Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Fitness & health
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Brian J. Sharkey, Steven E. Gaskill
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Seventh edition
- Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2013]
- Physical Details
-
- x, 445 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780736099370, 0736099379
- OCLC
- ocn810329274
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction to the active life -- Pt I Physical activity, fitness, and health 1. Activity and fitness: health benefits -- 2. Mental and cognitive health: a sound mind in a sound body -- 3. Personal health: it's your responsibility -- Pt II Turning your life around 4. Psychology of activity: learning to play -- 5. Behavior change: gaining control -- 6. Meaningful activity: lifetime vitality -- Pt III Understanding fitness 7. Physiology of fitness: muscles, oxygen, and energy -- 8. Aerobic fitness: stamina and efficiency -- 9. Muscular fitness: strength and endurance -- Pt IV Improving fitness 10. Aerobic fitness training: steps for success -- 11. Muscular fitness training: lifetime mobility -- Pt V Activity and weight control 12. Energy and nutrition: fueling the active life -- 13. Weight control: more than calories
Subjects
- Physical fitness.
- Health.
- Physical Fitness.
Medical Subject Heading
- Exercise -- physiology.
Medical Subject Heading
- Health.
Medical Subject Heading