Main description:

Thoroughly revised and updated to be relevant, approachable, and appealing, Total Fitness & Wellness gives you a solid foundation in fitness and lifetime wellness, while teaching them how to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The new Media Update Edition combines the latest research and statistics in exercise science and includes new media. This edition builds on the already expanded coverage of behavior change and provides the most comprehensive supplements package in the market to create a package instructors and students alike will enjoy using. For a focused presentation on fitness, the Brief Edition consists of Chapters 1-10 and 16 from the big book so you receive the basics on fitness, nutrition, cardiovascular disease and stress management. TheMedia Update features an extensively revised Companion Website with over 80 new exercise videos, ABC News videos, RSS feeds, flashcards, electronic versions of labs and self-assessments, and electronic versions of the Behavior Change Worksheets. The new MyFitnessLab(t) features the same updates as the website, as well as Pearson eText with live links, audio clips, and electronic versions of the Eat Right! and Live Right!
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Contents:

1. Understanding Fitness and Wellness 2. General Principles of Exercise for Health and Fitness 3. Cardiorespiratory Endurance: Assessment and Prescription 4. Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance 5. Improving Flexibility 6. Body Composition 7. Nutrition, Health, and Fitness 8. Exercise, Diet, and Weight Control 9. Preventing Cardiovascular Disease 10. Stress Management 11. Exercise and the Environment 12. Preventing Exercise-Related and Unintentional Injuries 13. Cancer 14. Sexually Transmitted Infections 15. Addiction and Substance Abuse 16. Life Time Fitness and Wellness The Powers/Dodd, Total Fitness & Wellness, Brief Third Edition Media Update (0-321-66782-4) includes eleven total chapters consisting of Chapters 1-10 and 16 of this Fifth Edition Media Update.