Fitness and Recreation

The book is loaded with more than 110 exercises targeting the core, upper body, lower body, and total body. Exercises feature a variety of variations and are supplemented with photos and concisely written exercise descriptions, making it easy to understand each exercise and implement it on your own. Did You Know? sidebars offer interesting details and tips about the use of dumbbell exercises.

The right balance of anatomy, physiology, and clinical coverage Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology helps students focus on the essentials without getting sidetracked in unnecessary details with brief and accessible text combined with short, easy-to-read chapters.

Functional Fitness contains exercises that focus on activities everyone needs to be healthy, fit, and successful in everyday life. Regardless of whether you are working out or are working as a personal trainer with busy executives, overweight clients, back pain patients, injured athletes, or simply people who want to function better in daily life, functional training helps you to handle daily tasks more easily and more simply.

In Plant-Based Sports Nutrition, registered dietitians Enette Larson-Meyer and Matt Ruscigno combine decades of evidence-based research with personal experience working with--and as--vegan and vegetarian athletes to offer you a reliable and complete explanation of how, when, and why you need to plan your nutrient intake to maximize nutrition and get the best results. They will help you make smart decisions about properly fueling your body so you have the energy and stamina to boost your training and excel during competition. Learn how to get proper amounts of all essential macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals, taking into account your personal caloric needs.