Understanding your Health and Fitness

About the Book

This book, with two parts and eleven chapters, is timely and falls within Canada’s national health goals relating on health and fitness. Years of poor lifestyle can often result in a variety of health-related problems, such as orthopedic, diabetic conditions and other metabolic disorders, which lead to the deterioration of our health and functional ability, leading to our poor quality of life. This book provides critical information on health and fitness not only for trainers to amplify their confidence and practical strategies towards their teaching skills but also to outline some key health issues for the general and aging population and outline how to improve their health and the fitness they deserve.

About the Author

Dr. Salem Rao is an internationally renowned environmental scientist, with a career spanning twenty-three years. He is the recipient of numerous awards. In 2006, at the age of seventy-one, he became a certified personal trainer and later became a pro trainer with one of the largest fitness organizations, Canfitpro, administering courses and exams for prospective trainers. In this short time, he has been recognized for his abilities and accomplishments. Canfitpro awarded him the Rookie of the Year Pro Trainer Award in 2008. He was also nominated for the Participant Choice Award for the year 2011, and he won this award in 2012. At the age of eighty-two years, he is truly an inspiration to all aspiring fitness.