Essentials of Exercise Physiology offers a compact version of the Seventh Edition of the bestselling Exercise Physiology: Nutrition, Energy, and Human Performance, making it ideal for introductory undergraduate courses. As you progress through the text, you'll develop a deep understanding of the interrelationships among energy intake, energy transfer during exercise, and the physiologic systems that support energy transfer. Moreover, you'll discover how to apply what you learn to enhance exercise training, athletic performance, and health. Based on feedback from students and instructors, this Fourth Edition offers new organization, content, and features while maintaining its hallmark pedagogy, writing style, graphics, and flow charts. The new organization makes it easier to cover the text in a one-semester course and adapt materials to diverse interests. Plus, each section has undergone a major revision, offering you coverage of new and emerging topics in exercise physiology as well as the latest research findings.

Section I: Introduction to Exercise Physiology
Chapter 1: Origins of Exercise Physiology: Foundations for the Field of Study

Section II: Nutrition and Energy
Chapter 2: Macronutrients and Micronutrients
Chapter 3: Food Energy and Optimum Nutrition for Exercise
Chapter 4: Nutritional (and Pharmacologic) Aids to Performance

Section III: Energy Transfer
Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Human Energy Transfer
Chapter 6: Human Energy Transfer During Exercise
Chapter 7: Measuring and Evaluating Human Energy-Generating Capacities During Exercise
Chapter 8: Energy Expenditure During Rest and Physical Activity

Section IV: The Physiologic Support Systems
Chapter 9: The Pulmonary System and Exercise
Chapter 10: The Cardiovascular System and Exercise
Chapter 11: The Neuromuscular System and Exercise
Chapter 12: Hormones, Exercise, and Training

Section V: Exercise Training and Adaptations
Chapter 13: Training the Anaerobic and Aerobic Energy Systems
Chapter 14: Training Muscles to Become Stronger
Chapter 15: Factors Affecting Physiologic Function: The Environment and Special Aids to Performance

Section VI: Optimizing Body Composition, Successful Aging, and Health-Related Exercise Benefits
Chapter 16: Body Composition, Obesity, and Weight Control
Chapter 17: Physical Activity, Exercise, Successful Aging, and Disease Prevention
Chapter 18: Clinical Aspects of Exercise Physiology

Appendix A: The Metric System and Conversion Constantsin Exercise Physiology
Appendix B: Metabolic Computations in Open-Circuit Spirometry
Appendix C: Evaluation of Body Composition: Girth Method
Appendix D: Evaluation of Body Composition: Skinfold Method

Index