Connect Plus with LearnSmart Fitness and Wellness for Concepts of Physical Fitness

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Edition: 16th
Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2011-03-02
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

Connect PLUS Fitness and Wellness is a powerful, web-based learning management system that makes creating and grading assignments easy for you and learning convenient for students. It includes gradable self-assessments and videos students can respond to online, which personalizes important health concepts and drives behavior change. In addition, completed self-assessments are automatically scored, saving the professor the time of collecting and reviewing health inventories throughout the semester.

To purchase access to Connect PLUS Fitness and Wellness go on www.shopmcgrawhill.com, and use ISBN 9780077350895.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Lifestyles for Health, Wellness, and Fitness

1: Health, Wellness, Fitness, and Healthy Lifestyles: An Introduction

2: Self-Management and Self-Planning Skills for Health Behavior Change

Section II: An Introduction to Physical Activity

3: Preparing for Physical Activity

4: The Health Benefits of Physical Activity

5: How Much Physical Activity Is Enough?

Section III: The Physical Activity Pyramid

6: Lifestyle Physical Activity: Being Active in Diverse Environments

7: Cardiovascular Fitness

8: Active Aerobics, Sports, and Recreational Activities

9: Flexibility and Stretching Exercises

10: Muscle Fitness and Resistance Exercises

Section IV: Physical Activity: Special Considerations

11: Body Mechanics: Posture, Questionable Exercises, and Care of the Back and Neck

12: Performance Benefits of Physical ActivitySection V: Nutrition and Body Composition

13: Body Composition

14: Nutrition

15: Managing Diet and Activity for Healthy Body Fatness

Section VI: Stress Management

16: Stress and Health

17: Stress Management, Relaxation, and Time Management

Section VII: Making Informed Choices

18: Recognizing Quackery: Becoming an Informed Consumer

19: Toward Optimal Health and Wellness: Planning for Healthy Lifestyle Change

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