Lively reading, accurate and current information, and a complete program of personal fitness: these ingredients provide a book both instructors and students appreciate.

Designed as a textbook for fitness conditioning, aerobic dance and aerobic exercise, the goal of this book is to teach students to reach their optimum fitness levels. Highlights of the new edition include activities for older adults; detachable lab activities for classroom use; reader-friendly nutrition charts and a teacher CD with a testbank.

Table of Contents

• Optimal Fitness: Seeing the Whole Picture
• Assessment of Current Fitness: Understanding the Problem
• Training Programs: Getting Started
• Flexibility Fitness: Stretch Out and Shape Up
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Catch Your Beat
• Muscular Fitness: Strength and Endurance
• Concerns for Special Populations: Exercise for Everyone
• The Role of Nutrition: Food for Thought
• Weight Control: The Balancing Act
• A Plan for Stress Reduction: Completing the Picture