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Regular cardio-respiratory exercise coupled with healthy nutrition will help keep the heart fit and in good working order. This manual contains information and advice on how to improve and maintain a good level of aerobic endurance. It also analyses the importance of how healthy eating impacts on the body during exercise.

How to keep a fit and healthy heart (and control your weight), is part of a series written by Chic Carvell called Fitness Matters. In a series of 10 Chapters it covers:

1. An introduction to cardio-respiratory fitness

2. How the blood flows through the heart

3. Effects of exercise and training on the heart

4. Improving aerobic capacity

5. Effects of exercise and training on the heart

6. How to monitor heart rate

7. Heart rate response to different intensities of work

8. Choosing cardio-respiratory exercise

9. Nutrition for a healthy heart and weight control

10 Summaries the 9 previous chapters and suggests an action plan.

The book is clear and precisely written and illustrates the messages with clear diagrams, illustrations and tables.

Key Features:

• Introduction - Cardio-respiratory Fitness
• Effects of Exercise and Training on the Heart
• Improving Aerobic Capacity
• How to Monitor Heart Rate
• Choosing Cardio-respiratory Exercise
• Food for a Healthy Heart and Weight Control

Box Includes:

• Book: How to keep a fit and healthy heart

Technical Specification:

• Pages : 38
• Spiral bound
• Printed on : Gloss Card