Fitness for Dummies
Chapter One
Fitness 101: Getting the Scoop
In This Chapter
* Getting ready for your first fitness test
* Deciding among your many choices of exercise routines
* Stretching well and eating right
* Working out while pregnant, in childhood, and into your senior years
If you're reading this chapter, you've decided to get fit. (Or, like wannabe
home remodelers who do nothing more than sit on the couch watching
Home Time or This Old House, you're pretending to get fit by reading this
book!) While transforming yourself from couch potato to buff hottie doesn't
take a Ph.D. in physiology or kinesiology, you do need to follow a few rules of
the road.
This chapter outlines the very basics of getting fit. If you want to find out
more, each section tells you which chapters to read for all the juicy details.
Yes, This Class Has Tests
In order to best determine how to reach your fitness goals, you first need to
figure out where you are, physically. And the best way to do this is to sign up
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