Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Most chapters include "Summary," "Key Words," and "Way of Life Library."
• 1 Physical Fitness and Wellness
• Health: To Live Better Rather Than Longer
• Health and Wellness
• Exercise--The Positive Do! Is Exercise for You? Why Physical Fitness? What Is Physical Fitness? Components of Physical Fitness
• Fundamental Reasons for Physical Fitness
• 2 Getting Started and Staying With It
• Strategies for a Lifetime of Physical Activity
• 3 Assessing Your Fitness
• Physical Fitness Test Battery
• Interpreting Your Results
• Evaluating Body Composition
• Evaluating Flexibility
• Evaluating Motor Skill
• Evaluating Muscular Strength
• Evaluating Muscular Endurance
• Evaluating Cardiorespiratory Endurance
• Using Your Results to Develop Your Own Fitness Profile
• 4 The Basic Principles of Exercise
• Principle 1 The Individuality Principle
• Principle 2 The Overload Principle
• Principle 3 The Specificity Principle
• Principle 4 The Reversibility Principle
• Elements of a Workout
• 5 Developing Cardiorespiratory Endurance
• Benefits of Cardiorespiratory Exercise
• Training Specifics
• Varying Exercise Mode, Intensity, Duration, and Frequency
• Walking
• Run--Walk: A Basic Program
• 6 Cardiorespiratory Endurance Activities
• Bicycling
• Swimming
• Aerobics/Aerobic Dance
• Water Aerobics
• Step Aerobics
• Rope Skipping
• In-Line Skating
• Cardiorespiratory Endurance Exercise Equipment
• 7 Developing Muscular Strength and Endurance
• Benefits of Muscular Strength and Endurance
• Resistance Training Misconception
• Training Specifics
• Other Resistance Training Guidelines
• Clothing, Accessories, and Equipment
• Muscle Adaptations to Resistance Training
• Exercises for Building Strength and Endurance
• 8 Stretching for Flexibility
• Benefits of Stretching
• Training Specifics
• Stretches to Avoid
• Clothing and Equipment
• Flexibility Exercises
• 9 Advanced Fitness and Training
• Interval Training
• Training for Speed and Explosiveness
• Fitness Events
• 10 Nutrition and Exercise
• Nutrition Basics
• Guidelines for Good Nutrition
• Food, Energy, and Exercise
• Energy Expenditure During Exercise
• Guidelines for Healthy Body Composition
• 11 Exercise and Heart Disease
• Atherosclerosis
• Coronary Risk Factors
• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Physical Activity and Coronary Heart Disease
• 12 Related Health and Fitness Issues
• Managing Stress
• Avoiding Injuries
• Women and Exercise
• Environmental Conditions
• Lower-Back Pain
• Drugs
• 13 A Lifetime of Sports Participation
• A Look at Sports and Physical Fitness
• Getting the Most Out of Sports
• Rating the Fitness Potential of Lifetime Sports