Key Benefits: Total Fitness and Wellness gives readers a solid foundation in fitness and wellness, while providing them with the tools they need to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The vibrant design makes the book more approachable through modern chapter-opening photos, graphs, and detailed exercise photos. The Seventh Edition provides a clear learning path, labs that can be completed and submitted online, and a thoroughly revised guide to creating a comprehensive fitness and wellness plan, ensuring readers have the print and online tools they need to succeed. To take advantage of the power of Mastering, every chapter of the text includes numbered Learning Outcomes and a new study plan that ties directly into MasteringHealth activities. Key Topics: Understanding Fitness and Wellness; General Principles of Exercise for Health and Fitness; Cardiorespiratory Endurance: Assessment and Prescription; Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance; Improving Flexibility; Body Composition; Creating Your Total Fitness and Wellness Plan; Nutrition, Health, and Fitness; Exercise, Diet, and Weight Control; Preventing Cardiovascular Disease; Stress Management; Exercise: The Environment and Special Populations; Preventing Exercise-Related and Unintentional Injuries; Cancer; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Addiction and Substance Abuse Market: Intended for those who would like to gain a basic knowledge of fitness and wellness.

Total Fitness and Wellness gives you a solid foundation in fitness & lifetime wellness, while teaching and coaching you how to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The new edition combines the latest research and statistics in exercise science while coaching you through the best way to put better fitness into action. Unique to Total Fitness and Wellness, a new chapter on planning Fitness & Wellness programs (Chapter 7) guides you on building your complete programs for enhanced fitness & wellness. Furthermore, the coaching features and revised sample programs throughout the text offer you easy-to-follow, strategic guides to reaching all your fitness & wellness goals. QR codes in the book link to actual exercise videos, so you can quickly and easily see proper form and technique videos prior to your own workouts. For a focused presentation on fitness, the Brief Edition consists of Chapters 1--11 from the big book so students receive the basics on fitness, nutrition, cardiovascular disease, and stress management. Note: If you are purchasing the standalone text or electronic version, MasteringHealth does not come automatically packaged with the text. To purchase MasteringHealth please visit www.masteringhealthandnutrition.com or you can purchase a package of the physical text + MasteringHealth by searching for 032198272X/ 9780321982728. MasteringHealth is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.

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Thoroughly revised and updated, Total Fitness & Wellness provides a solid foundation in fitness and lifetime wellness, while teaching you how to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The Media Update features an extensively revised Companion Website with over 80 new exercise videos, ABC News videos, RSS feeds, flashcards, electronic versions of labs and self-assessments, and electronic versions of the Behavior Change Worksheets. The new MyFitnessLab™ features the same updates as the website, as well as Pearson eText with live links, audio clips, and electronic versions of the Eat Right! and Live Right! booklets.

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