Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness (with Personal Log and InfoTrac) (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Softcover

Hoeger, Wener W.K.; Hoeger, Sharon A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534582575 ISBN 13: 9780534582579

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Werner W.K. Hoeger Professor Emeritus in the Department of Kinesiology at Boise State University, and fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. The 2004 recipient of the Presidential Award for Research and Scholarship in the College of Education at Boise State University, Dr. Hoeger continues to research and lecture on exercise physiology, physical fitness, and wellness. In addition to PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, Dr. Hoeger has published several Cengage Learning texts, including Fitness and Wellness, Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness, Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness, Wellness: Guidelines for a Healthy Lifestyle, and Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness (with Terry-Ann Spitzer Gibson). Dr. Hoeger is a former luge runner and Winter Olympian, and renowned fitness and wellness innovator. He developed many popular fitness assessment tools in use today, such as the modified sit and reach, total body rotation, shoulder rotation, muscular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and soda pop coordination tests.

Review:

"The authors have used several examples which demonstrate the application of the information being presented. This makes the information come to life and makes for a more readable and understandable text."

"I feel the authors, Hoeger and Hoeger, have made a positive contribution tot he field of physical fitness and wellness with this updated edition. In fact, I can honestly write that this book is one of the most enjoyable to read, yet informative, that I have seen for the purpose of serving as a college textbook."

"This text is an easy-to-read publication that uses visuals well. It translates scientific jargon into everyday language so the non-science major in the core curriculum wellness class is not at a disadvantage. There is excellent use of photographs, tables, figures, and text boxes to supplement the written descriptions. ... This text meets our needs better than any other wellness text, which is why we have adopted it for use in our classes over the last 8 years."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0534582575
• ISBN 13: 9780534582579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448