The "T"Zone Health And Fitness: Sports Energy and Nutrition

The "T"Zone Health And Fitness: Sports Energy and Nutrition Review

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The "T" Zone: Target Training Zones. Book I, Sports Energy and Nutrition is the book for you who believes in the benefits of exercise.This book is targeted to you who believes in staying healthy and who has already taken the steps to rediscover your physical body and its potential.This book gives you a basic understanding of sports energy and metabolism and the nutrition-hydration needed for optimal exercise performance and recovery and how to keep your energy balance and ideal body weight.Learn about how much and what you need to drink and eat for a 1-hour or 3-hour training session or competitive event. Learn about dehydration, heatstroke and heat cramps. Learn about the "power" of the placebo effect and take a glimpse at some facts on ergogenic aids.Also includes:¿ Fundamentals of the energy metabolic systems.¿ Training of the aerobic and anaerobic energy systems.¿ The fuels that burn in the "metabolic furnaces" and their energy significance.

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Oct 08, 2011 15:44:05

Full Life Fitness

Full Life Fitness Review

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"Full Life Fitness" aims to help older adults enjoy the benefits of physical exercise while avoiding the fatigue and overexertion associated with many exercise plans. It focuses on the special needs of older adults by featuring only low-stress and no-stress exercises. All of the exercises are designed to help avoid pulled muscles, undue soreness, overtaxed joints, and excess fatigue. "Full Life Fitness" covers four major categories of exercise: aerobics, muscle conditioning, stretching, and water workouts. Readers will learn the benefits of these four exercise types as well as how to match physical fitness goals with the right exercises for achieving them. The book also features complete instructions and informative illustrations for a wide variety of exercises in each of the four categories. And it includes specific recommendations on which exercises readers should be doing, how long, and how often. Readers will also learn how to use the exercises to put together their own complete exercise programme. Or they can choose from the ready-to-use 3-day, 4-day 5-day, and 30-day plans.

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Oct 07, 2011 15:22:21

Fresh Start: The Stanford Medical School Health and Fitness Program

Fresh Start: The Stanford Medical School Health and Fitness Program Review

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This book emphasizes that fitness brings tremendous benefits to health—and also that fitness is one factor over which we have control. Written by physicians and researchers at Stanford University, it offers practical guidance that will help the average person start and maintain an exercise regime, gaining a sense of well-being, an excellent way to control weight, and the ability to stay active as we age. Self-tests and exercise routines for different levels of fitness are included.

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Sep 29, 2011 13:16:34

Professional Group Excercise / Dance & Fitness Instructor Certification Course Manual: Basic Scientific Principles of Aerobic, Dance and Fitness (Volume 1)

Professional Group Excercise / Dance & Fitness Instructor Certification Course Manual: Basic Scientific Principles of Aerobic, Dance and Fitness (Volume 1) Review

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A detailed analysis of the crucial scientific principles of Aerobic Fitness, Dance and Cardio Vascular Training. Part 1 of 2.

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Sep 27, 2011 11:41:40

The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, No Matter Your Weight (Marlowe Diabetes Library)

The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, No Matter Your Weight (Marlowe Diabetes Library) Review

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Most of the 18.2 million Americans currently living with diabetes have been advised by their doctors, or other health-care providers, that weight loss is essential for them to control their condition and stay healthy. However, the vast majority of people fail miserably at dieting, ultimately regaining the pounds they manage to lose. The latest research confirms, though, that diabetic people do not have to lose significant amounts of body fat to be healthy. The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan guides people step-by-step to achieve a healthy body despite having excess body fat and diabetes or pre-diabetes—primarily by becoming physically fit. With practical information and tips on physical fitness, blood sugar balance with physical activity, nutrition, nutritional supplements, emotional fitness, diabetic medications, motivation, and more, The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan gives readers the knowledge they need to prevent, reverse, and control their diabetes through fitness—and to live a long, healthy life without the need for dieting and weight loss—making this the essential diabetes fitness resource.

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Sep 18, 2011 15:08:04

Got Sugar? Workout Companion: The Sweet Guide to Fitness and Well-Being

Got Sugar? Workout Companion: The Sweet Guide to Fitness and Well-Being Review

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Through her life as a single mom & entrepreneur, Debbie has perfected fun ways to stay healthy while managing a busy schedule. She has trained for 2 marathons, qualified for Boston, won Wipeout (ABC's obstacle course game show) & coaches sports weekly. Included are easy yet challenging workout schedules with exact plans & terminology to maintain strength, perfect form & have fun with new goals. This Workout Companion Book delves into the structure of our muscles and how to easily understand exercises relating to balancing muscle masses and tone. Included are a year's worth of efficient workout plans that have helped Debbie succeed at more than 50 triathlons and running races over the past 15 years. Having the tools to burn off whatever you eat is what this book is about. It's great to keep in your gym bag for easy reference.

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Sep 15, 2011 20:18:05

Health and Fitness: An Elementary Teacher's Guide

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This is a textbook for teaching health and physical education in elementary schools. It is written for both classroom teachers and physical education specialists. Its major theme is that of creating a concerted effort to improve the everyday activity levels and nutritional practices of the entire school. The physical educator’s role is expanded beyond the gym to include recess design and staff development. The classroom teacher is provided many usable physical brake activities. Thorough nutritional information is provided for both.

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Sep 14, 2011 19:18:37

Boxing Kickboxing Fitness Certification Course Manual: Joseph E. Antouri (Volume 1)

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Boxing Kickboxing Certification course manual for personal fitness trainers.

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Sep 09, 2011 04:47:34

The 10 Vital Steps to Fitness, Health, and Diet

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This comprehensive book features 10 modern and easy steps to attain total health and fitness through exercise and diet. The 10 steps include motivational tips and exercises; aerobic and anaerobic tables; indoor and outdoor exercises and sports; as well as modern and established dietary guidelines to enhance health and performance.

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Sep 04, 2011 19:23:20

High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone: A Heart Rate Monitoring Program for Lifelong Fitness

High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone: A Heart Rate Monitoring Program for Lifelong Fitness Review

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- Get up to speed on the use of heart rate monitor technology in high school physical education and health instruction.
- Teach students about lifelong heart fitness.
- Help students individualize their fitness goals and assess their own progress.

Veteran physical educators Deve Swaim and Sally Edwards introduced middle school teachers to heart rate monitors in Middle School Healthy Hearts in the Zone (published in 2002). Their latest book focuses on the unique needs of high school teachers and is designed to make it easy for you to use this technology in your high school curriculum.

How is High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone different from Middle School Healthy Hearts in the Zone? The book provides additional worksheets and workouts for high school students, expanded coverage of the health benefits of heart fitness, in-depth technical information on heart rate monitors, and guidelines for using the technology in sports.

Learn how to
- easily use heart rate monitors—even if you're a novice,
- incorporate heart rate monitor technology into your high school curricula,
- facilitate experiential learning that helps students see and feel how heart health fitness fits into the curriculum,
- add variety to your teaching to keep students interested, and
- provide athletes with a new way to monitor their progress.

The text explains the rationale behind using heart rate monitors and heart zone training in high school curricula. It provides 46 lesson plans that emphasize self-directed learning, goal setting, and self-motivation. It also presents 72 pull-out, reproducible student worksheets and pull-out log and journal pages.

Whether you're new to heart rate monitor technology or you're already using the device, you need High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone—everything you need to succeed is here.

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Sep 02, 2011 15:15:04