tailieunhanh - Applied Exercise Psychology: A Practitioner’s Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness

We are in trouble. The health of our country is being compromised due to a lifestyle of overeating and sedentary habits. Never before in our history has the health of so many individuals been put at risk due to the lethal combination of an inactive lifestyle and poor nutrition. It is now apparent that for the first time in . history, our children will lead a shorter, lower quality of life than their parents. The reason? We now live in what health practitioners call an “obesity epidemic.” About two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, costing billions of dollars for related health care treatment | Applied Exercise Psychology A Practitioner s Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness Applied Exercise Psychology A Practitioner s Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness Mark Anshel . is a Professor in the Department of Health Physical Education and Recreation at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro TN. Dr. An-shel has been a professor of sport and exercise psychology and a practicing performance consultant in the fields of sport and exercise for 24 years. In his earlier career he was a director of physical education in the community recreation field. His degrees are from Illinois State University . in physical education and graduate degrees in psychology of human performance from McGill University in Montreal . and Florida State University . . He has authored several books including Sport Psychology From Theory to Practice 2003 Concepts in Fitness A Balanced Approach to Good Health 2003 and Aerobics for Fitness 1998 . His numerous book chapters and research articles have covered topics such as coping with stress perfectionism and drug use in sports and strategies to promote exercise adherence. His current research concerns validating his Disconnected Values Model to improve exercise adherence. Dr. Anshel is a member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine American Psychological Association Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology and Stress and Anxiety Research .