Health and Fitness for Life

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Health and Fitness for Life is an introductory college textbook that shows students how to improve their habits related to physical activity, eating, or stress management. With a focus on real-world activities and practices for increasing overall wellness, this book includes grounded examples of practical health-based situations and healthy choices from diverse perspectives that will give students strategies for identifying and improving areas of their health.
This book covers the basics of exercise and healthy living, as well as more advanced topics, including:
• Cardiorespiratory fitness
• Muscular strength and endurance
• Flexibility training and mobility
• Body composition
• Nutrition planning and guidance
• Stress management
• Chronic and infectious disease
• Substance use and abuse
• Environmental health
This book’s data-driven study of health and fitness is goal-oriented, instructive, and encouraging for students of varying backgrounds and states of wellness. The approach in these pages creates relevant links between guidance from official health organizations and everyday life. There’s something for everyone here, whether you’re looking to improve habits related to physical activity, eating, or stress management, or to better understand your place in the world as a healthy individual.
Written by community college health faculty, Health and Fitness for Life blends down-to-earth instructional text with numerous examples of relevant situations and outcomes for students from all demographics.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B8BH1SCJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chemeketa Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2022
Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 19.7 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 1189 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1955499125
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,949,593 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #910 in Health Reference #1,541 in Health, Mind & Body Reference #4,781 in Healthy Living
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