Endurance Fitness (2nd edition) / / Roy J. Shephard.

Endurance Fitness provides detailed coverage of the scientific principles on which the general theories of physical fitness are based. It treats the subject from a sound physiological and medical point of view, and provides a careful synthesis of knowledge in this complex area. This second edition h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1969
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to first edition
  • Preface to second edition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Development of current concepts of fitness
  • 3. Physiological determinants of endurance fitness
  • 4. Methodology of fitness tests
  • 5. Current levels of fitness
  • 6. Modifications of fitness
  • 7. Current activity patterns and attitudes
  • 8. Fitness and health
  • 9. Nutrition and fitness
  • 10. Endurance fitness and the body musculature
  • 11. The use of drugs and related procedures
  • 12. A financial postscript
  • Glossary of symbols and abbreviations
  • References
  • Index