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Overview

MyFitnessLab™ is a course management resource loaded with valuable teaching resources that make giving assignments and tracking student progress easy. Powered by CourseCompass™, the preloaded content in MyFitnessLab™ includes everything you need to enhance your traditional course or to create an effective hybrid or online course.

Students can access the preloaded MyFitnessLab™ resources in the Chapter Contents area. These unsurpassed resources are organized into six categories to guide students logically and efficiently through every chapter: HEAR IT,, READ IT, SEE IT, DO IT, REVIEW IT, and LIVE IT.


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HEAR IT

Students can listen to audio/visual lectures presentations, ranging between one and two minutes each, on tough topics for every chapter. These PowerPoint® presentations provide a narrated tour by author Tanya Litrell with text and images. The audio/visual lectures are an ideal review tool for students after lectures or before quizzes and exams.



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READ IT

Students can no longer say they forgot their text at home. Students can access the text through MyFitnessLab™ whenever and wherever they have access to the Internet. myeBook pages look exactly like the printed text, offering powerful new functionality for students and instructors. Users can create notes, highlight text in different colors, create bookmarks, zoom, click hyperlinked words and phrases to view definitions, and view in single-page or two-page view. myeBook also links students to associated media files, enabling them to view a video as they read the text. In addition, myeBook offers a full-text search and the ability to save and export notes.


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SEE IT

Students get the visual aids they need and want with Exercise Videos and ABC News Lecture Launcher Video Clips.


Exercise Videos

Ensuring your students engage in life long behavior change has never been easier with the Exercise Videos on MyFitnessLab™. Our new collection of over 80 exercise videos demonstrates strength training and flexibility exercises with resistance bands, stability balls, and gym equipment. Your students can also download the Exercise Videos to use on their iPods, allowing them to utilize these videos while exercising at home or the gym.



Resistance Band Exercises > Shoulder Press
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ABC News Lecture Launcher Videos Clips

Fitness and wellness topics come alive with 24 ABC News Lecture Launcher video clips, created in partnership between ABC News and Pearson. Featuring a series of topics from nutrition and stress management to substance abuse, these videos help stimulate student learning and show relevance to the real world



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DO IT

Get your students to apply the fitness and wellness topics directly to their own health and lives with a rich resource of electronic labs, assessments, behavior change contracts and logs, and journaling tools.

Over 55 labs are available online to students, allowing them to assess their level of fitness/wellness, learn core skills, and develop behavior change plans to track their progress. MyFitnessLab™ also includes labs designed and adapted for students with varying levels of fitness, varying levels of access to equipment, and those with disabilities. Students can easily fill out the labs and email them to you directlyÑno paper involved. In addition to all of the labs, students have access to:


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REVIEW IT

Do your students need extra study material that can be accessed from their computer, or even from their mobile phone? Studying for a quiz or an exam has become easy for your students with MyFitnessLab™.

  • Practice quizzes consist of instantly graded multiple-choice and true/false quizzes in every chapter, allowing students to check their understanding of the information in the textbook.
  • The online glossary allows students to quickly and easily look up definitions for the terms they don't know.
  • The interactive flashcard feature allows students to build a deck of flashcards from the key terms in every chapter, review them online, print them, and export them to their mobile phones!

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LIVE IT

Looking for ways to get students to take the material they learn in class and apply it to their own lives? With MyFitnessLab™:

  • Students get access to the online version of the Changing Behavior section of the Behavior Change Log Book and Wellness Journal to help them modify problem behaviors.
  • Students get useful tips for coping with a variety of life's challenges that they may find stressful or occur as a result of too much stress in the online version of Live Right!
  • Students get practical guidelines, tips, shopper's guides, and recipes so they can start putting healthy guidelines into action today in the online version of Eat Right!

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Assessment

With nearly 2,000 assessment questions, instructors can give their students the practice they need with assignable quiz and test questions written for the textbook, preloaded and ready to use in the Assessment/Test Manager, accessible from the Control Panel. Instructors can modify these questions and create their own questions.



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Course Management

MyFitnessLab™ is making teaching fitness and wellness online easier! Instructors can lessen their prep time and simplify their lives with preloaded quiz and test questions (specific to the textbook) that they can assign and/or edit, a gradebook that automatically records student results from assigned tests, and the ability to customize the course as much (or as little) as desired-all through the easy-to-navigate Control Panel.



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