a resource that belongs in every family's library.

From the renowned American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health offers the most current activity and nutrition guidelines along with exercises, activities, and programs for every age and fitness goal. This guidebook makes adding, enhancing, or customizing a fitness and health routine safe and effectivefor life.

Authored by the American College of Sports Medicine, an international body of physicians, scientists, athletic trainers and allied professionals. Includes activities and multi-level sample programs for every age and fitness level, ranging from children and adolescents, through older adults. Contains strategies for planning and tracking progress. Provides tools for determining body composition, cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, and flexibility. Offers step-by-step instruction with full-color photos for increasing muscular strength and flexibility/balance, along with guidance for choosing the right cardio training option based on one's time and interest.

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