Publisher's Synopsis
Anybody's Guide to Total Fitness, 12th edition, is a definitive blend of cutting-edge scientific research and reliable practical applications for creating an optimal health, fitness and wellness lifestyle. The text offers personalized instruction on how to customize exercise programs for high intensity interval training (HIIT), indoor cycling, aerobic kickboxing, circuit training, boot camp programs, and aquatic workouts. The 12th edition introduces the original science-based Peripheral Heart Action (PHA) training method and 2 PHA workouts. The online profile guide that accompanies the text is a behavioral modification planner and assessment supplement that promotes positive, self-directed goal attainment.Anybody's Guide to Total Fitness:Includes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Updated Physical Activity Guidelines.Recaps the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association revised blood pressure guidelines.Integrates the 'inch by inch, it's a cinch' small-changes approach to weight management success Summarizes the lifestyle practices of the real life ""Biggest Losers"".Features 12 fabulous HIIT workouts.Showcases over 125 biomechanically correct exercise photographs.Offers credible and insightful answers to 100 frequently asked questions on health, nutrition, weight management, exercise and disease.Presents the highly effective biomotor functional power exercises.Offers evidence-based tips how to overcome exercise 'speed bumps'.Launches a brand-new section on overcoming sedentary behavior.Explains the 'body check' system of self-monitoring your exercising body.
