Fitness Fundamentals: A Resource Guide for Active Living

Fitness Fundamentals, A Resource Guide for Active Living familiarizes students with the tools to help plan and develop an effective exercise program by providing key resources. Taking a practical approach, the handbook balances understanding and assessing fitness components with strategies for implementing and applying the basic concepts and principles of lifetime physical fitness. Fitness Fundamentals presents the necessary skills and useful information to guide students toward achieving their health and personal goals.

FEATURES

• Wellness labs
• Personal reflection activities
• Guidelines for fitness assessments
• Goal setting checklist
• Behavior change contract
• Nutrition analysis and daily food log
• Measuring and determining target heart rate
• Bodyweight exercises
• Circuit and interval training workouts
• Dynamic warm-up exercises
• Flexibility exercises
• Fitness charts
• Walking journal
• Critical thinking and discussion questions