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• Title:Fitness & health / Brian J. Sharkey, Steven E. Gaskill.
  
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• Variant Title:Fitness and health
  
• Author/Creator:Sharkey, Brian J.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Gaskill, Steven E., 1952-
  
• Published/Created:Champaign, Ill. ; Windsor, Ont. : Human Kinetics, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QT255 .S537 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Physical fitness.
  Health.
  
• Edition:6th ed.
  
• Description:ix, 429 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-417) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780736056144 (soft cover)
  0736056149 (soft cover)
  
• Contents:1. Health benefits of activity and fitness : reduce your risk for many diseases through activity and fitness
  2. Activity and mental health : manage stress, anxiety, and depression with activity
  3. Activity and personal health : assess your health and need for a preexercise medical exam
  4. Understanding aerobic fitness : understand aerobic exercise and factors that influence aerobic fitness
  5. Aerobic training effect : discover the changes stimulated in the body by systematic exercise
  6. Improving aerobic fitness : develop a personalized program to fit your goals
  7. Implementing an aerobic fitness program : exercise effectively with training tips, sample programs, and solutions to common exercise problems
  8. Understanding muscular fitness : understand muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility
  9. Benefits of muscular fitness : learn how training changes muscle and learn ways to minimize muscle soreness
  10. Improving muscular fitness : create a personal muscular fitness program
  11. Nutrition and health : understand the basics of good nutrition
  12. Energy balance : calculate your caloric intake and expenditure
  13. Activity, diet, and weight control : discover why activity is essential for weight control
  14. Weight-control programs : develop a program using activity, food choices, and behavior therapy
  15. Performance in sport and work : improve competitive performance safely and effectively
  16. Environment and performance : minimize environmental problems such as heat, cold, high altitude, and air pollution
  17. Age, activity, and vitality : delay aging and improve longevity with activity and healthy habits
  18. Psychology of activity : sustain activity through motivation, adherence, and goal setting
  19. Activity and the quality of life : learn how activity contributes to your quality of life.