This full-color, illustrated guide is perfect for getting people started on a fitness program and keeping them moving forward. The book covers nutrition, weight control, motivation, and overcoming setbacks, and it offers the tools readers need to develop an effective exercise program.

An active lifestyle; nutrition, physical activity and health; getting ready to exercise; assessing your fitness - the ACSM fitness test; beginning exercises; the ACSM fitness programme; staying active.

""""This book is full of good advice on the health benefits of regular physical activity. It provides information about specific exercises and activities, helps you increase your motivational readiness, and gives you the behavioral skills to become more active. Use this material to permanently increase your physical activity and reap the enormous health benefits that will result."""
Steven N. Blair, PED, FACSM
Former president American College of Sports Medicine
"From SJSports.com"
So if you are just getting started this is the book for you.
"From WomenRunners.com"
Bottom line: This book is geared to the new exerciser striving to reach a basic level of fitness..Good basic book for your library.
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