Provides consumer health information for teens about maintaining health through physical activity, including facts about preventing injury and overcoming obstacles to fitness. Includes index and resource information.

Health tips about healthy eating patterns, the components of a well-constructed diet, the importance of major food groups in maintaining good health, and foods that may need to be limited.

Consumer health information for teens about sports-related injury prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Includes index and resource information.

Consumer health information for teens about causes, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders, along with tips for healthy eating. Includes index and resource information.

A program that focuses attention on schoolwide wellness during four weeks of the school year. Helps schools incorporate coordinated activities that will enable them to meet national standards and guidelines for physical activity and nutrition.

Flexibility and balance are key qualities of a healthy body for athletes and non-athletes alike. This title examines the history of flexibility and stability and their applications to everyday life. It also offers how-to guides that will keep readers feeling strong, limber, and stable. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Celebrated trainer and the Today show fitness expert Kathy Kaehler is one of Hollywood's most sought-after fitness trainers. What Kathy has done for Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Drew Barrymore, Cindy Crawford, Alfre Woodard, Samuel L. Jackson, Penelope Ann Miller, and Claire Forlani, among many others, she will do for you. Teenage Fitness is your ultimate fitness source. Her mission is to keep you fit for life. Reflecting on her own body image and eating problems as a teenager, Kathy will show you how to have a healthy respect for your body. She offers essential fitness techniques necessary to look and feel your absolute best. You will learn: To appreciate your own beauty To change your mind-set To know and accept your body type Nineteen terrific eating tips to get you through your day What kind of eater you are The 90/10 principle of pigging out Creative Fitness Suburban Fitness Urban Fitness Five-minute and twenty-minute workouts With Kathy's straightforward and practical fitness principles, you'll feel terrific about your body, your looks, and your life.

ACSM's Essentials of Youth Fitness is the authoritative guide on motor skill development, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, and strength, power, speed and agility training for young athletes.

This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health. Using tried and tested therapeutic techniques, readers are given the tools to build their own personalised mental health 'workout' to boost their emotional resilience and wellbeing. Informed by the experiences of teens themselves, this friendly guide gives practical tips and strategies on how to overcome everyday stresses and ditch negative thinking 'frenemies' before they develop into more serious issues. Teens will be better equipped to recognise negative thoughts and emotions, monitor their mood and behaviour, and flex their positive thinking muscles in order to combat the mental health blips we all face sometimes.

Fitness Information for Teens, Fifth Edition provides information on the key components of fitness, facts about physical activity among teens, and the significance of sleep and healthy nutrition. This also consists of a fitness plan and exercise fundamentals such as martial arts, combined exercise, cardiovascular exercise to maintain a healthy weight, various activities for teens involved in the team and as an individual, along with sports fitness safety and overcoming obstacles to physical fitness. The book concludes with a glossary of terms related to fitness and a directory of organizations with information on specific sports and activities.