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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Short Workouts by Deidre Johnson-Cane,Jonathan Cane,Joe Glickman Pdf
Provides routines for fifteen, thirty, forty-five, and sixty minute cardiovascular and weight training workouts, including information on seasonal and office workouts.
Methods of Group Exercise Instruction by Carol K. Armbruster,Mary M. Yoke Pdf
Formats, modalities, and trends in group exercise are constantly evolving. Methods of Group Exercise Instruction, Third Edition With Online Video, explores the most common group exercise modalities, enhancing readers’ marketability by giving them the skills to lead dynamic, safe, and effective classes. This text highlights the commonalities of a variety of group exercise formats through training principles, correction and progression techniques, and safety tips to enhance the skills of both group exercise leaders and program directors. Methods of Group Exercise Instruction, Third Edition, moves from theory to practice in a logical progression. Rather than simply providing routines, this book helps instructors develop the core skills needed for creating routines, use proper cueing, and adapt their teaching to new modalities. Teaching techniques convey appropriate training for each muscle group and methods for warm-up, cardiorespiratory training, muscular conditioning, neuromotor training, and flexibility. In addition, starter routines, modification strategies, and instructor assessment criteria are presented for seven class formats: kickboxing, step training, stationary indoor cycling, sport conditioning and boot camp, water exercise, yoga, and mat-based Pilates. The text also touches on alternative modalities, including dance-based classes, fusion, and mind–body training. Thoroughly revised and reorganized based on industry standards, the third edition of Methods of Group Exercise Instruction offers expanded content to help readers become better instructors. Updates to the third edition include the following: • Online video, totaling over 100 minutes, demonstrates key content in the text. • New chapters cover social aspects of group exercise, coaching-based instructional models, and neuromotor and functional training. • Callout boxes highlight important topics, research findings, technique and safety checks, and practice drills, which facilitate quick learning. • Short assignments at the close of each chapter encourage readers to look beyond the text to gain practical experience. • Evaluation forms and evaluation key points allow instructors to gauge their teaching success and adapt the key criteria of a successful class to each exercise modality. The three-part structure of this book is retained from the previous edition, but the content is reorganized to better reflect industry standards and guidelines. Part I provides a general overview of group exercise: the evolution and advantages of group exercise; the strategies for creating group cohesion in a class; the core concepts in class design; and the use of music, choreography, and cueing methods in designing and leading a class. Part II offers guidelines for leading the four major segments of a group exercise class: warm-up, cardiorespiratory training, muscular conditioning, and flexibility training, and includes a new chapter on neuromotor and functional training. These basic concepts pertain to all modalities covered in part III, which focuses on practical teaching skills. Basic moves, choreography, and training systems are covered for each type of class. Sample routines and class formats for each modality offer a confident starting point for novice instructors and fresh material for veterans. The final chapter discusses customized or hybrid classes such as lifestyle physical activity–based classes, equipment-based cardio classes, and mind and body classes. When used as a course text, Methods of Group Exercise Instruction, Third Edition, includes instructor ancillaries, which offer suggestions for effective use of the book and online video, lesson plan outlines, a sample week-by-week syllabus, lab activities, and test questions. The third edition also features a newly added image bank containing all the figures and photos from the text to use in presentations.
Student-centered Physical Education by Timothy K. Smith,Nicholas G. Cestaro Pdf
Student-Centered Physical Education presents over 100 fun physical activities that not only promote student fitness and skill development but also build the foundation for a physically active life. The authors' modular approach allows teachers to mix and match activities in order to achieve specific goals, creating multiple opportunities within each class period for students to succeed. Authors Timothy Smith and Nicholas Cestaro, who together have more than 50 years of teaching experience, have developed a student-centered approach to physical education to replace the outdated, subject-driven approach. By focusing on the needs of the preadolescent student rather than on sports or calisthenics, this proven program challenges exclusivity, boredom, and gender bias. Their strategies and activities make physical education relevant to your students and motivate them to participate in physical activity, both in the gym and after school. Part I, "A Student-Centered Modular Approach," helps you develop and organize your classes. You'll learn how to assemble modular lesson plans and how to increase their effectiveness using the teaching strategies presented. You'll also find a chapter on authentic assessment, which discusses the use of rubrics, portfolios, and portfolio cards. Next, Part II, "Teaching Modules," provides you with easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions for more than 100 fitness-related activities, including -warm-ups, -skill development activities, -team-oriented activities, and -individual and paired activities. Each activity is ready to be inserted into the modular lesson format presented in Part I. In addition, you'll find 10 detailed health-fitness modules-one for each month of the school year-that will help you present and reinforce key lifestyle concepts in addition to the "physical" components of physical education.
Exercise and Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum by Rita Santos-Rocha Pdf
This is the second edition of a well-received, practice oriented, multidisciplinary book filling the gap between evidence-based knowledge on the benefits of physical activity and exercise during pregnancy and postpartum and the implementation of exercise programs and related health promotion measures in pregnant women. Readers will find up-to-date evidence on the psychological, social, physiological, body composition, musculoskeletal, and biomechanical changes that occur during pregnancy and their implications for physical activity and exercise. Further, the authors equip the reader with the latest guidelines and detailed description of exercise testing, prescription, selection and adaptation for pregnant and postpartum women, including those with clinical conditions. This new edition has been thoroughly updated, and includes additional chapters focused on the pedagogical intervention in pre and postnatal exercise programs, exercise prescription and adaptation during postpartum and diet recommendations for the pregnant exerciser and athlete. Written by recognized experts in the field, the book aims to allay undue fears regarding the consequences of exercising during pregnancy. Moreover, it provides medical, sports, and fitness professionals both with the knowledge and the practical expertise needed to offer an optimal guidance on exercising to pregnant exercisers and athletes.
Closed Kinetic Chain Exercise by Todd S. Ellenbecker,George J. Davies Pdf
Closed kinetic chain exercise involving multiple joints is effective in rehabilitation, sport conditioning, and injury prevention. This book provides usable how-tos for applying a variety of techniques and variations to condition the upper and lower extremities. Forty-five closed kinetic chain exercises effective in enhancing muscular strength, power and endurance as well as functional performance, are incorporated into an individualized progressive training or rehabilitation program.--Cover.
The Benefits of Aerobics to Lose Belly by Mey Irtz Pdf
Aerobics and any quite physical activity could surely help control and reduce weight. it's most successful when combined with a healthy diet. Including physical activity and exercise together with your daily routine will surely assist you achieve better built, healthy lifestyle and increase in energy.Aerobics would help your body burn the calories consumed and stop them from becoming accumulated fats.
Aerobics: Maximize Your Body Potential and Make Yourself More Attractive (The Essential Guide to Lose Weight Get a Lean and Toned Body While Having Fun Using Water Exercises) by Damian Calder Pdf
Have you tried different types of exercise but eventually gave up all of them? Or have you always been thinking about starting an exercise but never implement it? Now please don’t waste time to choose and try any other ones again. The Power of Step Aerobics will help you achieve your maximum body potential, remove your belly fat and make yourself look more attractive. This book provides the practical steps for learning, chapters are categorized by easy followed topics, which make it unique for beginners. You will love to follow the magic simple routines, get the results you want, keep you motivated and consistent. Here is a preview of what you will learn: · What water aerobics is all about · How you can benefit from engaging in water aerobics · What you need to do to get started with water aerobics · Different water aerobic exercises that target different parts of your body · Tips to make your experience with water aerobics more enjoyable and productive · And so much more… Take action right away to get a toned and lean body while having fun today by downloading this book, ‘Water Aerobics. The Essential Guide To Lose Weight, Get A Lean And Toned Body While Having Fun Using Water Exercises for a limited.
Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine by Lyle J. Micheli Pdf
Entries cover issues related to sports medicine, including diagnostic and treatment techniques, conditioning and training, diet and nutrition, doping and performance enhancement, injury prevention, and career opportunities.
Food & Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet & Exercise by Michael Kent Pdf
This second edition of Food & Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet & Exercise provides more than 1,800 entries on all matters relating to diet and exercise. Subject areas covered include diet methods, food supplements, exercise, sports injuries, anatomy, energy-related terms, exercises for improving strength, flexibility, stamina, weight control, training methods and principles, calorie requirements of different activities, and other related topics. For this update all entries have been reviewed and updated where necessary, and 20,000 new and revised words have been added, alongside web links to relevant online resources and images. Focus areas include computer and satellite technology, DNA technology, food and drink labelling, and the psychological aspects of dieting and exercising, and new entries cover topics such as accelerometry, drink labelling, exercise tracking, mindfulness, national diet and nutrition survey, and spontaneous activity expenditure. A good diet and regular exercise are the key components of a healthy lifestyle. Food & Fitness gives the reader a wealth of information which will help them to evaluate claims made about different diets and types of exercise, and to select the combination most suited to their needs.
Aerobics for Fitness provides you with everything you need to know to make aerobics work right and produce real fitness results. Learn all the right information about aerobics and the best methods so that you can maximize the aerobic benefits you receive in fitness and weight loss. With Aerobics for Fitness, you'll learn everything you need to know! All the following will enable you to become an expert on the aerobic routine that will best benefit you and your fitness needs: A discussion about the benefits of aerobic exercise and why you need it Information on how aerobics can help you lose weight and stay fit An examination of the different types of aerobics and those that are best for you An explanation about wading-in-water aerobics, aerobic dance, aerobic breathing, aerobic kickboxing, and step aerobics A close look at participating in aerobics during pregnancy and aerobics for kids Insight on how to recognize the beauty of aerobic exercises Information on the various types of aerobic equipment
Fitness for Life Updated by Charles B. Corbin,Ruth Lindsey Pdf
The e-book for Fitness for Life, Updated Fifth Edition allows you to highlight, take notes, and easily use all the material in the book in seconds. The e-book is delivered through Adobe Digital Editions® and when purchased through the Human Kinetics site, access to the content is immediately granted when your order is received. Fitness for Life is the original and best-selling high school text for promoting lifelong physical activity and healthy lifestyles that result in lifelong fitness, wellness, and health. Fitness for Life has been updated to make it better than ever. The updated edition retains the strengths of the fifth edition and has been enhanced with a test bank, an online study guide, and an array of other new features to keep teachers and students on the cutting edge. Fitness for Life helps students to -meet national, state, and local physical education grade-level standards; -learn about and meet national health goals for the year 2010; -become informed consumers on matters related to lifelong physical activity and fitness; -learn self-management skills that lead to adopting healthy lifestyles; -take personal responsibility for program planning and setting individualized goals; -recognize and overcome the barriers to reaching their activity and fitness goals; -use technology to promote healthy living and to separate fact from fiction; and -assess personal progress using a variety of tools, including FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM. The book's pedagogically sound format includes lesson objectives that are consistent with state and national health and fitness goals. The chapter and unit structure is consistent with a school-year structure and works with your schedule no matter what schedule you're on! The following are new features in the Updated Fifth Edition: -New focus on MyPyramid and the 2005 dietary guidelines -Online study guide and test bank -Increased emphasis on diversity awareness -Wrap-around lesson plans to accompany lesson plan book and CD-ROM -And much more—request a desk copy to see! View chapter excerpt and ancillary samples at www.FitnessforLife.org! Every chapter of the fully updated student text includes the following elements: -Two lessons designed for the classroom portion of the class -Three activities designed for use in the activity portion of the class -A self-assessment that helps students to build a fitness profile to be used in program planning -A taking charge feature designed to reinforce self-management skills and concepts -A self-management skill feature that includes guidelines for learning self-management skills and reinforces taking charge -A chapter review New ancillaries beef up already comprehensive ancillaries -The teacher ancillary package includes the following: -Lesson plans in CD-ROM and book format—Daily lesson plans guide teachers in working through the material and integrating the other ancillaries. -Wrap-around lesson plans—A wrap-around set of lesson plans is available for those schools that require or prefer this format. -CD-ROM and print version of teacher resources and materials—Includes worksheets, quizzes, blackline masters, and student workbooks. These can be copied from the print version or kept safe and printed out year after year from the CD-ROM. -CD-ROM of activity and vocabulary cards—This includes 8.5- x 11-inch cards depicting activities with instructions and vocabulary cards for use in studying fitness terminology covered in the book. -CD-ROM of the presentation package—This CD-ROM includes a PowerPoint presentation for every lesson in the book, making class time easy for you and more engaging for your students. -In-service DVD—Learn the program philosophy, objectives, and teaching strategies presented by Chuck Corbin. This DVD is useful for presenting your program's objectives to parents and administrators. -Spanish e-book on CD-ROM and online Spanish vocabulary—You'll find the full text in a Spanish translation on the CD-ROM, and all vocabulary is translated to Spanish on the Web site. -FitnessforLife.org Web site—The student text uses icons throughout to direct students to the Web site for more information. Additional content updates will continue to be added to the Web site as new information on health and wellness emerges. The Web site also includes the two newest ancillaries: -Online study guide—Use as a supplement to regular coursework, as an independent study for students who are unable to attend class, or as a make-up assignment for a student who missed a class. The online study guide also allows students to create online electronic portfolios that can be used as evidence of meeting physical education outcomes and standards. Access is free to teachers and students with an adoption of 25 or more copies. -Test bank—Quickly and easily create exams from more than 500 multiple-choice, essay, and matching questions. You can easily customize the exams to meet your needs, and you can make them unique for each class period you teach. -Award-winning DVDs—Two DVDs each include five 20-minute segments that illustrate key concepts, activities, and assessments featured in the text, including the Telly Award–winning segments. -The Lifetime Fitness DVD includes Introduction to Physical Activity, Cardiovascular Fitness, Muscle Fitness, Flexibility, and Body Composition. -The Wellness DVD includes Introduction to Wellness, Nutrition, Stress Management, the Activity Pyramid, and Planning Healthy Lifestyles. -Additional supplementary instructional materials are also available for purchase: -Physical Education Soundtracks—Two CDs contain the cadence for PACER and other fitness tests, music intervals, and music for exercise routines. -Physical Activity Pyramid Posters—Explains the FIT formula for all types of physical activities. How Fitness for Life Benefits Students -Fitness for Life helps students meet national, state, and local physical education standards and helps students achieve national health goals outlined in Healthy People 2010. -Fitness for Life is based on the HELP philosophy, which specifies the goal of promoting health for everyone with an emphasis on lifetime activity designed to meet personal needs. -Fitness for Life helps students learn the value and benefits of lifelong physical activity. Just as important, they learn that physical activity can and should be fun—and thus they are more likely to become and remain active throughout their lives. -Students learn how to create an activity and fitness plan, set individual goals, assess their status and progress, manage their time and responsibilities, and overcome barriers to regular physical activity. They learn to use technology to benefit their fitness rather than detract from it. And they experience the various components of health-related fitness, activity, and wellness through participation in the many labs and activities that are a crucial part of the Fitness for Life program. -Fitness for Life enables students to have success, build confidence in their ability to lead an active lifestyle, and take control of their own health. And research has shown that the program is effective in promoting physically active behavior after students finish school. -Fitness for Life complements the total learning process, contributing learning experiences in science, math, and language arts, including extensive vocabulary enhancement. How Fitness for Life Benefits Teachers -Teachers can present this course knowing that it is consistent with national and state standards. -Fitness for Life helps students understand lifelong fitness concepts and learn the keys to adopting and maintaining healthy behavior throughout their lives. -The program is easily adaptable to any schedule and includes block plans of all types. -The organization of the text and the comprehensive ancillaries make teaching this course as simple as possible, with a minimum of preparation time—even for those with no experience in teaching this type of course. -Workbooks and materials completed by students in the online study guide can be used in creating student portfolios that provide evidence of students' accomplishment of national, state, and local outcomes and standards. Compatibility With FITNESSGRAM®/ACTIVITYGRAM® and Physical Best Author Chuck Corbin has been a member of the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Scientific Advisory Board since its inception. The FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM assessments embedded in the Fitness for Life self-assessment program—as well as the book's approach to teaching health-related fitness and physical activity—are consistent with the stated philosophy of the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Scientific Advisory Board. Fitness for Life is also fully compatible with Physical Best resources; in fact, the Physical Best program offers teacher training for Fitness for Life course instructors. All three programs are based on the HELP philosophy, which promotes health for everyone with a focus on lifetime activity of a personal nature. Dr. Corbin is recognized nationally and internationally as the leader in teaching health-related fitness and activity to middle and high school students. He wrote the first high school textbook on this subject, which has often been imitated but never equaled. Dr. Corbin has received numerous national awards in physical education and has authored, coauthored, or edited more than 70 books and videos. Fitness for Life (winner of the Texty Award of the Text and Academic Authors Association), Concepts of Physical Fitness (winner of the McGuffey Award), and Concepts of Fitness and Wellness are the most widely adopted high school and college texts in the area of fitness and wellness. Two of Dr. Corbin's video programs have earned Telly Awards for Excellence for educational videos. He is first author of the national physical activity standards for children, published by COPEC and NASPE. 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Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription by Vivian H. Heyward,Ann L. Gibson Pdf
Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Seventh Edition With Online Video, provides a comprehensive approach to physical fitness appraisal and exercise prescription. The text bridges the gap between research and practice and synthesizes concepts and theories from exercise physiology, kinesiology, measurement, psychology, and nutrition to provide a clearly defined approach to physical fitness testing and the design of individualized exercise programs. The accompanying online videos enhance the learning experience and teach the techniques necessary for conducting fitness testing and program design. More than 40 clips featuring common exercise assessments will help users learn essentials of fitness testing, such as calibration of blood pressure cuffs, functional movement assessment, and push-up and pull-up testing. Unlike introductory texts, which typically focus on field testing for evaluating physical fitness, this text includes both field and laboratory assessment techniques. Readers will find the latest information on maximal and submaximal graded exercise testing in healthy populations, muscular fitness testing protocols and norms for children and adults, and field tests and norms for evaluating cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and balance. The seventh edition of Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription reflects current guidelines and recommendations, including new physical activity recommendations from the U.S. government, American Heart Association, and American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), as well as the latest ACSM guidelines for medical exam and exercise testing requirements before beginning exercise programs. Additional updates to the seventh edition include the following: • New research substantiating the link between physical activity and disease risk • Expanded information on prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, and overweight and obesity, including updated statistics on the global prevalence of obesity • New dietary guidelines for Americans, including information on MyPlate • Inclusion of SCORE system to estimate 10-year risk of fatal cardiac event due to atherosclerosis • Expanded information on the use of technology to monitor physical activity • Updated information on the use of exergaming and social networking to promote physical activity and exercise • Additional OMNI pictorial scales for ratings of perceived exertion during exercise • Latest ACSM FITT-VP principle for designing aerobic exercise programs • Whole-body vibration as an adjunct to resistance training and flexibility training Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Seventh Edition, is organized around physical fitness components, providing information on assessment followed by guidelines for designing exercise programs to improve each fitness component. The text begins with an overview of physical activity, health, and chronic disease, followed by discussion of preliminary health screening and risk classification, including the principles of fitness assessment, exercise prescription, and exercise program design. The remainder of the text provides in-depth coverage of assessment and exercise prescription for each of five physical fitness components: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness (strength, endurance, and power), body composition, flexibility, and balance. In each chapter, key questions help readers focus on essential information. Key points, review questions, and key terms reinforce concepts and summarize chapter content. An instructor guide, test package, chapter quizzes, and presentation package plus image bank provide tools for lecture preparation, creative content delivery, and class assessment. New to the seventh edition are online video clips for both students and instructors to further aid comprehension of the text and provide an additional tool for classroom demonstration. By integrating the latest research, recommendations, and information into guidelines for application, Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Seventh Edition, bridges the gap between research and practice for fitness professionals. Its unique scope, depth of coverage, and clearly outlined approach make it a valuable resource for students and exercise science professionals who want to increase their knowledge, skill, and competence in assessing clients’ fitness and designing individualized exercise programs.