Health Chapter 4

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Physical activity

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Any format of movement that causes your body to use energy

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Physical fitness

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

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Sedentary lifestyle

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A way of life that requires little physical activity

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Osteoporosis

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A condition characterized by a decrease in bone density, producing porous and fragile bones

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Metabolism

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The process by which your body gets energy from food

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Cardiorespiratory endurance

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The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to utilize and send fuel and oxygen to the body's tissues during long periods of moderate to vigorous activity

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Muscular strength

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The amount of force a muscle can exert

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Muscular endurance

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The ability of the muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without being fatigued.

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Flexibility

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The ability to move a body part through the full range of motion

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Body composition

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The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including muscle, bone, water, and connective tissue such as ligaments, cartilage, and tendons

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Aerobic Exercise

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Any activity that uses large muscle groups, is rhythmic in nature, and can be maintained continuously for at least ten minutes a day or for 20 to 30 minutes at one time

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Exercise

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Purposeful physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive and that improves or maintains personal health

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Anaerobic exercise

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Intense short bursts of activity in which the muscles work so hard that they produce energy with out using oxygen

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Overload

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Working the body harder than it is normally worked

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Progreesion

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The gradual increase in overload necessary to achieve higher levels of fitness

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Specificity

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Particular exercises and activities improve particular areas or health related fitness

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Warm up

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An activity that prepares the muscles for work

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Workout

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The part of an exercise program when the activity is performed at its highest peak

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F.I.T.T

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Frequency, intensity, time/duration,and type of activity

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Cool down

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An activity that prepares the muscles to return to a resting state

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Resting heart rate

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Number of times your heart beats in one minute when you are not active

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Training program

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A program of formulized physical preparation for involvement in a sport or another physical activity

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Hydration

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Taking in fluids so the body functions properly

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Anabolic steroids

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Synthetic substances that are similar to the male hormone testosterone

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Health screening

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A search or check for diseases or disorders that an individual would otherwise not have knowledge of or seek help for

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Over exertion

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Over working the body

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Heat cramps

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Muscle spasms that result from a loss of large amounts of salt and water through perspiration

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Heat stroke

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A condition in which the the body loses the ability to rid it's self of excessive heat through perspiration

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Frostbite

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A condition that results when body tissues become frozen

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Hypothermia

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A condition in which the body temperature becomes dangerously low

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Muscle cramp

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A spasm or sudden tightening of a muscle

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Strain

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An injury to the ligament surrounding a joint