Chap. 4, Lesson 1 - Activity For Life

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Physical activity

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Any form of movement that causes your body to use energy.

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Physical Fitness

Back 2

ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough energy to respond to unexpected demands.

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Physical activity provides benefits that last a lifetime.

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3 parts of your health triangle:

- Physical
- Mental/Emotional
- Social

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Benefits to physical health:

- Makes your body stronger
- Reduces fatigue
- Improve motor responses
- Increases energy
- Strengthens muscle and bones
- Reduce risk of serious disease

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Cardiovascular - Regular physical activity strengthens the heart muscle (pumps blood better.)

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Respiratory - can breathe larger amounts of air and muscles used in respiration don't tire as easily.

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Benefits to Mental/Emotional Health:

- Stretching exercises before bed
- Can help you look and feel better; increase self confidence.
- Have a "can do" spirit
- Sense of pride and accomplishment

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Benefits to Social Health:

- Participating in fitness regiments w/ friends can motivate you to stick to the program.

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Can motivate your friends.

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Helps manage stress; can help w/ relationship w/ others.

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Gives opportunity to interact and cooperate w/ others.

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Risks of physical inactivity:

- Sedentary Lifestyle - Lifestyle w/ little or no physical activity.

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Negative Effects of a Sedentary Lifestyle:

- Unhealthy Weight gain ~ Linked to Cardiovascular disease.

- Type 2 diabetes

- Cancer

- Osteoporosis

- Reduced ability to manage stress.

- Decreased opportunity to meet and form friendships w/ active people who value and live a healthy lifestyle.

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Physical Activity and Weight control:

- 1/2 of Adults and 14% teens are overweight.

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Happens because of a sedentary lifestyle and overeating.

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Metabolism:

- Process which your body gets energy from food.

- Calories - food's energy value.

- Need a sufficient amount of calories each day to function properly.

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Additional calories must be burned through physical activity or they will be stored in the body as fat.

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Fitting physical activity through your life:

- Health professionals recommend that teens should get 60 min. of physical activity into their daily lives.

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Activities that get you moving count toward your daily total.

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When physically active metabolism rate rises, your body burns more calories than when at rest.

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Nature of the activity will determine how many calories are burned.

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Several hrs. after the activity, your body continues to burn calories than you did before you began the activity.

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END OF CHAP. 4, LESSON 1!!!