Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program

by Werner W.K. Hoeger, Sharon A. Hoeger

LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS, 11th Edition, provides students with current information, tools, and guidelines to implement and adhere to a lifetime physical fitness and wellness program. Throughout the text, Werner W. K. Hoeger and Sharon A. Hoeger encourage students to take a critical look at their current behaviors in order to help them identify and abandon negative habits and adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. The authors' emphasis throughout the book is on teaching students how to take control of their personal lifestyles and make changes to promote overall health and wellness. In order to achieve this goal, the authors personalize the information to show students how content relates to their individual lives and provide easy steps to help students begin the process of behavior change. The unique design of this text integrates activities throughout each chapter, which allows students to learn core concepts and immediately apply their knowledge through self-review and application activities. In addition, LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS is part of an integrated textbook program that extends beyond the text to online resources within CengageNOW and WebTutor that further students' understanding through personalized learning plans, provide online labs, and allow students to track their behavior change progress.

Genres: Health, School, Nonfiction

539 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1986

Reviews

[Suzette Banick · Rating 1 out of 5]

My dislike for this book has nothing to do with the writing. The writing is boring and dull, just as any informative book of this nature is. It is filled with good ideas and information. However it is not in my interests and if I didn't have to read it as a school assignment I would have never finished the first chapter. If a person is interested in reading about the positive affects of working out or any other form of physical fitness or emotional or spiritual health, this book is for you.

[Melinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very complete. I understand a lot more about fitness and how to become more fit than I did before. It is clear, with enough technical language to merit college credit, but not written in academicese. I'm glad I studied it.

[Martha Goff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very comprehensive

Almost too much detail especially about ways to measure various aspects of one's physical fitness. The first few chapters are at a depth suitable for physical education or kinesiology majors. For the rest of us, I'd prefer that each chapter had a bulleted list of key points for application that could be referred to later without paging through all the details. However the last chapter and in particular the appendices provide some great summaries. I will keep this book and now that I've finished the course, I'll have time to focus on setting up my own fitness program.

[Stefano · Rating 5 out of 5]

a must read for everyone trying to gain or mantain a good health. comprehensive and detailed yet easy to read. covers almost everything, from aerobics to strenght training to meditation or drug abuse.

[Karol]

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