Fitness and Well-Being for Life, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, provides a personal and interactive tool for college students to learn how to lead and sustain lives that are healthier, happier, and more productive. Evidence-based physical and mental health guidance is presented in an accessible writing style and organized in a logical progression, resulting in a text easily relatable to and understood by college students.
With an emphasis on behavior modification to develop long-term health habits, challenges specific to college students are addressed, including stress management, substance abuse and addiction, sexual health, weight management, cardiovascular exercise, functional movements, strength training, and nutrition.
Students will be equipped with the understanding and tools to make lifestyle changes that matter. Related learning aids, delivered through HKPropel, include 48 video clips demonstrating proper movement technique. A fitness testing video, new to this edition, helps students visually see and understand how to conduct personal fitness tests. Also new to this edition are four sample workout plans, enhanced with video demonstrating proper form for the exercises; these sample plans serve as examples for students to learn how to structure their own workouts. Practical learning activities, assignable by instructors in HKPropel, provide real-life context and personal application of the material, focusing on completing individual assessments, goal setting, and identifying the pros and cons of modifying their behavior. New guided notes encourage students to understand the content and tools provided in each chapter, ensuring they can embrace behavior changes for life. Comprehension of the content is gauged through automatically graded chapter quizzes assigned and tracked by instructors within HKPropel.
Within the book, pedagogical aids and practical tips promote understanding and application to daily life, including Immunity Booster tips with practical advice for staying healthy, Behavior Check sidebars to help students integrate concepts, and Now and Later sidebars that encourage students to consider how actions today will affect their future. A Functional Fitness Training insert provides movements to strengthen key muscles and explains their relevance to common activities, while infographics, tables, and figures throughout illustrate and reinforce key concepts in an easy-to-understand manner.
Fitness and Well-Being for Life, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, helps students learn how to make healthy choices and enact positive behavior changes to lead healthier and happier lives both now and in the future.
Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.
By:
Carol K. Armbruster,
Ellen M. Evans,
Catherine M. Laughlin
Imprint: Human Kinetics
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Weight: 1.202kg
ISBN: 9781718213463
ISBN 10: 1718213468
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 13 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1. Staying Healthy and Well Throughout Life Staying Healthy Through the Life Span New Perspectives on Well-Being Classic Components of Wellness The Functional Movement and Well-Being Connection Summary Chapter 2. Functional Movement Choices Understanding Physical Activity Recommendations Integrating Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sedentarism Fitting Movement Into Everyday Life Safety First: Getting Started With a Personal Movement Program Summary Chapter 3. Personalizing Healthy Behavior Change Are You Ready to Change? Behavioral Theories Grounded in Social Psychology Personalizing the Behavior Change Process Goal Setting Revisited Summary Chapter 4. Cardiorespiratory Fitness Your Energy Needs: Supply and Demand Cardiorespiratory Fitness Benefits Your Daily Life Assessing Your Cardiorespiratory Fitness Designing Your Plan to Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness Safety First: Getting Started With Cardiorespiratory Fitness Summary Chapter 5. Muscular Fitness Your Body Was Designed to Move Key Definitions Muscular Fitness Benefits Your Daily Life Assessing Your Muscular Fitness Designing Your Plan to Improve Muscular Fitness Analyzing Your Fitness Choices Safety First: Getting Started With Resistance Training Summary Chapter 6. Flexibility, Neuromotor Fitness, and Posture All About Flexibility Mind the Stretch Reflex! Neuromuscular and Functional Fitness Preventing Low Back Pain Summary Functional Fitness Training Lower Leg (Calves) Front of Upper Leg (Quads) Back of Upper Leg and Rear Hip (Hams and Glutes) Trunk and Abdomen (Abs) Lower Back Outer Thigh and Upper Hip (Hip Abductors) Inner Thigh (Hip Adductors) Chest and Front of Shoulder Upper Back and Shoulders Middle Back (Lats) Front of Upper Arm Back of Upper Arm Chapter 7. Body Composition Body Composition Basics Assessing Body Composition Weight Status, Body Composition, and Your Risk of Chronic Disease A Healthy Body Composition Benefits You—Today and in the Future! Designing Your Plan to Improve Body Composition Summary Chapter 8. Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Fueling Eating Well: Balanced and Clean The Many Benefits of a Healthy Diet Dietary Guidelines for Americans Food Safety Basics Summary Chapter 9. Weight Management Weight Management: Our Greatest Modern Health Challenge Energy Balance Math Weight-Management Strategies Daily Movement Is Essential for Weight Management Psychological Concerns Regarding Weight Management When Professional Help Is Needed Summary Chapter 10. Stress Management The Contemporary Stress Experience The Stress Response Common Stressors and Hassles of College Life Key Stress-Management Strategies Social, Stressed, and Sleepless Summary Chapter 11. Remaining Free From Addiction Types of Addictions What Is Addiction? Psychoactive Drugs Alcohol Tobacco Summary Chapter 12. Sexuality and Health Sexuality as a Dimension of Health Reproductive System Contraception and Birth Control Methods Sexually Transmitted Infections Reducing the Risks Sexual Assault COVID and Sexual Health Summary Chapter 13. Reducing the Risks for Metabolic Syndrome Are You at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome? Evaluating Your Risk for Diabetes Mellitus Cardiovascular Disease: Our Number One Killer Prevention of CVD Starts Early in Life Summary Chapter 14. Reducing the Risks for Cancer The Nature of Cancer Who Gets Cancer? Detection, Staging, and Treatment of Cancer Causes of Cancer Most Commonly Diagnosed Cancers Summary Chapter 15. Fitness and Well-Being: Today and Beyond Living Well Over the Life Span Differences Between Physiological and Chronological Age Behavioral Systems Approach to Healthy Living Approaches to Medicine Finding Resources to Enhance Your Fitness and Well-Being Specific Wellness Concepts and SMART Goals Revisited Healthy People 2030 and Beyond Fitness and Well-Being: A Way of Life
Carol K. Armbruster, PhD, is the first teaching professor emeritus in the department of kinesiology in the School of Public Health at Indiana University (IU) at Bloomington. She previously served as a program director of fitness and wellness for the IU Division of Recreational Sports, where she managed a program that offered more than 100 group exercise sessions per week. During her more than 35 years of teaching college students and training fitness leaders, she has served on the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) board of trustees and the American Council on Exercise (ACE) credentialing committees, and she is a fellow of ACSM. She is also an ACSM-certified exercise physiologist, holds the level 2 Exercise Is Medicine credential, and has enjoyed her work as a “pracademic” translating research to practice. Ellen M. Evans, PhD, is a department chair and professor at Indiana University. Previously, she was the associate dean for research and graduate education at University of Georgia (UGA) and director of the Center for Physical Activity and Health in the UGA College of Education. Prior to joining the faculty at UGA, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in geriatrics and gerontology and applied physiology at Washington University School of Medicine and was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Evans has been named a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK). Catherine M. Laughlin, HSD, MPH, is a clinical professor and assistant department chair of the department of applied health science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University (IU) at Bloomington. Her research interests include sexual health education, cancer prevention and education, program planning, and implementation and evaluation in community-based organizations. She is regularly interviewed by media outlets as a human sexuality and sexual health education expert.
