Fitness for Life - Tapa dura

This best-selling text on health-related fitness is now fully updated with an increased emphasis on personal responsibility for programme planning, overcoming barriers and technology. This text is also supported by a comprehensive new set of support materials, including detailed lesson plans, ready-to-use assessments and teacher resources, videos, music, graphics packages and more. This physical education text makes it easy to teach relevant information that will have a lasting impact on students' long-term health. With Fitness for Life 5th Edition, you can motivate students to: learn lifelong fitness concepts, do self-directed fitness activities, create individualised fitness programmes.

Charles B. Corbin, PhD, is a professor in the department of exercise and wellness at Arizona State University, a curriculum consultant to multiple school districts and co-editor of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest. Corbin has dedicated his life to promoting fitness and physical activity for people of all ages, with a special emphasis on youth. Respected by teachers, scholars and researchers alike, he was named an Alliance Scholar by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Ruth Lindsey, PhD, is a professor emeritus at California State University at Long Beach and a recognised leader in physical activity and fitness with special expertise in biomechanics, kinesiology, questionable exercises, nutrition and physical activity for senior adults.