Fit to be Well: Essential Concepts offers simple, workable approaches for being healthy and fit that can easily be added into your lifestyle and schedule. A healthy lifestyle incorporates all facets of fitness. The goal is to introduce simple ways to integrate each of these elements into your daily life. As you progress through the chapters you will find easy to follow guidelines for:

- Modifying your lifestyle behaviors
- Increasing your self-esteem and creating a more positive self-image
- Eating a balanced and nutritional diet
- Keeping your body composition and weight at a healthy level
- Improving physical endurance, strength, and flexibility
- Managing stress

Fit to be Well: Essential Concepts aims to increase your awareness of each aspect of a physically fit lifestyle. By adding self-assessments and related labs to each of the chapters, this text becomes an interactive guide to building and implementing a fitness program that will work with your individual needs and schedule.