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LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS guides students through the development of a personalized program for fitness and wellness. Each chapter allows readers to chart and update their progress in the various components of physical fitness and the dimensions of wellness. The emphasis is on teaching individuals how to take control of their personal health and lifestyle habits so they can make a constant and deliberate effort to stay healthy and realize their highest potentials for well being.
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This textbook, which has enjoyed a long life of its own, emphasizes the way readers can take control of their own health and lifestyle habits in order to develop a lifetime program of wellness. Consisting of 15 chapters and some 40 "wellness tests," the book addresses behavior modification, cardiorespiratory endurance and exercise, muscular strength and flexibility, body composition, nutrition, weight management, cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention, stress management, addictive behavior, and sexual disease. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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