The Awesome Foursome: The Essential Components of Optimal Health & Total Fitness - Softcover

Schwartz, Irwin; Schwartz, David H., Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981693520 ISBN 13: 9780981693521

Verlag: Laurelton Media, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Forget the latest fad diet and exercise craze. In The Awesome Foursome, health and fitness expert Dr. Irwin Schwartz, Ed.D., gives you his comprehensive, straightforward and long-term strategies for incorporating the four key components of health and fitness into your lifestyle. * Abandon restrictive diets and adopt sensible, healthy eating habits.* Develop a more efficient cardiovascular system, and maintain or restore your youthful vigor.* Increase your muscle strength and tone, and improve your physique and performance in physical activities. * Enhance your flexibility to make bending, reaching and just moving around more fluid.The Awesome Foursome is perfect for beginners, trained athletes and everyone in between. You ll discover a simple and easy approach to providing your body with the nourishment it requires. You ll learn how to start an effective cardio workout or get the most out of your current cardio program. You ll find clear, step-by-step instructions for doing weight-training and stretching exercises safely and properly.Improve the quality of your life, prevent illness and live longer by embracing the essential components of health and fitness. The Awesome Foursome gives you the tools you need to look and feel your best.

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Dr. Irwin Schwartz, Ed.D., CSCS, is a health and fitness professional with more than thirty-five years of experience in the field. He created the curriculum for the Wellness and Physical Fitness course at Pace University (Pleasantville, NY) in 2000, and has been teaching the course since then. In 1999, Dr. Schwartz entered an Athletic Training Internship Program and completed more than 1,500 clinical hours in sports medicine. He worked with college athletes and was involved in the assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of their sports injuries. In 2000, he earned his Certification as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). In 2008, he became a professional member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). While working as a personal trainer and fitness consultant from 1982 to 2000, Dr. Schwartz wrote and produced two instructional videos and a manual on the safe and proper use of home weight-training equipment. From 1982 to 1991, Dr. Schwartz co-owned and operated Exercise Guidance Associates, Inc. in Chappaqua, NY, where he and his partner sold exercise equipment, designed total fitness programs for their clients, and supervised their workouts. Before joining the faculty at Pace, Dr. Schwartz had worked at Arturo Toscanini Community Junior High School 145 in the Bronx since 1968. He served as an assistant principal, health and physical education instructor, team leader, health coordinator and coach.Dr. Schwartz attained a Doctor of Education degree in 1976 from Fordham University. He earned a Master of Science in Health from Herbert H. Lehman College in 1970. In 1968, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education from Hunter College, where he minored in physiology and anatomy.Dr. Schwartz has expertise in the physiology of muscular activity, the physiology of exercise, physiology and anatomy, kinesiology, the efficiency of human movement, and sports medicine

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Laurelton Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0981693520
• ISBN 13: 9780981693521
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
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