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First Steps, Your Active Living Journal - Active Living Partners
First Steps
Your Healthy Living Journal
by Active Living Partners
NEW, 168 pages
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About First Steps
Do you want to eat better and become more active but are unsure about where to even begin? Then get on the path to lasting lifestyle change with First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal, the one tool you need in order to overcome bad habits permanently and shape the healthy life you want.
Both a journal and guidebook, First Steps presents a simple, four-step process to improving your health habits:
- Build awareness of your starting point, desired results, and obstacles.
- Create solutions to your barriers to healthy living.
- Boost your confidence in order to achieve your goals.
- Sustain commitment to your new healthy lifestyle.
First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal allows you to track your progress according to your goals, preferences, and fitness level, and it is based on the life-changing principles of Active Living Partners. Active Living Partners programs are offered in hospitals, fitness centers, worksites, colleges, and communities in the United States and abroad.
About Active Living Partners
Active Living Partners, a division of Human Kinetics, produces educational programs and tools that address physical inactivity and unbalanced eating—two leading causes of obesity, heart disease, and other chronic ailments. These programs, Active Living Every Day and Healthy Eating Every Day, have been successfully implemented worldwide in worksites, hospitals, community health programs, senior residences, colleges and universities, and fitness centers, as well as by individuals.
The success of Active Living programs in empowering people to permanently change their health habits can be traced to the following features:
-Focus on behavioral change. The underlying causes of poor health habits are addressed with an emphasis on lifestyle-management skills and realistically paced change.
-Scientific basis. Developed in partnership with The Cooper Institute, Active Living programs use curriculums that have been proven effective in clinical trials.
-Personalized approach. Programs may be tailored to each person's stage of readiness to change, lifestyle, and personal preferences.
-Flexible delivery options. Courses may be delivered in groups, online, or via phone or face-to-face coaching.
About Fitness
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations). Physical fitness is generally achieved through exercise.
In previous years, fitness was commonly defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, as automation increased leisure time, changes in lifestyles following the industrial revolution rendered this definition insufficient. These days, physical fitness is considered a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.
Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image Childhood obesity is a growing global concern and physical exercise may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity in developed countries.
Types of exercise: exercises are generally grouped into three types depending on the overall effect they have on the human body. Flexibility exercises, such as stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints. Aerobic exercises, such as cycling, swimming, walking, skipping rope, running, hiking or playing tennis, focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance. Anaerobic exercises, such as weight training, functional training or sprinting, increase short-term muscle strength.
First Steps
Your Healthy Living Journal
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