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Here is the ultimate resource for maximizing your exercise and nutrition efforts. In this new edition of ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health, you have an authoritative reference that allows you to apply research-based guidance to your unique health and fitness needs. With a focus across the life span, this resource shows you how to pursue optimal health and fitness now and throughout the years to come. The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest and most respected sport science and medicine organization in the world, has created this book to bridge the gap between science and the practice of making personal lifestyle choices that promote health. This new edition contains age-specific advice within the framework of the latest research, thus helping you to avoid the lure of fads, unfounded myths, and misinformation.
You will learn these strategies:
• Incorporate the latest guidelines for physical activity and nutrition into your daily routine to improve your fitness and overall health.
• Optimize your weight and increase strength, flexibility, aerobic fitness, and functional fitness.
• Improve health and manage conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, pregnancy, and Alzheimer’s disease through exercise and nutrition.
• Monitor, evaluate, and tailor your exercise program for optimal results.
Featuring step-by-step instructions and full-color photos for the most effective exercises, sample workouts, practical advice, age-specific physical activity and dietary guidelines, and strategies for incorporating exercise and healthy nutrition choices into even the busiest of lifestyles, ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health is a resource that belongs in every fitness enthusiast’s library.
From the Publisher
ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Human Kinetics
The Premier Publisher for Sports & Fitness.
Authoritative advice
Science-based programs
Remarkable results
Full-color images
Updated activity and nutrition guidelines for every age
Here is the ultimate resource for maximizing your exercise and nutrition efforts. In this new edition of ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health, you have an authoritative reference that allows you to apply research-based guidance to your unique health and fitness needs. With a focus across the life span, this resource shows you how to pursue optimal health and fitness now and throughout the years to come. The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest and most respected sport science and medicine organization in the world, has created this book to bridge the gap between science and the practice of making personal lifestyle choices that promote health. This new edition contains age-specific advice within the framework of the latest research, thus helping you to avoid the lure of fads, unfounded myths, and misinformation.
Incorporate the latest guidelines for physical activity and nutrition into your daily routine to improve your fitness and overall health.
Optimize your weight and increase strength, flexibility, aerobic fitness, and functional fitness.
Improve health and manage conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, pregnancy, and Alzheimer’s disease through exercise and nutrition.
Monitor, evaluate, and tailor your exercise program for optimal results.
Features step-by-step instructions and full-color photos for the most effective exercises
Dumbbell Squat
Wood Chop
Single-Leg Standing Balance
Push-Up Hold with Dumbbell Row
Publisher : Human Kinetics; Second edition (February 9, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 149253367X
ISBN-13 : 978-1492533672
Reading age : 18 years and up
Item Weight : 2.35 pounds
Dimensions : 6.9 x 1 x 9.9 inches