Fit & Well Alternate Edition: Core Concepts and Labs in Physical Fitness and Wellness, 10/e
Thomas D. Fahey,
Cal State Chico Paul M. Insel,
Stanford University Walton T. Roth,
Stanford University
ISBN: 0077411838 Copyright year: 2013
New To This Edition
Fitness Tips/Wellness Tips: These practical tips are designed to catch students' attention and get them thinking--and doing something--about their fitness and wellness. These two very brief new features appear throughout each chapter.
Personal Challenges: These quick assessment/exercise activities challenge the student to do something immediately to assess and enhance their fitness or wellness. Personal Challenges are designed to motivate students and get them to consider the personal benefits or effects of action.
Wellness in the Digital Age: This new pedagogical feature is designed to tap students' interest in video games, mobile communications, social media, and other digital innovations. This feature focuses on the many new fitness- and wellness-related devices and applications that are appearing every day, from the Wii Fit system to iPhone apps to digital calorie counters and push-up coaches.
LearnSmart Adaptive Diagnostic Testing Program: Connect Fit & Well now includes LearnSmart, an unparalleled adaptive testing program that diagnoses students knowledge of a subject and then creates an individualized learning path to help them master fitness and wellness concepts and increase their academic performance. Most importantly, LearnSmart for Fit & Well helps students establish a solid conceptual foundation that will enable them to create a personal path towards healthy change and lifetime wellness.
Full Integration with any Course Management System: Connect Fit & Well can now be easily and seamlessly integrated with any course management system through McGraw-Hill Campus. Among other things, this integration enables Connect activities, assessments, grades, and other content to appear within your university's course management system. Setup is fast, easy, and flexible, and students can access Connect using their university login.
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Connect Fit & Well: Connect Fit and Well gives students access to a wealth of online interactive content, including fitness labs and self-assessments, video activities, the fitness and nutrition journal, the behavior change workbook, and practice quizzes with immediate feedback. The media-rich eBook contains embedded video clips, Web links, key terms and definitions, and behavior change tools.
The assignable activities you will find in Connect Fit & Well include:
33 online labs
61 videos
pre and post tests for every chapter
45 box activities
30 Internet exercises
70 learning objective based quizzes
optional ebook
Color transparency sections: New to this edition are two vibrant color transparency sections called “Touring the Cardiorespiratory System” and “Touring the Musculoskeletal System,” inserted in Chapters 3 and 4, respectively. These sections offer a visually enhanced presentation of key structures and processes relevant to fitness and wellness. In addition to illustrations of the cardiorespiratory system, the heart and lungs, deep and superficial muscles, and the knee joint, the sections include representations of the processes of atherosclerosis and muscle hypertrophy and a visual explanation of diabetes.
"The Evidence for Exercise": New to this edition is a feature series called “The Evidence for Exercise.” These boxes, appearing in every chapter, let students know that the physical activity recommendations and guidelines included in the chapter are based on research studies. Each box poses a research question, research findings are described, and recent studies are cited.
New and updated coverage of key topics: The tenth edition of Fit and Well, Alternate has been updated throughout with current statistics, the latest developments in fitness and wellness, and timely trends and topics. In addition, the text has been streamlined for accessibility and readability, new headings have been inserted, and key data has been chunked into lists, charts, tables, and figures.
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