Fitness Cross Training

Fitness Cross-Training is an outstanding guide to total fitness, minus the boredom. The book features 60 color-coded workouts that allow the reader to mix and match six modes of exercise: running, cycling, swimming, weight training, aerobics, and walking. This unique handbook helps make training more effective and more fun. The variety of activities and multimode workout sessions are geared to meet the needs of people at all fitness levels, from beginners to advanced competitors. Yacenda even furnishes some great killer workouts for those seeking a real challenge. Part I provides a thorough background on the principles of cross-training. Readers will learn how to: get and stay motivated, make winning decisions about workouts and fitness, determine their overall fitness levels, switch easily from one activity to another during a workout, use correct exercise technique and form, and warm up, stretch, and cool down properly. Part II features complete descriptions of 60 cross-training workouts that vary in intensity, duration, and mode of exercise. The workouts are evenly distributed across six color-coded zones according to their level of difficultygreen workouts are the easiest, red workouts the hardest. The detailed description of each workout covers warm-up, training time, technique, difficulty, cool-down, calories burned, and workout tips. Sample programs in Part III spotlight structured workouts and ideas for combining a variety of exercises into an overall training program. Readers can adopt these programs as they are or tailor them to meet their needs. Yacenda also addresses important psychological and social elements of cross-training, providing motivational tips that ensure an enjoyable and winning approach to fitness. Fitness Cross-Training will inspire and challenge athletes at all levels to embrace cross-training as a way to make workouts more fun and achieve greater all-around fitness. About the Author John Yacenda is an accomplished athlete and educator. He has coached and taught many sports since 1975, including football, soccer, baseball, track and field, skiing, swimming, and snowboarding. Dr. Yacenda is the author of High Performance Skiing and Alpine Skiing, as well as more than 1,800 articles and columns on fitness-related topics. He has been a contributing editor for Let's Live magazine since 1984 and was a contributing editor for Fitness Management and Natural Life magazines for 5 years. He writes a weekly ski column that appears in newspapers in Colorado, Nevada, and California and throughout the Lake Tahoe area. In 1975, he earned his doctorate in health education and psychology from The Union Institute in Cincinnati. From 1971 to 1986, he taught health sciences at several California colleges and universities. Now he devotes more time to cross-training, competing in various sports, and writing about sports and cross-training. He is also the program manager of the HIV/AIDS Program Office

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