Hp 200

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The overall condition of body or mind and the presence or absence of illness or injury

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Health

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Optimal health and vitality, encompassing the six dimensions of well-being

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Wellness

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A condition that increases one's chances of disease or injury

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Risk Factor

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A disease that can spread from person to person; caused by microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses

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Infectious Disease

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A disease that develops and continues over a long period of time, such as heart disease or cancer

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Chronic Disease

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A conscious behavior that can increase of decrease a person's risk of disease or injury; such behaviors include smoking, exercising, eating a healthy diet, and others

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Lifestyle Choice

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A set of physical attributes that allow the body to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort

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Physical Fitness

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Physically inactive; literally, "sitting."

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Sedentary

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An injury that occurs without harm being intended

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Unintentional Injury

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A lifestyle management process that involves cultivating healthy behaviors and working to overcome unhealthy ones

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Behavior Change

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An isolated behavior selected as the object for a behavior change program

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Target Behavior

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The belief in one's ability to take action and perform a specific task

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Self-Efficacy

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The figurative "place" a person designates as the source of responsibility for the events in his or her life

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Locus of Control

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Physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, spiritual, environment

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Six Dimensions of Wellness

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Developing meaningful relationships, planing for successful aging, learning about the health care system, acting responsibly toward the environment

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Steps Towards Wellness

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Forgive yourself, give yourself credit for the progress you already made, move on

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Steps to Dealing with Relapse

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Monitor your behavior and gather results, analyze the data and identity patterns, be SMART about setting goals, devise a plan of action, and make a personal contract

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Steps to Creating a Personal Plan

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Any body movement carried out by the skeletal muscles and requiring energy

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Physical Activity

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Planned, structured, repetitive movement of the body intended to improve or maintain physical fitness

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Exercise

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Physical capacities that contribute to health; cardiorespiratory, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibilty, and body composition

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Health-Related Fitness

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The ability of the body to perform prolonged, large-muscle, dynamic exercise at moderate-to-high levels of intensity

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Cardiorespiratory Endurance

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The amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort

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Muscular Strength

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The sum of all the vital processes by which food energy and nutrients are made available to and used by the body

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Metabolism

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The ability of a muscle to remain contracted or to contract repeatedly for a long period of time

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Flexibility

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The proportion of fat and fat-free mass (muscle, bone, water) in the body

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Body Composition

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The nonfat component of the human body, consisting of skeletal muscle, bone, and water

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Fat-Free mass

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Physical capacities that contribute to performance in a sport or activity: speed, power, agility, balance, coordination, and reaction time

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Skill-Related Fitness

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The performance of different types of activities that cause the body to adapt and improve its level of fitness

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Physical Training

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The training principle that the body adapts to the particular type and amount of stress placed on it

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Specificity

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The training principle that placing increasing amounts of stress on the body causes adaptations that improve fitness

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Progressive Overload

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The training principle that fitness improvements are lost when demands on the body are lowered

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Reversibility

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A test usually administered on a treadmill or cycle ergometer that involves analysis of the changes in electrical activity in the heart from an EKG or ECG taken during exercise; used to determine if any disease is present and to assess current fitness level

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Exercise Stress Test

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An exercise test that starts at an easy intensity and progresses to maximum capacity

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Graded Exercise Test

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A condition caused by training too much or too intensely, characterized by lack of energy, decreased physical performance, fatigue, depression, aching muscles and joints, and susceptibility to injury

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Overtraining

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The heart pumps more blood per heartbeat, resting heart rate slows, blood volume increases, blood supply to tissues improves, the body can cool itself better, and resting blood pressure decreases

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Physical Functions Improved by Cardiorespiratory Fitness

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Frequency, intensity, time, type

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FITT Principle