Product Description

PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, FOURTH EDITION, focuses on the "fitness" topics, including body composition, cardiorespiratory endurance, and muscular strength and flexibility. Hoeger/Hoeger’s text does, as well, include some wellness coverage by including a chapter on Nutrition, Stress Management, and an overview chapter on Healthy Lifestyles. With over 100 pieces of art to make this text truly engaging, it is also designed to give students the motivation and techniques they need to know to apply their learning experiences and knowledge received from their fitness course. Each chapter allows readers to chart and update their progress in the various components of physical fitness. The emphasis is on teaching individuals how to take control of their personal health and lifestyle habits so they can make a constant and deliberate effort to stay healthy and realize their highest potentials for well being.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1700675 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"'very current research included, such as [information] on functional foods and genetically modified foods."

"I enjoyed the abundance of information. You provide everything... The information you provide is very thorough."

"Excellent information provided to educate the reader' There is a wealth of information that will properly educate and prepare our new physical educators."

"[I] loved the section for Women."

About the Author
Werner W.K. Hoeger is the most successful Fitness and Wellness college textbook author. Hoeger is a full-time professor at Boise State University who uses his knowledge and personal experiences to write engaging, informative books that thoroughly address today's fitness and wellness issues in a format accessible to students. Hoeger has written several textbooks for Thomson/Wadsworth, including PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, Fourth Edition; LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Seventh Edition; FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Fifth Edition; WELLNESS: GUIDELINES FOR A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE, Third Edition; and WATER AEROBICS FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Third Edition (with Terry-Ann Spitzer Gibson). Hoeger was the first author to write a college fitness textbook that incorporated the 'wellness' concept. In 1986, with the release of the First Edition of LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Hoeger introduced the principle that to truly improve fitness, health, quality of life, and achieve 'wellness,' a person needed to go beyond the basic health-related components of physical fitness. His work was so well received that most fitness authors immediately followed his lead in the field. As an innovator in the area, Hoeger has developed many fitness and wellness assessment tools, including new tests such as the shoulder rotation and the modified sit and reach. Proving that he 'practices what he preaches,' Werner Hoeger, at 48, was the oldest qualifier in the sport of luge for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He competed with his son Christopher (the youngest competitor) in the men's singles event.

Customer Reviews

Great resource book with a very few minor errors
This is a great book overall and is written by a couple who have been married for over 30 years and have been actively engaged in a healthy lifestyle all that time. I'm very much into health, though through more simple and alternative methods, but this gave me a basic working knowledge of the body and exercise which I found incredibly helpful. I found a handfull of things I would disagree with, mainly concering food and drink... such as the comment that caffinated beverages count towards your water intake... I would vehemently argue that as much proof exists to the contrary ... caffiene is also a diuretic. But I have a good underlying knowlege of food so I was able to just ignore the things I disagreed with. But the mechanics of the body and exercise were wonderful and its a good source of fact and also can be quite inspiring to read. I learned many things I didn't know, such as where you carry your fat makes a difference in your health. Knowing this was written by a couple who practice what they preach really made it even more meaningful.

~Nancy

fitness book highly informative!
very informative book about health and fitness, with many recent studies and facts to support why we need to be better fit, especially here in the USA!