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Get Fit, Stay Fit, 5/e
William E. Prentice, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill


Table of Contents

1: Getting Fit: Why Should You Care?
2: Creating A Healthy Lifestyle
3: Starting Your Own Fitness Program
4: Developing Cardiorespiratory Fitness
5: Improving Muscular Strength, Endurance, and Power
6: Increasing Flexibility Through Stretching
7: Limiting Your Body Fat Through Diet and Exercise
8: Eating Right
9: Practicing Safe Fitness
10: Becoming A Wise Consumer

Epilogue: Now Do You See Why You Should Care About Getting Fit?
Appendix A: Dietary Reference Intakes: Recommended Levels for Individual Intake from the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine—National Academy of Sciences
Appendix B: Food Composition Table

Lab Activity 1-1: Importance of Physical Fitness
Lab Activity 1-2: Daily Fitness Schedule
Lab Activity 2-1: Your Personal Stress Inventory
Lab Activity 2-2: Health Style: A Self-Test
Lab Activity 3-1: Medical History Questionnaire
Lab Activity 3-2: Planning for a Physical Activity Program
Lab Activity 4-1: Calculating Target Heart Rate
Lab Activity 4-2: The Rockport Fitness Walking Test
Lab Activity 4-3: Cooper’s 12-Minute Walking/Running Test
Lab Activity 5-1: Push-Ups
Lab Activity 5-2: Bent-Knee Sit-Ups
Lab Activity 5-3: Muscular Endurance Test
Lab Activity 6-1: Trunk Flexion
Lab Activity 6-2: Trunk Extension
Lab Activity 6-3: Shoulder Lift Test
Lab Activity 7-1: Nutritional Knowledge Survey
Lab Activity 7-2: Assessing Your Nutritional Habits
Lab Activity 7-3: 7-Day Diet Analysis
Lab Activity 8-1: Calculating Body Mass Index (BMI)
Lab Activity 8-2: Calculating Percent Body Fat Using Skinfold Measurements
Lab Activity 8-3: Determining Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
Lab Activity 8-4: Calculating Caloric Expenditure
Lab Activity 8-5: Calculating Caloric Intake
Lab Activity 8-6: Worksheet for Estimating Caloric Balance