Fitness and Wellness
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1285733150
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Create your own personal fitness and wellness success stories with Hoeger and Hoeger's FITNESS AND WELLNESS. This text helps you take control of your personal fitness and wellness by providing current, practical information and tips that you can incorporate to start living a healthier life. This succinct nine-chapter text offers balanced coverage on health-related physical fitness components with valuable information on wellness. The authors emphasize motivation and behavior modification to help you make a constant and deliberate effort to stay fit and realize your highest potential for good health. Use the interactive study tools online to extend your learning beyond the text. FITNESS AND WELLNESS offers you the most current coverage and practical guidelines to take charge of your health.
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shorter periods of time and is just as effective as stretching for longer durations.22 Individuals who are susceptible to flexibility injuries should limit each stretch to 20 seconds. Pilates exercises are recommended for these individuals, as they increase joint stability (see the discussion on the Pilates exercise system on pages 81–82 in this chapter). Frequency of Exercise Flexibility exercises should be conducted a minimum of 2 or 3 days per week, but ideally 5 to 7 days per week. After 6 to
of jogging, especially for injured people, those with chronic back problems, and overweight individuals, is deep-water jogging—jogging in place while treading water. Deep-water jogging is almost as strenuous as jogging on land. In deepwater jogging, the jogging motions used on land are accentuated by pumping the arms and legs hard through a full range of motion. The participant usually wears a flotation vest to help maintain the body in an upright position. Many elite athletes train frequently in
activity. The intensity of the activity can be controlled easily by the height of the bench. Aerobic benches or plates can be stacked together safely to adjust the height of the steps. Beginners are encouraged to use the lowest stepping height and then advance gradually to a higher bench. This will decrease the risk for injury. Even though one foot is always in KEY TERMS Aerobics A series of exercise routines that include a combination of stepping, walking, jogging, skipping, kicking, and arm
industrialized nations where society encourages low-calorie diets and thinness. Although these disorders are frequently seen in young women, the majority seeking treatment are between the ages of 139 25 and 50. Surveys, nonetheless, indicate that as many as 40 percent of college-age women are struggling with an eating disorder. Eating disorders are not limited to women. Every 1 in 10 cases exists in men. But because the role of men in society and their body image are viewed differently, these