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ACSM Fitness Book-3rd Edition

Most people, even those diagnosed with a chronic illness (with a physician’s clearance) can exercise safely if some precautions are taken before, during, and after exercise.

Active Start for Healthy Kids

Inactivity and poor eating habits are two of the most important concerns surrounding childhood obesity. With these activities, you can address one of those concerns by incorporating developmentally appropriate physical activity into a child’s day for ages two through six.

Physical Activity and Nutrition for Health

In integrating fitness and nutrition concepts as part of a healthy lifestyle, the lessons in this book will help students improve in all components of health-related fitness now while establishing healthy behaviors for the rest of their lives. The lessons are adaptable to involve children with disabilities and include challenges for higher-level and higher-skilled students.

Reversing the Obesogenic Environment

Many factors influence whether people use physical activity resources. In this chapter we discuss the more common factors examined in the research literature, including those we think are the strongest predictors of physical activity resource use: accessibility, proximity, safety, and the presence and quality of features and amenities, aesthetics, and incivilities.

Weight Training 4th Edition eBook

Although the bent-over row is considered to be one of the best exercises for the upper back, it is also frequently performed with bad technique or modified more than usual.

Woman's Guide to Muscle and Strength, A

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Hatha Yoga Asanas

Partridge (Kapinjalasana) asana.

Therapeutic Stretching eBook

The lumbar region may become stiff for reasons similar to those causing stiffness in other regions of the spine, namely immobility or after injury.

Senior Fitness Test Manual-2nd Edition

Briefly, strength is increased by gradually increasing the resistance placed on a muscle (i.e., by applying what is called the overload principle). Overloading a muscle means making it do more than it is accustomed to doing. This can be accomplished using free weights (similar to the dumbbells used to test arm strength in the SFT), elastic exercise bands, Velcro strap-on weights, exercise machines that are designed for specific muscle groups, or a person’s own body weight and gravity. A

Recovery for Performance in Sport

The water-immersion recovery technique consists of covering part of the body, or the whole body, in water.

New edition Assessment NSCA-CPT Healthy work

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Use It or Lose It--The Importance of Strength Training for Seniors

Fitness expert, Wayne Westcott shares his knowledge about why strength training is important, especially for the aging population.

Bending the Aging Curve: A Periodized Prescription for Improved Aging

Dr. Signorile provides a unique look at how to address the multi-faceted needs of each individual using functional diagnoses to design targeted exercise programs.

Everything Athletes Need to Know About Protein

Dr. Bill Campbell discusses an evidence-based approach to examine common issues in relation to protein intake for athletes.

Is the environment causing obesity? Taking action to reverse an epidemic

Dr. Rebecca Lee looks at the obesogenic environment -- an environment that leads people to become obese -- and shares practical ideas to help you start making important changes in your own community.