Concepts of Fitness and Wellness: A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach (11th ed.)
Concepts of Fitness and Wellness (11th ed.) is a college text to teach concepts and self-management skills that promote good fitness, health and wellness throughout life.
This evidence-based program includes 25 concepts, or chapters, each containing worksheets designed to help students master self-management skills such as self-assessment, goal setting, self-monitoring, time management, self-planning and personal portfolio creation. Topics of focus include adoption of health-enhancing active lifestyles (FITT Formula regular physical activity) that include participating in activities from five steps of the Physical Activity Pyramid, eating well, managing stress, avoiding destructive habits (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, drug abuse, STIs) and practicing other healthy lifestyle habits that lead to a long and productive life and prevent chronic diseases. The book is based on the HELP philosophy (Health for Everyone for Lifetime in a very Personal way) and uses the Stairway to Fitness, Health and Wellness to show students how to move from dependence to independent problem solving and decision making. The book has been in print since 1968.
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An ASU Professor Emeritus, Charles B. (Chuck) Corbin has more than 100 books and over 200 journal articles to his credit. He is an internationally recognized expert in physical activity, health and wellness whose honors include induction into the SHAPE America Hall of Fame and the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award.
An ASU doctoral graduate, Gregory J. Welk is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Iowa State University. An internationally recognized expert in physical activity promotion and assessment, Welk has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journals/books and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and of the National Kinesiology Association.
An ASU graduate and current professor of psychology at ASU, William R. Corbin is a nationally recognized expert in health psychology, published in the areas of behavioral medicine and addictive behaviors with particular expertise in high-risk behaviors. He is currently the director of clinical training at ASU.
