Product Description: Men and women of the boomer generation now have a book about exercise catered to their specific needs and circumstances. A recent New York Times article on the elderly and exercise proclaims, Encouraged by doctors to continue to exercise three to five times a week for their health, a legion of running, swimming and biking elders are flouting the conventional limits of the middle-aged body's abilities, and filling the nation's operating rooms and orthopedists' offices in the process...read more

First edition. Sports psychology for athletic trainers, physical therapists, psychological consultants, coaches, physicians, and athletes.

Product Description: Though exercise is relatively easy to do, its influence on our physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being is complex. Even those who are aware of its positive effects are sometimes reluctant to begin. Why do some people maintain a regular exercise regimen while others quit after a few weeks? How does exercise influence mental health? If medical, health, fitness, psychology, and athletic professionals are to help their clients, they must understand the issues that surround the psychology of exercise...read more

Product Description: This text in sport behaviour looks at the reasons for behaviour, rather than how to change it. The book examines the concept of wellness and its relation to physical fitness. It also considers the disabled or injured athlete, abhorant behaviour in sport, and moral development and aggression...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains the link between wellness and exercise, and shows how to plan an individualized fitness program.