ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health
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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.
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ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Human Kinetics
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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 : 2.34 pounds
Dimensions : 10 x 0.94 x 7.13 inches
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Bettye D. –
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Christy S. Redenbach –
Good value if you need this text
The book is surprisingly well made for the price. Sturdy, well bound, great color and print quality. I had to have it for an annoying required course so I didn’t focus much on content but there seemed to be good standardized info. Nothing out of the box. It also didn’t address at all some great exercises for basic physical therapy.
RedXepher82 –
Great book
This book is great. It gives a lot of information on fitness and how to be healthier. It also comes with a nice calculation sheets and suggested work outs.
Bryce –
Repetitive, but useful health information
This book uses data from studies to paint an an overall picture of the ways health changes over life and how we can improve it with things like diet choices and exercise. I feel that this would be a useful book for a health class but maybe not as much otherwise. The information is definitely geared towards more health vulnerable populations such as the elderly, overweight, diabetics, etc. It provides useful info about how diet and exercise exactly affect our health, but it repeats the same info a lot throughout the book for each different age/health group. For people looking to learn new fitness regimens or dive deep into health and fitness I feel there are other more specialized books. However, for a health class this is a great strating point with a lot of great, data backend information.
davidcbusby –
A great read on physical fitness
I highly recommend this book. The information is based on the latest scientific research instead of some fad. The only exercise book many of us will ever need (until the next edition.)
Alina –
Great!
Amazing how it came so fast when I need it last minute for school!
Kip Thomas –
Helpful
Up to date information was helpful
Rohi –
Very happy with product
In good condition
Chris Fearon –
According to this book: We should do leg curls and leg extensions at every session; we don’t need ANY kind of deadlift or heavy posterior chain work (leg curls and extensions are apparently all we need); we don’t need any barbell bench press, overhead press or squat; we don’t need any loaded carries; we need ten exercises at every workout (no more, no less).It’s essentially a rehash of the ACSM’s other books, including Resources for Personal Trainers.The cardio guidelines are totally generic too. Look elsewhere.
Jenn –
The book to buy when you need real information about health and fitness and you’re tired if guessing at the accuracy of the articles and posts you found online.
samuel Inbaraja –
Scientific approach to health and fitness and nutrition.The level of specificity and detail is adequate. Avoids much clutter. Gives clarity.
Alice pari –
Un libro utilissimo e ben comprensibile per sportivi per anziani e per tutti coloro che vogliono cambiare stile di vita. Vale molto più di quello che costa
Amazon Customer –
Great book! Wonderful resource