Overview

The third edition of Fitness and Lifestyle Management for Law Enforcement continues to provide law enforcement students with the information they need to take responsibility for their personal health and fitness, and to help them prepare for PREP, PARE, and COPAT testing. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the planning, goal-setting, and preventative actions needed to offset long-term effects of poor fitness and wellness practices. This edition provides expanded coverage of nutritional issues, a new chapter on the growing concern of diabetes, chapter-specific appendixes explaining difficult terms, and diagrams illustrating organs, systems, and conditions. Updated references, additional review questions, and an expanded glossary are included.

Features

• Provides clear learning objectives that match the learning outcomes of the Police Foundations and LASA fitness and lifestyle management four-semester course
• Addresses the physical demands of the job leading to Bona Fide Occupational Requirements (BFOR) testing, which assesses the minimum physical requirements for officers
• Prepares students for PREP and PARE testing
• Introduces issues and concepts of crucial importance to law enforcement personnel, including wellness and physical fitness, time management, nutrition, hypokinetic diseases (such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease), back pain, stress, shift work, and common injuries
• Emphasizes the importance of the planning, goal-setting, and preventive actions needed to offset long-term effects of poor fitness and wellness practices
• Provides expanded coverage of nutrition (including the new Canada Food Guide), a new chapter on diabetes, new end-of-chapter questions, updated references, improved illustrations to help explain some of the topics, and an expanded glossary
• Includes chapter-specific appendixes explaining difficult terms, and diagrams of organs, systems, and conditions
• Includes a weight-training program with illustrative photos at www.emp.ca/fitness
• Instructor's Resources
  • Includes instructor's guide, test bank and PowerPoint presentation

TopContent Summary

Part I: Getting Started Toward a Healthy Lifestyle

• Chapter 1: Wellness and Active Living: A Healthy Lifestyle
• Chapter 2: Goal Setting
• Chapter 3: Time Management

Part II: Planning and Maintaining a Fitness Program

• Chapter 4: Physical Fitness
• Chapter 5: Cardio-Respiratory Fitness
• Chapter 6: Strength and Endurance Training
• Chapter 7: Flexibility and Stretching

Part III: Nutrition and Body Composition

• Chapter 8: Nutrition
• Chapter 9: Body Composition

Part IV: Understanding and Managing Potential Health Problems

• Chapter 10: Cardiovascular Disease
• Chapter 11: Back Pain
• Chapter 12: Stress
• Chapter 13: Shift Work
• Chapter 14: Common Injuries

Part V: Preparing to Meet Law Enforcement Fitness Standards

• Chapter 15: Preparing to Meet Law Enforcement Fitness Standards