 Textbook
Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human
Performance
[5th Edition]
McArdle/Katch/Katch
The classic text students and educators have relied on through four
editions has been fully rewritten, updated, and augmented for this
fifth edition. Emphasizing nutrition and the use of energy system during
training, previous editions of this peerless text have met an entire
generations's needs for excellent coverage of exercise physiology,
uniting the topics of physical conditioning, sports nutrition, body
composition, and weight control.
The fifth
edition has exceptional full color illustrations, and new, improved
art in every chapter. Concepts are illustrated in crisp, colorful
charts and graphs. It is a highly visual text geared to how today's
students learn best. "Focus on Research" sections introducing
each chapter with synopses of actual published experiements and studies
from respected scholars in the field, which demonstrate principles
of the text in the context of "real world" clinical physiology,
nutrition, and exercise science.
One new
chapter has been added; Chapter 27 Microgravity: The Last Frontier;
in addition, for the first time in an exericse physiology text, comprehensive
content has been added on the exciting and challening area of Molecular
Biology- A new Vista for Exericse Physiology.
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