Gary Liguori, Sandra Carroll-Cobb

Questions and Answers: A Guide to Fitness and Wellness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1900
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781260092417
• ISBN-10: 1260092410
• Artikelnr.: 60002124

Autorenporträt

Gary Liguori received a B.S. from the University of Central Missouri, an M.S. from East Stroudsburg University, and a Ph.D. from North Dakota State University. He is the dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Rhode Island, where he is also co-director of the Academic Health Collaborative and a professor of kinesiology. Dr. Liguori is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and serves on the Executive Councils of the ACSM Committee of Certification and Registry Board and the ACSM Publications Committee. He was the senior editor of the ACSM Resource Manual for the Health Fitness Specialist (first edition), associate editor for ACSMs Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (tenth edition), and senior editor of ACSM's Health Related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual (fifth edition).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction to Health, Wellness, and Fitness 2 Positive Choices/Positive
Changes3 Fundamentals of Physical Fitness 4 Cardiorespiratory Fitness 5
Muscle Fitness6 Flexibility and Low-Back Fitness 7 Body Composition Basics8
Nutrition Basics: Energy and Nutrients9 Eating for Wellness and Weight
Management 10 Stress and Its Sources 11 Chronic Diseases 12 Infectious
Diseases13 Substance Use, Dependence, and Addiction