Fitness & Sport

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Here is the ultimate resource for maximizing your exercise and nutrition efforts. In this new edition of ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health, you have an authoritative reference that allows you to apply research-based guidance to your unique health and fitness needs. With a focus across the life span, this resource shows you how to pursue optimal health and fitness now and throughout the years to come. The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest and most respected sport science and medicine organization in the world, has created this book to bridge the gap between science and the practice of making personal lifestyle choices that promote health. This new edition contains age-specific advice within the framework of the latest research, thus helping you to avoid the lure of fads, unfounded myths, and misinformation.

You will learn these strategies:

• Incorporate the latest guidelines for physical activity and nutrition into your daily routine to improve your fitness and overall health.

• Optimize your weight and increase strength, flexibility, aerobic fitness, and functional fitness.

• Improve health and manage conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, pregnancy, and Alzheimer’s disease through exercise and nutrition.

• Monitor, evaluate, and tailor your exercise program for optimal results.

Featuring step-by-step instructions and full-color photos for the most effective exercises, sample workouts, practical advice, age-specific physical activity and dietary guidelines, and strategies for incorporating exercise and healthy nutrition choices into even the busiest of lifestyles, ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health is a resource that belongs in every fitness enthusiast’s library.

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ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health by the American College of Sports Medicine.

Human Kinetics

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Updated activity and nutrition guidelines for every age

Here is the ultimate resource for maximizing your exercise and nutrition efforts. In this new edition of ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health, you have an authoritative reference that allows you to apply research-based guidance to your unique health and fitness needs. With a focus across the life span, this resource shows you how to pursue optimal health and fitness now and throughout the years to come. The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest and most respected sport science and medicine organization in the world, has created this book to bridge the gap between science and the practice of making personal lifestyle choices that promote health. This new edition contains age-specific advice within the framework of the latest research, thus helping you to avoid the lure of fads, unfounded myths, and misinformation.

Incorporate the latest guidelines for physical activity and nutrition into your daily routine to improve your fitness and overall health. Optimize your weight and increase strength, flexibility, aerobic fitness, and functional fitness. Improve health and manage conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, pregnancy, and Alzheimer’s disease through exercise and nutrition. Monitor, evaluate, and tailor your exercise program for optimal results.

Features step-by-step instructions and full-color photos for the most effective exercises

Dumbbell Squat

Wood Chop

Single-Leg Standing Balance

Push-Up Hold with Dumbbell Row

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Human Kinetics
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 9, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ Second
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 149253367X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492533672
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.34 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 1 x 9.9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #220,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #244 in Weight Training (Books)
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