Take charge of your wellness journey with "Principles and Labs for Fitness & Wellness" 17th Edition! This book is designed to empower you to build an active, balanced lifestyle through personalized goal-setting and practical strategies for overcoming challenges. The new Your Fitness and Wellness Journey feature encourages self-reflection, helps you set realistic goals and guides you through steps to improve your health habits. With interactive tools, exercise videos, self-assessments and online labs, you'll gain the skills to make informed choices in fitness, nutrition and wellness, benefiting yourself and those around you.
1. Physical Fitness and Wellness.
2. Behavior Modification.
3. Physical Activities.
4. Diet.
5. Body Composition.
6. Body Weight.
7. Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
8. Muscular Fitness.
9. Musculoskeletal Flexibility.
10. Movement Skills and Performance.
11. Disease Prevention.
12. Stress.
13. Addictive Behavior.
14. Sexual Health.
15. Lifetime Fitness and Wellness.
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Kelly Lane
Kelly Lane is an educator, program director and author with a strong background in physical activity and nutrition. Holding both a Master's and Bachelor's in Nutritional Sciences from San Diego State University, she has taught there since 2004, covering topics from exercise physiology to food chemistry and kinesiology. As the Director of Undergraduate Advising and Pre-Physical Therapy Program Coordinator for SDSU's School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences since 2014, Kelly guides students toward careers in health and fitness. A versatile content creator, she has developed general education science courses for the California State University system and collaborated on two widely adopted textbooks. Recently, she partnered with Cengage on "Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness." Known for her student-centered approach, Kelly’s classes are popular electives recognized for their engaging, practical content. Kelly’s dedication has earned her awards for advising and teaching excellence at SDSU. She is also a certified food safety instructor, training San Diego food handlers in best practices. Outside her career, Kelly is married with three sons and actively involved in her community as a Little League baseball coach, blending her professional expertise with a passion for teaching and mentorship.
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The new Your Fitness and Wellness Journey feature personalizes health goals through progressive self-assessment tools based on the transtheoretical model of change. Students evaluate current wellness habits with Location Check, reflect on potential lifestyle impacts with Preview Ahead and select strategies for improvement with Lane Change. Under the Hood offers insights into the science of fitness and wellness and FIT Stop fosters critical thinking and engagement with wellness facts. A universal chapter structure creates a cohesive and motivational path for students’ fitness journeys.
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A reinvigorated design provides a modern and visually stimulating layout featuring many new figures, graphs, informational boxes and photos in each chapter.
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All exercise prescription principles conform with the most up to date 2021 Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
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A new section on Physical Activity and Exercise for People with Disabilities provides valuable insights into working effectively with this client group.
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The new updates ensure alignment with the 2019 American Heart Association guidelines for proper blood pressure measurement, provide updated data on the substantial health benefits of strength training in reducing premature mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer, incorporate new research on the effectiveness of popular ultra-short workouts and emphasize the importance of increased daily mobility in preventing cardiovascular mortality, enhancing the overall relevance and depth of the content.
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Practical Problems: Critical Thinking features ask students to apply wellness concepts to issues they will face in their personal life or on the job and then challenges them to develop realistic solutions.
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Values Focus: Leveraging a focus on personal values, students are asked to create exercise plans around their needs and priorities when choosing exercise types, amounts and frequencies.
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Academic Fitness: Instructors can select among the largest variety of labs available in a fitness text, each with classroom or homework activities to complete with the text or online using the MindTap learning platform.
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