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Mrs.Deock's
Selected Sites
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Mrs.
Deock has selected six web sites for you to use in your Personal Trainer
project. |
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This site
provides guidelines for healthy aerobic activity, calculates your exercise
heart rate range, and view a brochure about Careers in Sports Medicine
and Exercise Science . Use the links on the left to look at
Calculate
Your Heart Rate and Guideline for Aerobic Activity |
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What
is your heart rate? What are some basic exercises you can do? Do diets
work? What are some health issues you should know about? These and other
questions answered at this student developed Think Quest site. |
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A
"free calorie counter and calculator for the calorie content of foods." |
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Sponsored
by the American Heart Association, the Fitness Center lets you determine
activity profiles, browse nutrition and exercise recommendations, and maintain
an online exercise diary. |
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This
site is maintained by two personal trainers and contains articles on exercise,
diet and nutrition, child fitness, adventure, martial arts, and more. |
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Steven
B. Halls, M.D. offers two ways to calculate ideal weights for your client.
Enter your client's weight, height, age, and gender into the calculator.
Click the calculate button. Scroll down to the Peoples Choice and
Medical Recommendation results. |
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CNN.com's
Health Library provides information on both diet and exercise. Check out
the articles listed under Features. |
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Medical
Network, Inc., a health technology company based in Monmouth Junction,
New Jersey, provides offers a great deal of information on exercise and
nutrition in their Healthy Lifestyle section. |
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Information
on physical activity and diet and nutrition from the Executive Office of
the President and the Department of Health and Human Services. |
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The
Ontario Public Health Association site offers information for women who
want to improve their fitness and nutrition. It features a self assessment
test and basic plans for incorporating physical activity and healthy eating
into daily life. While this site is geared for women, the tip sheets and
progress monitoring chart are useful for any client, male or female |
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It's
always the right time to exercise! You don't need fancy equipment or expensive
sneakers. You don't need a ton of kids around. Sometimes you don't even
need to leave the house to get exercise. Learn how to get great exercise
- no matter what the weather's like or whoo's around! |
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The
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports promotes physical fitness
and active lifestyles for people of all ages. The site features information
about programs for youth and adults, activity logs, and activity ideas
and tools. There is a downloadable fitness handbook, and links to information
about physical fitness for people with disabilities. The site has separate
sections for kids, teens, adults, and senior citizens. |
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C.
Everett Koop, a former Surgeon General of the U.S. established this site
which focuses on decreasing obesity and stresses simple changes in diet
and exercise habits that easily acquired. The Cyberkitchen helps you balance
meals with physical activity. You can determine where your weight is by
getting your Body Mass Index at the BMI Center. Then you can go on to determine
your fitness level and suggested physical activities. |
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The
American Dietetic Association, the National Center for Nutrition, and the
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports present a brochure on
nutrition and fitness for kids from 9-15 years. |
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This
article on Yoga In The Office provides a description of "a series of simple
but effective suggested [yoga] positions to help stretch the wrists, neck,
shoulders, back and legs" that can be done outside of a yoga studio.
The article was written by a yoga instructor. |
