Total Fitness Wellness

Key Benefits: Total Fitness and Wellness gives readers a solid foundation in fitness and wellness, while providing them with the tools they need to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The vibrant design makes the book more approachable through modern chapter-opening photos, graphs, and detailed exercise photos. The Seventh Edition provides a clear learning path, labs that can be completed and submitted online, and a thoroughly revised guide to creating a comprehensive fitness and wellness plan, ensuring readers have the print and online tools they need to succeed. To take advantage of the power of Mastering, every chapter of the text includes numbered Learning Outcomes and a new study plan that ties directly into MasteringHealth activities. Key Topics: Understanding Fitness and Wellness; General Principles of Exercise for Health and Fitness; Cardiorespiratory Endurance: Assessment and Prescription; Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance; Improving Flexibility; Body Composition; Creating Your Total Fitness and Wellness Plan; Nutrition, Health, and Fitness; Exercise, Diet, and Weight Control; Preventing Cardiovascular Disease; Stress Management; Exercise: The Environment and Special Populations; Preventing Exercise-Related and Unintentional Injuries; Cancer; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Addiction and Substance Abuse Market: Intended for those who would like to gain a basic knowledge of fitness and wellness.

Total Fitness and Wellness, Canadian Edition, by Powers/Dodd/Thompson/Condon, provides an authoritative and research-based overview of physical fitness and wellness with an increased emphasis on wellness and healthy behaviour change.

Total Fitness and Wellness gives you a solid foundation in fitness & lifetime wellness, while teaching and coaching you how to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The new edition combines the latest research and statistics in exercise science while coaching you through the best way to put better fitness into action. Unique to Total Fitness and Wellness, a new chapter on planning Fitness & Wellness programs (Chapter 7) guides you on building your complete programs for enhanced fitness & wellness. Furthermore, the coaching features and revised sample programs throughout the text offer you easy-to-follow, strategic guides to reaching all your fitness & wellness goals. QR codes in the book link to actual exercise videos, so you can quickly and easily see proper form and technique videos prior to your own workouts. For a focused presentation on fitness, the Brief Edition consists of Chapters 1--11 from the big book so students receive the basics on fitness, nutrition, cardiovascular disease, and stress management. Note: If you are purchasing the standalone text or electronic version, MasteringHealth does not come automatically packaged with the text. To purchase MasteringHealth please visit www.masteringhealthandnutrition.com or you can purchase a package of the physical text + MasteringHealth by searching for 032198272X/ 9780321982728. MasteringHealth is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.

Do you ever feel like a hamster, spinning on a wheel in an endless loop and getting nowhere when it comes to your health and fitness? Are you working out regularly and cutting calories but seeing no real improvements? Does it feel like you will never lose those last 10 or 20 pounds? Or do you feel as if you simply don’t have the time required to lose the fat and get into shape? Imagine if you could have the blueprint for the most efficient form of exercise to keep your body healthy and fit and an eating plan to satisfy hunger, taste, and health. Well, now you can. The best part? It will only require 15 minutes of exercise, twice a week, paired with a controlled-carb diet, and on the average, you will lose 10 pounds of fat within five weeks. It’s hard to believe, but it works—and 15 Minutes to Fitness:Dr. Ben's SMaRT plan for total Fitness will not only show you how to do it but also explain why it works. If this sounds like just another “new exercise secret,” please be assured that it is most certainly not. The foundation of this program is based on years of study, observation, and practice, and it has delivered real, measurable results in the overwhelming majority of those who have tried it. Dr. Vincent “Ben” Bocchicchio has spent the last 40 years in the fitness and health field, and as he approaches 70, people are still shocked to hear that he only spends 14 minutes twice a week on working out. But it’s true. With only 7 percent body fat, he is often asked what the secret is and if there's a “magic bullet.” The answer would be that the magic bullet is knowledge. And now with this book you will understand why genetically our bodies require simple and limited exercise exposure and how you can follow this optimal pattern yourself. The fact is that as humans we are hard-wired to exercise our bodies in very specific ways to reap the highest level of health benefits. I will provide the simple scientific argument for why my combination of high intensity exercise and controlled carbohydrate eating is the most effective means for burning fat, so that you can better understand exactly why this works. Exercise and diet are the two most powerful tools available for attaining high levels of health and function, and 15 Minutes to Fitness will show you just how little it actually takes to achieve a maximum response.

Chap. 1: Introduction to Health and Wellness. Chap. 2: Principles of Physical Fitness. Chap. 3: Nutrition Basics. Chap. 4: Weight Management. Chap. 5: Mental Health. Chap. 6: Managing Stress. Chap. 7: Intimate Relationships and Sexuality. Chap. 8: Reproductive Choices. Chap. 9: Pregnancy and Childbirth. Chap. 10: Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Chap. 11: Chronic Diseases. Chap. 12: First Aid and Injury Prevention. Chap. 13: Consumer Health and Alternative Medicine. Chap. 14: Environmental Health. Chap. 15: Substance Use and Abuse. Chap. 16: Healthy Aging. Chap. 17: Wellness Throughout Life.

"Developed specifically for the Canadian audience and written for first-year undergraduate students taking a general education fitness and wellness course, Fitness and Wellness in Canada: A Way of Life uses an engaging learning environment to provide students with the tools they need to become fit and well for life. In addition to providing students with an overview of the health-related components of fitness, Fitness and Wellness in Canada: A Way of Life teaches students how to embrace healthy eating and enjoy being physically active. Students learn how to establish fitness and wellness goals for now and throughout their lives. They learn how to manage stress, reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome and cancer, remain free from addiction, and develop a healthy sexuality"--