The fourth edition of this best-selling textbook, presents a solid foundation of exercise physiology and redefines the discipline's standard for textbooks. The new edition offers an improved version of the comprehensive resource that frame the latest and most significant research findings in a reader-friendly format and makes it easier, and more exciting, than ever for students to learn. The text is accompanied by a range of bespoke ancillaries that make teaching the subject easier than ever before.

Wilmore (kinesiology and health education, emeritus, the University of Texas-Austin) introduces the fields of sport and exercise physiology in this text for undergraduates. For this fourth edition, the size of the book has been reduced through reductions in paper weight, font size, and page margins. Several chapters have been eliminated by combining material from other chapters. Sections cover exercising muscle, cardiovascular and respiratory function, exercise training (new to this edition), environmental influences on performance, optimizing performance in sport, age and sex considerations in sport and exercise, and physical activity for health and fitness. Learning features include color photos and detailed color medical illustrations, chapter outlines, within-text review boxes, end-of-chapter key terms, study questions, and links to activities in the text's companion web site. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)