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Principles and Labs for Fitness & Wellness, 17th Edition
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Now in its 17th Edition, "Principles and Labs for Fitness & Wellness" continues to inspire students to actively pursue personal health and wellness goals with a renewed emphasis on inclusivity and accessibility. The newly introduced Your Fitness and Wellness Journey feature invites students to self-assess, reflect and set actionable strategies for personal growth, fostering a holistic and enduring wellness mindset. With updated, research-driven content, accessible labs and behavior modification tools, this edition ensures fitness and wellness are approachable and achievable for students from all backgrounds in today’s diverse and dynamic environment.
- The new Your Fitness and Wellness Journey feature personalizes health goals through progressive self-assessment tools based on the transtheoretical model of change. Students evaluate current wellness habits with Location Check, reflect on potential lifestyle impacts with Preview Ahead and select strategies for improvement with Lane Change. Under the Hood offers insights into the science of fitness and wellness and FIT Stop fosters critical thinking and engagement with wellness facts. A universal chapter structure creates a cohesive and motivational path for students’ fitness journeys.
- A reinvigorated design provides a modern and visually stimulating layout featuring many new figures, graphs, informational boxes and photos in each chapter.
- All exercise prescription principles conform with the most up to date 2021 Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
- A new section on Physical Activity and Exercise for People with Disabilities provides valuable insights into working effectively with this client group.
- The new updates ensure alignment with the 2019 American Heart Association guidelines for proper blood pressure measurement, provide updated data on the substantial health benefits of strength training in reducing premature mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer, incorporate new research on the effectiveness of popular ultra-short workouts and emphasize the importance of increased daily mobility in preventing cardiovascular mortality, enhancing the overall relevance and depth of the content.
- Practical Problems: Critical Thinking features ask students to apply wellness concepts to issues they will face in their personal life or on the job and then challenges them to develop realistic solutions.
- Values Focus: Leveraging a focus on personal values, students are asked to create exercise plans around their needs and priorities when choosing exercise types, amounts and frequencies.
- Academic Fitness: Instructors can select among the largest variety of labs available in a fitness text, each with classroom or homework activities to complete with the text or online using the MindTap learning platform.
1. Physical Fitness and Wellness.
2. Behavior Modification.
3. Physical Activities.
4. Diet.
5. Body Composition.
6. Body Weight.
7. Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
8. Muscular Fitness.
9. Musculoskeletal Flexibility.
10. Movement Skills and Performance.
11. Disease Prevention.
12. Stress.
13. Addictive Behavior.
14. Sexual Health.
15. Lifetime Fitness and Wellness.
2. Behavior Modification.
3. Physical Activities.
4. Diet.
5. Body Composition.
6. Body Weight.
7. Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
8. Muscular Fitness.
9. Musculoskeletal Flexibility.
10. Movement Skills and Performance.
11. Disease Prevention.
12. Stress.
13. Addictive Behavior.
14. Sexual Health.
15. Lifetime Fitness and Wellness.
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