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Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness:Physical Best Tchr Gd-2E

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This book covers all the bases that teachers need for implementing a health-related physical education curriculum to promote lifelong fitness. It is for use with a K-12 physical education curriculum.

In the simplest terms, it's a teacher's guide that's based on current science and is very up-to-date.

One thing I especially like about the guide is that it gives the teacher cautions about certain exercises. For example, there are resistance training cautions.

A PE teacher certainly does not want to be responsible for allowing a student to injure himself. So you learn how to develop a fitness program that is safe while, at the same time, providing powerful benefits.

The authors say, ". . . You should . . . seek additional training specific to working with children and adolescents in developing muscular strength and endurance in a safe and effective manner."

Here is a look at the contents . . .

Part 1. Foundations of Health-Related Fitness and Physical Activity
Chapter 1. Introduction to Physical Best
Chapter 2. Physical Activity Behavior and Motivation
Chapter 3. Basic Training Principles
Chapter 4. Nutrition

Part II. Components of Health-Related Fitness
Chapter 5. Aerobic Fitness
Chapter 6. Muscular Strength and Endurance
Chapter 7. Flexibility
Chapter 8. Body Composition

Part III. Curriculum and Teaching Methods
Chapter 9. Curriculum Development for Health-Related Physical Fitness Education
Chapter 10. Teaching Styles and Strategies
Chapter 11. Including Everyone

Part IV. Foundations of Assessment in Health-Related Fitness and Physical Activity
Chapter 12. Principles of Assessment
Chapter 13. Assessing Health-Related Physical Fitness
Chapter 14. Assessing Fitness Knowledge, Self-Responsibility, and Attitudes

Appendix A: Worksheets and Reproducibles
Appendix B: Nutrient Content Claims
Appendix C: Exercises for Prepuberty
Appendix D: Alternatives for Questionable Exercises
Appendix E: Body Mass and Composition Measures
Appendix F: CDC's Guidelines for School and Community Programs to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity Among Young People
Appendix G: Student Asthma Action Card
Appendix H: Middle School Assessment Example: P.E.--L.I.F.E. Assessment Project

Glossary
References
Index
About Physical Best

According to the publisher, Human Kinetics, "The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), a nonprofit professional organization, is an association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. NASPE is dedicated to educating the general public about the importance of physical education for all young people. Through its members as well as corporate and public partnerships, NASPE develops and supports sport and physical activity programs that promote healthy behaviors and individual well-being. NASPE's 20,000 members include K-12 physical educators, college and university faculty, researchers, coaches, athletic directors, and trainers."

The book is well edited and nicely laid out in a manner that makes for easy reading and referral.

Highly recommended.

- Susanna K. Hutcheson

I ordered this book March 20 and I still have not received it however the money has been take from my account but I do not have the book that I payed for