Carol K. Armbruster, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the department of kinesiology in the School of Public Health at Indiana University (IU) at Bloomington. During her more than 35 years of teaching college students and training fitness leaders, she has served on the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and American Council on Exercise (ACE) credentialing committees, and she is a fellow of ACSM. She is also an ACSM-certified exercise physiologist, holds the level 2 Exercise Is Medicine credential, and has level 1 Functional Movement Screening certification.

Chapter 1. Staying Healthy and Well Throughout Life Staying Healthy Through the Lifespan New Perspectives on Wellness Components of Wellness What Are Functional Movement and Wellness? SummaryChapter 2. Functional Fitness and Movement Choices Understanding Physical Activity Recommendations Integrating Sedentarism, Physical Activity, and Exercise Fitting Movement Into Everyday Life SummaryChapter 3. Successfully Managing Healthy Behavior Change Are You Ready to Change? Personalizing the Behavior Change Process Goal Setting Revisited Safety First: Getting Started With a Personal Movement Program SummaryChapter 4. Cardiorespiratory Fitness Your Energy Needs: Supply and Demand Evaluating Your Cardiorespiratory Function Cardiorespiratory Fitness Benefits You Your Plan to Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness Safety First: Getting Started With Cardiorespiratory Fitness SummaryChapter 5. Muscular Fitness Your Body Was Designed to Move Key Definitions Assessing Muscle Capacity Muscular Fitness Benefits Your Daily Life Designing Your Program for Muscular Fitness Analyzing Your Fitness Choices Safety Issues SummaryChapter 6. Flexibility, Neuromotor Fitness, and Posture All About Flexibility Mind the Stretch Reflex! Neuromotor Exercise and Functional Fitness Physiological Teamwork for Flexibility and Neuromotor Fitness Preventing Low Back Pain SummaryFunctional Movement Training Calves Quads Hams and Glutes Abdominals Lower Back Hip Abductors Hip Adductors Chest and Front of Shoulder Upper Back and Shoulders Lats and Middle Back Front of Upper Arm Back of Upper ArmChapter 7. Body Composition Body Composition Basics Assessing Body Composition Weight Status, Body Composition, and Your Risk of Chronic Disease A Healthy Body Composition Benefits You—Today and in the Future! Your Program to Manage Body Composition SummaryChapter 8. Fundamentals of Healthy Eating Eating Well: Balanced and Clean The Many Benefits of a Healthy Diet Nutrition Recommendations and Resources SummaryChapter 9. Weight Management Weight Management: Our Greatest Modern Health Challenge Energy Balance Math Weight Management Strategies Daily Movement Is Essential to Weight Management Psychological Concerns Regarding Weight Management When Professional Help Is Needed SummaryChapter 10. Stress Management The Contemporary Stress Experience Common Stressors and Hassles of College Life Key Stress-Management Strategies Managing Stress Through Sleep Social, Stressed, and Sleepless SummaryChapter 11. Remaining Free From Addiction Types of Addictions What Is Substance Abuse Addiction? Psychoactive Drugs Alcohol Tobacco SummaryChapter 12. Sexuality and Health Sexuality as a Dimension of Health Reproductive System Contraception and Birth Control Methods Sexually Transmitted Infections Reducing the Risks Sexual Assault SummaryChapter 13. Reducing the Risks for Metabolic Syndrome Are You at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome? Evaluating Your Risk for Diabetes Mellitus Cardiovascular Disease: Our Number One Killer Prevention of CVD Starts Early in Life SummaryChapter 14. Reducing the Risks for Cancer The Nature of Cancer Who Gets Cancer? Detection, Staging, and Treatment of Cancer Causes of Cancer Most Commonly Diagnosed Cancers SummaryChapter 15. Fitness and Wellness: Today and Beyond Living Well Over the Life Span Differences Between Physiological and Chronological Age Approaches to Medicine Finding Resources to Enhance Your Fitness and Wellness Specific Wellness Concepts and SMART Goals Revisited Healthy People 2030 and Beyond Fitness and Wellness: A Way of Life

The physical and mental health concepts presented in Fitness and Wellness: A Way of Life will point readers toward a healthy lifestyle. The guidance on topics such as fitness, nutrition, weight management, stress management, and sexual health can lead students to a better quality of life.