Fitness for Life is a comprehensive program designed to help middle and high school students take responsibility for their own activity, fitness, and health and to prepare them to be physically active and healthy throughout their adult lives.
This program includes the nation's first personal fitness textbook for teens, now in its updated Fifth Edition, and the new textbook for middle school students, available in early March 2007. Both textbooks include integrated teacher and student resources, including Web support and additional supporting technology. Fitness for Life is also fully integrated with Physical Best and FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM. Both the middle and high school Fitness for Life programs are designed to be integrated with other physical education activities to create a quality comprehensive physical education program.
The middle school and high school versions of Fitness for Life share the same HELP philosophy, which is also used as the basis for the FITNESSGRAM and Physical Best programs. In accordance with this philosophy, Fitness for Life is designed to:
- help students learn about Health-related physical fitness and the benefits of healthy lifestyles, including participation in regular physical activity and sound nutrition;
- involve Everyone, not just students who have special physical talents;
- feature activities that can be used for a Lifetime, including those that get students active now, both in and out of school; and
- help students find activities and plan activity programs that are Personal and appropriate to their individual needs.
Both the middle and high school programs are pedagogically sound and were built on educational standards recommended by NASPE, as well as standards that integrate the text with other subject matter areas. Vocabulary is emphasized, and definitions are available in a glossary and online. The main strand focuses on physical activity and the benefits that accompany regular participation. Students also learn skill concepts that can be applied in all physical education and instructional settings. A PDF of the Fitness for Life brochure is available.
For more information on the Fitness for Life high school program, please click on the high school book, below left.
For more information on the Fitness for Life middle school program, please click on the middle school book, below right.
For a better understanding of how the middle school and high school programs work together, please read through the Fitness for Life articulation document. To access this PDF document, click here.
