Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Plan (with Personal Daily Log, Profile Plus 2005, and Health, Fitness and Wellness Explorer, InfoTrac) [Paperback]

Wener W.K. Hoeger (Author), Sharon A. Hoeger (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0534635229 | ISBN-13: 978-0534635220 | Publication Date: March 29, 2004 | Edition: 8

LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS was the first book in the field to cover both fitness and wellness in the same text. Now in its Eighth Edition, this proven text--with its uniquely strong emphasis on using behavior modification techniques to achieve healthy lifestyle habits--has been praised across the country for its ability to help students realize their highest potentials for health, fitness, and well-being. Each chapter guides students in developing a personalized physical fitness and wellness program by allowing them to chart and update their progress as they meet their goals. The Hoegers integrate activities throughout each chapter (rather than placing them at the ends of chapters) so students can complete each fitness and wellness experience as the concepts behind those experiences are introduced. Plus, four powerful resources--the PROFILE PLUS 2005 CD-ROM, PERSONAL DAILY LOG, INFOTRAC COLLEGE EDITION, and the HEALTH/FITNESS AND WELLNESS INTERNET EXPLORER--are all automatically packaged with this edition! PROFILE PLUS gives students unprecedented flexibility in making lifestyle changes by providing additional assessments, a behavior change plan, nutrition analysis tools, and exercise logs and prescriptions. It also includes interactive quizzing to help them master and remember key concepts. A PERSONAL DAILY LOG allows students to track their progress in achieving their personal goals. Included are tips for achieving test success, a variety of records and tables to track body composition and body mass index, exercise and strength training record forms, and more! The HEALTH/FITNESS AND WELLNESS INTERNET EXPLORER and four months of access to INFOTRAC COLLEGE EDITION provide students with additional resources for obtaining information about key topics. This all inclusive package gives students a wealth of tools to help them explore, experience, and better understand the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

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About the Author

Dr. Werner W.K. Hoeger is a full-time professor and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Boise State University. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and is the recipient of the first 2004 Presidential Award for Research and Scholarship in the College of Education at Boise State University. Dr. Hoeger uses his knowledge and experiences to write engaging, informative books that thoroughly address today's fitness and wellness issues in a format accessible to students. In addition to LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS, he has written several other textbooks for Wadsworth – Cengage Learning, including Fitness and Wellness, Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness, Principles and Labs for Physical Fitness, Wellness: Guidelines for a Healthy Lifestyle, and Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness (with Terry-Ann Spitzer Gibson). Dr. Hoeger was the first author to write a college fitness textbook that incorporated the "wellness" concept and introduced the principle that to truly improve fitness and health and to achieve wellness, a person needs to go beyond the basic health-related components of physical fitness. As an innovator in the field, Dr. Hoeger has developed many fitness and wellness assessment tools, including fitness tests such as the modified sit and reach, total body rotation, shoulder rotation, muscular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and soda pop coordination tests. Proving that he "practices what he preaches," at 48, he was the oldest male competitor in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He raced in the sport of luge along with his 17-year-old son Christopher. This was the first time in Winter Olympics history that father and son competed in the same event.

Sharon A. Hoeger is the vice president of Fitness & Wellness, Inc., of Boise, Idaho, and a coauthor of five of the seven Hoeger fitness and wellness titles. She also is the author of the Profile Plus software that accompanies the Hoeger/Hoeger series of fitness and wellness textbooks. Her innovations in this area since the publication of the first edition of Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness set the standard for fitness and wellness computer software used in this market today. Husband and wife have been jogging and strength-training together for over 28 years. They are the proud parents of five children, all of whom are involved in sports and lifetime fitness activities. Their motto: "Families that exercise together, stay together." Sharon Hoeger received her degree in computer science from Brigham Young University, graduating magna cum laude and completing the degree in only three years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Brooks Cole; 8 edition (March 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534635229
• ISBN-13: 978-0534635220
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #737,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stop buying get fit quick recipes from people who only want your money. This book is a textbook used in colleges to teach the people who are tomorrows fitness experts. Become a fitness expert when you read this book. Make it your bible for what to eat, when to eat, how to track your diet, and then how to incorporate the right exercises into your daily life in order to have the best chance you can give yourself for a healthy life.