Get Fit, Stay Fit Book

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 Becoming A Wise Consumer

10 Practicing Safe Fitness

Epilogue: Now Do You See Why You Should Care About Getting Fit?

Appendix A: Food Composition Table

LABS

1 -1 Importance of Physical Activity

1 -2 Daily Fitness Schedule

2 -1 Your Personal Stress Inventory

2 -2 Health Style: A Self-Test

3 -1 Medical History Questionnaire

3 -2 Planning for a Physical Activity Program

4 -1 Calculating Target Heart Rate

4 -2 1.5 Mile Test

4 -3 Cooper's 12 -minute Walking/Running Test

5 -1 Push-ups

2 Bent-Knee Sit-ups

5 -3 Muscular Endurance Test

6 -1 Trunk Flexion

6 -2 Trunk Extension

6 -3 Shoulder Lift Test

7 -1 Calculating Percentage of Body Fat Using Skinfold Measurements

7 -2 Determining Your Basal Metabolic Rate

7 -3 Calculating Caloric Expenditure

7 -4 Calculating Caloric Intake

8 -1 Nutritional Knowledge Survey

8 -2 Assessing Your Nutritional Habits

8 -3 7 -Day Diet Analysis