Get Fit - Stay Fit

by Prentice, William E.

• ISBN13: 9780073046853
• ISBN10: 007304685X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

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

Table of Contents

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: Food Composition Table

LABS

1-1 Importance of Physical Activity

1-2 Daily Fitness Schedule

2-1 Your Personal Stress Inventory

2-2 Health Style: A Self-Test

3-1 Medical History Questionnaire

3-2 Planning for a Physical Activity Program

4-1 Calculating Target Heart Rate

4-2 The Rockport Fitness Walking Test

4-3 Cooper's 12 -minute Walking/Running Test

5-1 Push-ups

5-2 Bent-Knee Sit-ups

5-3 Muscular Endurance Test

6-1 Trunk Flexion

6-2 Trunk Extension

6-3 Shoulder Lift Test

7-1 Nutritional Knowledge Survey

7-2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits

7-3 7-Day Diet Analysis

7-4 Calculating Caloric Intake

8-1 Calculating Body Mass Index (BMI)

8-2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits

8-3 Determining Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

8-4 Calculating Caloric Expenditure

8-5 Calculating Caloric Intake

8-6 Worksheet for Estimating Caloric Balance