Fitness And Health Hardcover 7

Brian J. Sharkey

The completely revised seventh edition of "Fitness & Health" offers a comprehensive understanding of the exercise/health relationship and provides a framework for attaining health and fitness goals. This handbook for students and fitness professionals explores the physiology and benefits of fitness whilst also providing information and tools for improving health and wellness. It also includes special elements to highlight interesting content on health and fitness, including important health behaviours, testing procedures and proven fitness programmes. The book explains how the body responds to physical activity; why physical activity is beneficial to health; and how physical activity can help people increase aerobic and muscular fitness, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, enhance performance in work and sport, and improve general vitality. Lecturers benefit from the inclusion of new ancillaries containing an instructor guide complete with lab activities, a test package and a presentation package with image bank. New edition of the leading student guide on physiology and the benefits of fitness.

English

Human Kinetics Publishers

1 May 2013

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Brian J. Sharkey, has nearly 40 years of experience as a leading fitness researcher, lecturer and author. Sharkey served as director of the University of Montana's Human Performance Laboratory for many years and remains associated with the university and lab as professor emeritus. Steven E. Gaskill, is a professor in the Department of Health and Human performance at the University of Montana. His research interests include the relationship of physical activity to cognitive functioning in children and long-duration work and exercise fitness as related to fitness, fatigue, immune function and cognitive performance.

Steven E. Gaskill

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