# Fit Happens: Essential Principles of Fitness, Wellness, and Health

- By: Danielle Altman, Rusty Johnson, and Cheryl Owiesny
- Publisher: De Anza College
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/De_Anza_College/Fit_Happens%3A_Essential_Principles_of_Fitness_Wellness_and_Health)
- Licence: not stated by the source
- Read at LibreTexts: https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/De_Anza_College/Fit_Happens%3A_Essential_Principles_of_Fitness_Wellness_and_Health
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/med-96972/pdf

A comprehensive introductory kinesiology textbook designed for activity-based fitness classes. Covers wellness, physical fitness principles, cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, mobility, low-back health, and body composition. Includes practical guidance on program design, nutrition, and weight management, plus health topics like stress, sleep, mental health, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, immunity, disease prevention, and substance use and misuse