Get Fit, Stay Well Brief Edition
Janet Hopson; Rebecca J. Donatelle; Tanya Littrell
Language: English
Published by Benjamin Cummings, 2009
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- Title
- Get Fit, Stay Well Brief Edition
- Author
- Janet Hopson; Rebecca J. Donatelle; Tanya Littrell
- Publisher
- Benjamin Cummings
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0321594924
- ISBN 13
- 9780321594921
- Item weight
- 1.87 pounds
Motivate Students to Get Fit and Stay Well For Life
Get Fit, Stay Well! gives you the targeted, personalized guidance you need to get started, keep motivated, and approach the next level in their own fitness & wellness.
The Third Edition provides dynamic media, content that activates learning, and personalized approaches to fitness and wellness that you can apply to life. Maintaining the highly praised hallmarks of previous editionsintegrated case studies, three-pronged labs, a fresh graphical approach, and extensive strength training and flexibility photos and videosthis edition further engages you by including vibrant GetFitGraphic infographics to inspire thinking and discussion.¿ QR codes in the book allows you to easily access exercise videos and fitness programs right on their smartphones. Instructors can track and assess your progress with the easy-to-use MasteringHealth.
Included with Get Fit, Stay Well!, MasteringHealth is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping you quickly master concepts. You'll¿ benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience to help keep you on track and prepared for lecture.TheBrief Edition contains chapters 1-10 of the "full edition" of Get Fit, Stay Well!, with a focus on fitness topics, nutrition, weight, stress, and preventing cardiovascular disease.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This program presents a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Get Fit, Stay Well! Third Edition will:
- Personalize Learning with MasteringHealth: MasteringHealth coaches you through the toughest fitness and wellness topics. Engaging tools help you visualize, practice, and understand crucial content, from the basics of fitness to the fundamentals of behavior change.
- Engage Students with Dynamic Tools: Online resources and a mobile website for personal fitness and wellness programs guide you through every chapter and encourage healthy changes.
- Activate Learning with Real-world Fitness & Wellness Topics: A modern presentation of strength training as well as two new wellness programs brings fitness and wellness to life.
- Encourage Behavior Change: Labs, case studies, and new tips for making healthy changes helps you learn what they need to do to become fit and well for life.
- Keep Students Motivated: New GetFitGraphics and reflection questions in the labs keeps you on track.
NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering search for ISBN-10: 0321944445 /ISBN-13:9780321944443 . That package includes ISBN-10: 032194917X/ISBN-13:9780321949172¿ and ISBN-10: 0321957393 /ISBN-13: 9780321957399.
Mastering is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
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About the Author
Janet L. Hopson, M.S.
Janet L. Hopson has written or co-written nine books, including six textbooks on general biology for college and high school students. She currently teaches science writing at San Francisco State University, and has also taught writing at two campuses of the University of California. She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees from Southern Illinois University and the University of Missouri. She has won awards for magazine writing, and her articles have appeared in Smithsonian, Psychology Today, Science Digest, Science News, Outside, and elsewhere.
Rebecca J. Donatelle, Ph. D.
Dr. Rebecca (Becky) J. Donatelle is an Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavior in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. She teaches courses in Health Behaviors, Infectious Diseases, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, and Violence and Public Health, and has taught thousands of students in health-related fields over the years. As a researcher and behavioral scientist with an emphasis on intervention science, much of her work has focused on women’s health and the health of elderly populations. Her research has been published in numerous journals, and she has been a guest speaker and presenter at professional conferences throughout the country. Dr. Donatelle is also the author of the highly successful introductory health textbooks Access to Health and Health: The Basics, published by Benjamin Cummings.
Tanya R. Littrell, Ph.D.
Dr. Tanya R. Littrell is a full-time faculty member in Fitness Technology and Physical Education at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Littrell worked as a fitness director for many years before attending graduate school at Oregon State University, where she earned both a master's degree in Human Performance/Exercise Physiology and a doctoral degree in Exercise Science/Exercise Physiology. Dr. Littrell has been teaching lifetime fitness classes for undergraduates since 1998.
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