Your Child's Fitness: Practical Advice for Parents [Paperback]

Susan Kalish (Author), Ronald Melvin Lawrence (Author, Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

This guide provides parents with useful information on testing the fitness of their children in terms of endurance, strength, flexibility and body composition. The book offers parents advice on helping their children develop total body fitness; meeting the nutritional needs of their children; becoming an advocate for effective physical education in their children's school; using community programmes and organizations to get their children involved in physical activity, and choosing and working with a doctor to keep their child healthy.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Your Child’s Fitness is an easy-to-read, informative book . . . Each chapter is filled with practical advice on how to incorporate fitness into your child’s everyday life."

Journal of Women’s Health

"Although the course of health care reform likely will be debated in Congress for years to come, the importance of developing healthy lifestyles--at all ages--is becoming increasingly clear. In her book, Susan Kalish provides a realistic evaluation of the fitness level of our young people and does more than prescribe exercise and diet programs as remedies. She develops a fundamentally new and constructive approach based on the active leadership of each of us as adults and parents."

Richard G. Lugar United States Senator, Indiana

"An important topic, a ‘must-read’ for all parents."

Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Cooper Clinic

About the Author

Susan Kalish is the executive director of the American Running and Fitness Association (AR&FA), a national nonprofit educational association of recreational athletes, and she is the executive director of the American Medical Athletic Association, a national nonprofit educational association of medical professionals personally interested in physical fitness. Together these groups develop educational and motivational programs to encourage more Americans to become fit.

Since 1983 Susan has been editor-in-chief of Running & FitNews, a monthly newsletter that reports on sports medicine, nutrition, and health research. She has developed a number of national programs to encourage people to exercise and help them maintain their exercise programs, including Exercise Across America, Share the Road, AR&FA Sportsmedicine Referral Network, AR&FA Running Shoe Database, and AR&FA Exercise Trails Network. In addition, Susan has written numerous articles on exercise, training, and diet for such publications as Encyclopedia Britannica, Running Times, Women’s Sports & Fitness, and the Washington Business Journal. She is also the author of The New AR&FA MultiSport Log Book.

A Board of Advisors member of the Rails to Trails Conservancy and the American Volksmarch Association, Susan also serves on the editorial board for Shape magazine, the steering committee for Healthy People 2000 Physical Activity Components, and the ad hoc committee for organizing the Marine Corps Marathon. Susan lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband, John McMahon, and her two children, Matthew and Alexa.

Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873225406
• ISBN-13: 978-0873225403
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,781,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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