Fitness and Wellness (with Personal Daily Log, Profile Plus 2005, and Health, Fitness and Wellness Explorer) - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 053463544X ISBN 13: 9780534635442

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2004

Synopsis

FITNESS AND WELLNESS, SIXTH EDITION is a colorful, concise, less expensive option for instructors who value the powerful instruction that is the hallmark of the Hoegers' fitness and wellness texts. If you want the beauty found in the more comprehensive fitness and wellness text, the large ancillary package (see the "Ancillaries" section for a full listing), but are concerned about price and/or do not have enough time to get through the material, then this is your text! FITNESS AND WELLNESS, now package with the Profile Plus 2005 CD-ROM, concentrates on health-related physical fitness components, with beneficial information about wellness. Inside, you'll find discussions on motivation and behavior modification with an emphasis 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 053463544X
• ISBN 13: 9780534635442
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 272