Unit I. Building a Foundation
Chapter 1. Fitness, Health, and Wellness for All
Lesson 1.1 Scientific Foundations
Self-Assessment: Physical Fitness Challenges
Lesson 1.2 Lifelong Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Taking Charge: Learning to Self-Assess
Self-Management: Skills for Learning to Self-Assess
Taking Action: The Warm-Up
Chapter Review
Chapter 2. Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle and Self-Management Skills
Lesson 2.1 Adopting Healthy Lifestyles
Self-Assessment: Practicing Physical Fitness Tests
Lesson 2.2 Learning Self-Management Skills
Taking Charge: Building Knowledge and Understanding
Self-Management: Skills for Building Knowledge and Understanding
Taking Action: Fitness Trails
Chapter Review
Chapter 3. Goal Setting and Program Planning
Lesson 3.1 Goal Setting
Self-Assessment: Assessing Muscle Fitness
Lesson 3.2 Program Planning
Taking Charge: Setting Goals
Self-Management: Skills for Setting Goals
Taking Action: Exercise Circuits
Chapter Review
Unit II. Becoming and Staying Physically Active
Chapter 4. Getting Started in Physical Activity
Lesson 4.1 Safe and Smart Physical Activity
Self-Assessment: Body Composition and Flexibility
Lesson 4.2 Health and Wellness Benefits
Taking Charge: Reducing Risk Factors
Self-Management: Skills for Reducing Risk Factors
Taking Action: Walking for Health
Chapter Review
Chapter 5. How Much Is Enough?
Lesson 5.1 How Much Physical Activity Is Enough?
Self-Assessment: PACER and Trunk Lift
Lesson 5.2 How Much Fitness Is Enough?
Taking Charge: Learning to Self-Monitor
Self-Management: Skills for Learning to Self-Monitor
Taking Action: Physical Activity Pyramid Circuit
Chapter Review
Chapter 6. Skill Learning and Injury Prevention
Lesson 6.1 Skills and Skill-Related Physical Fitness
Self-Assessment: Assessing Skill-Related Physical Fitness
Lesson 6.2 Physical Activity and Injury
Taking Charge: Improving Performance Skills
Self-Management: Skills for Improving Performance
Taking Action: Safe Exercise Circuit
Chapter Review
Unit III. Moderate and Vigorous Physical Activity
Chapter 7. Moderate Physical Activity
Lesson 7.1 Moderate Physical Activity Facts
Self-Assessment: Walking Test
Lesson 7.2 Preparing a Moderate Physical Activity Plan
Taking Charge: Learning to Manage Time
Self-Management: Skills for Managing Time
Taking Action: Your Moderate Physical Activity Plan
Chapter Review
Chapter 8. Cardiorespiratory Endurance
Lesson 8.1 Cardiorespiratory Endurance Facts
Self-Assessment: Step Test and One-Mile Run Test
Lesson 8.2 Building Cardiorespiratory Endurance
Taking Charge: Self-Confidence
Self-Management: Skills for Building Self-Confidence
Taking Action: Target Heart Rate Workouts
Chapter Review
Chapter 9. Vigorous Physical Activity
Lesson 9.1 Vigorous Aerobics, Sport, and Recreation
Self-Assessment: Assessing Jogging Techniques
Lesson 9.2 Preparing and Performing a Safe and Vigorous Physical Activity Program
Taking Charge: Activity Participation
Self-Management: Skills for Choosing Good Activities
Taking Action: Your Vigorous Physical Activity Plan
Chapter Review
Unit IV. Muscle Fitness and Flexibility
Chapter 10. Muscle Fitness Basics
Lesson 10.1 Muscle Fitness Facts
Self-Assessment: Muscle Fitness Testing
Lesson 10.2 Building Muscle Fitness
Taking Charge: Preventing Relapse
Self-Management: Skills for Preventing Relapse
Taking Action: Resistance Machine Exercises
Chapter Review
Chapter 11. Muscle Fitness Applications
Lesson 11.1 Core Fitness, Posture, and Back Care
Self-Assessment: Healthy Back Test
Lesson 11.2 Ergogenic Aids and Muscle Fitness Exercise Planning
Taking Charge: Finding Social Support
Self-Management: Skills for Finding Social Support
Taking Action: Your Muscle Fitness Exercise Plan
Chapter Review
Chapter 12. Flexibility
Lesson 12.1 Flexibility Facts
Self-Assessment: Arm, Leg, and Trunk Flexibility
Lesson 12.2 Preparing a Flexibility Exercise Plan
Taking Charge: Overcoming Barriers
Self-Management: Skills for Overcoming Barriers
Taking Action: Performing Your Flexibility Exercise Plan
Chapter Review
Unit V. Healthy Choices
Chapter 13. Body Composition
Lesson 13.1 Body Composition Facts
Self-Assessment: Body Measurements
Lesson 13.2 Energy Balance
Taking Charge: Improving Physical Self-Perception
Self-Management: Skills for Self-Perception
Taking Action: Elastic Band Workout
Chapter Review
Chapter 14. Physical Activity Program Planning
Lesson 14.1 Physical Activity and Fitness Assessment
Self-Assessment: Your Personal Fitness Test Battery
Lesson 14.2 Maintaining Active Lifestyles
Taking Charge: Changing Attitudes
Self-Management: Skills for Building Positive Attitudes
Taking Action: Your Physical Activity Plan
Chapter Review
Chapter 15. Making Good Consumer Choices
Lesson 15.1 Health and Fitness Quackery
Self-Assessment: Assessing Your Posture
Lesson 15.2 Evaluating Health Clubs, Equipment, Media, and Internet Materials
Taking Charge: Learning to Think Critically
Self-Management: Skills for Thinking Critically
Taking Action: My Health and Fitness Club
Chapter Review
Unit VI. Wellness Perspective
Chapter 16. Choosing Nutritious Food
Lesson 16.1 A Healthy Diet
Self-Assessment: Energy Balance
Lesson 16.2 Making Healthy Food Choices
Taking Charge: Saying No
Self-Management: Skills for Saying No
Taking Action: Burn It Up Workout
Chapter Review
Chapter 17. Stress Management
Lesson 17.1 Facts About Stress
Self-Assessment: Identifying Signs of Stress
Lesson 17.2 Managing Stress
Taking Charge: Managing Competitive Stress
Self-Management: Skills for Managing Competitive Stress
Taking Action: Relaxation Exercises
Chapter Review
Chapter 18. Making Choices and Planning for Health and Wellness
Lesson 18.1 Lifestyle Choices for Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Self-Assessment: Healthy Lifestyle Questionnaire
Lesson 18.2 Healthy Lifestyle Planning and Career Opportunities
Taking Charge: Thinking Success
Self-Management: Skills for Thinking Success
Taking Action: Your Healthy Lifestyle Plan
Chapter Review
Unit VII. Moving Through Life
Chapter 19. Strategies for Active Living
Lesson 19.1 Opportunities in Physical Education
Self-Assessment: Assessing Game Strategy and Tactics
Lesson 19.2 Strategy and Tactics
Taking Charge: Developing Tactics
Self-Management: Skills for Developing Tactics
Taking Action: Cooperative Games
Chapter Review
Chapter 20. The Science of Active Living
Lesson 20.1 Moving Your Body
Self-Assessment: Analyzing Basic Skills
Lesson 20.2 Moving Implements and Objects
Taking Charge: Positive Self-Talk
Self-Management: Skills for Positive Self-Talk
Taking Action: Applying Principles
Chapter Review
Chapter 21. Lifelong Activity
Lesson 21.1 Social Interactions in Physical Activity
Self-Assessment: Modifying Rules in Games
Lesson 21.2 Active Living Opportunities
Taking Charge: Conflict Resolution
Self-Management: Skills for Conflict Resolution
Taking Action: Team Building
Chapter Review
Dr. Charles B. (“Chuck”) Corbin, PhD, is professor emeritus in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University. He has published more than 200 journal articles and has authored or coauthored more than 90 books, including Concepts of Physical Fitness, Concepts of Fitness and Wellness, Fitness for Life, and Fitness for Life: Middle School and Fitness for Life: Elementary School, all winners of Texty Awards. Dr. Corbin is internationally recognized as an expert in physical activity, health, and wellness promotion and youth physical fitness. He has presented keynote addresses at more than 40 state AHPERD conventions, made major addresses in more than 15 countries, and presented numerous named lectures. He is a past president and emeritus fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology, a fellow of the North American Society for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance Professionals, an ACSM fellow, and a life member and honor fellow of AAHPERD. His awards include the Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award from the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition (PCFSN) and National Jaycees; Distinguished Service Award of the PCFSN; and the Honor Award, Physical Fitness Council Honor Award, Hanson Award, and Alliance Scholar Award from AAHPERD. He received distinguished alumnus awards from the University of New Mexico and the University of Illinois. He served for more than 20 years as a member of the Advisory Board of Fitnessgram and was the first chair of the Science Board of the PCFSN. He was a member of an Institute on Medicine (IOM) committee for youth fitness testing. He was selected to the National Association of Sports and Physical Education (NASPE) Hall of Fame. In 2009 Dr. Corbin was chosen for the Gulick Award, the highest award of AAHPERD. In 2013 he received the Hetherington Award, the highest honor of the National Academy of Kinesiology.
Guy C. Le Masurier, PhD, is a professor of sport, health, and physical education at Vancouver Island University (Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada). He has published numerous articles related to youth physical activity and physical education and coauthored the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Physical Activity Guidelines for Children. Dr. Le Masurier has given more than 30 research and professional presentations at national and regional meetings. He reviews research for numerous professional journals and has contributed to Fitness for Life, Fifth Edition, and the Physical Best Activity Guide. Dr. Le Masurier is a member of AAHPERD, NASPE, ACSM, and Canadian AHPERD. He is also a research consortium fellow of SHAPE America.
Contributing author: Karen E. McConnell, PhD, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, is a certified health education specialist (CHES) and has taught at the university level for more than 15 years in areas related to health and fitness education, curriculum and assessment, and exercise science. She has written or contributed to over a dozen book chapters and texts, including the teacher resources for Fitness for Life (fifth and sixth editions). She is a recipient of the Arthur Broten Young Scholar Award and has received the University Professional of the Year Award from the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance for contributions made to state standards in health and fitness. She enjoys running, having commpleted 38 half marathons and one marathon. As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, she enjoys participating in most outdoor activities.
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