Fit to Be Well: Essential Concepts: .

By Alton L. Thygerson, Steven M. Thygerson, Steven Thygerson

Book Overview

Fit to Be Well: Essential Concepts offers simple, workable approaches for being healthy and fit that can easily be integrated into a student's lifestyle and schedule. It encourages students to improve their eating habits and incorporate healthier foods into their diet; increase their level of physical activity; keep their body composition and weight at a healthy level; increase their self-esteem and create a more positive self-image; and reduce stress. Each chapter contains easy-to-follow guidelines to help students modify their lifestyle behaviors and make responsible decisions. A student lab manual is included at the back of the book at no additional cost By adding self-assessments and related labs to each of the chapters, this text becomes an interactive guide to building and implementing a fitness program that will work with a student's individual needs and schedules. New to the Third Edition - Healthy People 2020 and MyPlate - Life expectancy - Exercising in the heat, cold, air pollution, and at high altitude - Cross-training and interval-training - How to overcome excuses for not exercising - The FITT formula for designing an effective exercise program - Walking techniques, how to gauge walking speeds, and pedometers Resources: Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint Presentations, and a Test Bank Student Companion Website: Interactive Flashcards, Practice Quizzes, Crossword Puzzles, an Interactive Glossary, and Web Links.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449661408
• ISBN13: 9781449661403
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for school classes & personal

This text is a wonderful book for people seeking numbers. By that I mean some of us understand things better when we can see the numbers. It contains all the usual information in a colorful inviting format, and it also contains all those numbers it would take hours and hours and hours of websearching to find: the endurance, strength, cardio-vascular, BMI, calories needed,etc. all done by age and gender that help a person do a self-evaluation of their health and then set reasonable goals for attaining a better level of health. Also, as a homeschool parent, I found it contained all the info necessary to design a wonderful program for our students. The price can be hard to swallow, but this is one that is truly worth it. This is the book for which we've all been waiting when it comes to health info. It works extremely well for those trying to work with the Florida State-mandated HOPE course (~Health Opportunities with Physical Education). Kudos to the author!