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Physical Fitness and Wellness
This comprehensive text aims to provide students with the information, strategies & motivation they need to help themselves improve the way they look, feel & perform.
Nutrition, Physical Fitness, and Health
Abstract: A collection of 23 papers concerning interrelationships of nutrition, physical status, and health are presented under 4 major categories by a range of experts for nutritionists, food scientists, and other health professionals. The number of papers are roughly balanced between the topics of: metabolic aspects of performance capability (considering food, energy, fluids, and nutrient intakes and body metabolic function); interactions between nutritional needs and various sports (young athletes, Polish physical education students, professional weightlifters); nutritional needs with respect to occupational activities in developing and developed countries; and nutrition, exercise, and health in situaions of weight reducing programs, sedentary work conditions, and cardiovascular disorders. (wz).
Physical Fitness/sports Medicine
Consists of citations selected from those contained in the National Library of Medicine's Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System.
Physical Fitness and Wellness
The 15 chapters of this physical fitness text cover topics such as: assessing present levels of fitness; behavioral change and motivational techniques, exercise principles; cardiorespiratory fitness; muscular strength and endurance; flexibility; nutrition; weight control; stress management; alcohol,
Physical Fitness and Exercise
"This compilation discusses how low levels of physical activity and excess body weight are considered key health risks in modern societies. This may be attributed to changes in the social and built environment, along with technical advances that reduced the requirement for physical activity in daily living. The authors investigate population aging, the physiology of aging, and the prescription of physical activity for the elderly. In addition, the effects of oxidative stress on skeletal muscle during high-intense resistance training are studied, particularly focusing on reactive oxygen species"--
Guide to Physical Fitness and Exercise
Evidence is mounting each day that exercise is crucial not only for fitness but for overall health and even in battles against specific diseases such as Parkinson's, arthritis and heart disease. Exercise is basically free except for time and it is that which many people are determined not to part with. This book offers a guide to exercise and fitness originally published by the Presidents' Council on Fitness. Here it is excerpted, reorganised and indexed for access and combined with related relevant information.
Physical Fitness
Now in its fifth edition, this book continues to take a positive, lighthearted, and realistic approach to promoting exercise as a way for living a life of health and fitness. Emphasis is placed on presenting the basic information on physical fitness, allowing the reader to choose a fitness program that is appropriate for his/her way of life. The book includes coverage of a variety of physical activity programs, ranging from beginning to advanced. The programs presented focus on health-related fitness components, including muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiovascular fitness. New topics include: expanded coverage of cardiorespitory fitness, resistance training coverage, and more. Teachers of health and physical fitness or those interested in acquiring and maintaining a healthful lifestyle.
Exercise
"This book presents an overall vision of different aspects of benefits of exercise, such as emotional and psychological benefits, role of exercise in insulin regulation, benefits in conditions such as fibromyalgia, oncologic disease, rheumatic inflammatory diseases, polycystic ovary syndrome, oral health, dementia, mental health and autism spectrum. Potentialities of aquatic exercise for health are also addressed. Developed within a base of scientific accuracy and precision, this book aims to accomplish a general synthesis of the topics included, so that it can be a scientific dissemination book for students and professionals in the field of fitness, who seek to update their scientific knowledge about the benefits of exercise in different areas of health, as well as the type of exercise that should be performed to prevent different pathologies, but who are not readers of scientific journals. Therefore, this book is a must read for fitness professionals, sport scientists, sports students, and for anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge about the benefits of exercise in different pathologies, and in health in general"--
