Get Fit - Stay Fit - Softcover

Prentice, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007304685X ISBN 13: 9780073046853

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Synopsis

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

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From the Publisher:

Includes new information on creatine and herbal supplementation helping students to make informed choices outside of the classroom.
Reflects the latest thinking on fluid replacement emphasizing the importance of fluid replacement during exercise, so students learn how to correctly avoid potential hazards of incorrect exercise safety.
Discusses the new exercise phenomenons including elliptical trainer and kick boxing so students make informed choices while assembling a fitness program, becoming a fitness consumer, and continuing a fitness regimen.
Lists 5-7 reviewed web sites relevant to each chapter enabling students to take their studies beyond the classroom with these author-approved sites.
Updates all exercise safety information and illustrations to include the latest information, providing a current example of proper fitness techniques to promote a safe and effective fitness program
Features an updated and significantly expanded list of references reflecting the current research and serving as a significant resource for further study on key issues and topics.
Highlights, summarizes, and provides quick reference to important information with special boxes'Fit Lists, Health Links, and Safe Tips.
Includes more than 20 Lab Activities, assisting the user in evaluating a number of personal measures of fitness as well as providing guidelines for increased health.
Defines key terms in margin boxes helping build a working vocabulary of concepts, terms, and principles necessary for understanding, beginning, and maintaining any fitness program.
Uses clear and professional photographs of individuals from a range of fitness levels to provide an excellent visual guide to the proper execution of exercises, stretches and activities.

About the Author:

Dr. William Prentice is Professor of Exercise and Sport Science and Coordinator of the Sports Medicine Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also serves as the Director of the NATA approved Graduate Athletic Training Education Program. He received his BS and MS from the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. in Sports Medicine and Applied Physiology from the University of Virginia. He also has a BS in Physical Therapy from the University of North Carolina. He is a Certified Member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association and has received the Sayers A. "Bud" Miller Distinguished Athletic Trainer Educator Award and the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award from the NATA. In 2004 he was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame. Dr. Prentice served as the Athletic Trainer for the Women's Soccer Program, which has won eighteen NCAA National Championships. He teaches graduate courses in sports medicine and athletic training. Dr. Prentice is the author of nine best-selling texts in athletic training, sports medicine, and health-related fitness.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 007304685X
• ISBN 13: 9780073046853
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 320