Personal wellness in New York with Martin Thuna

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Personal Wellness in New York with Martin Thuna
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When it involves personal wellness there are
several ways to form sure you're healthy and well
taken care of. According to Martin Thuna, you can
take care of yourself both mentally and
physically are the 2 main areas to specialize
in.  If you're not paying enough time and focus
on your emotional and mental needs you'll be able
to then become depressed and develop other mental
and physical ailments as a repercussion.
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Health

• Traditional view absence of disease, pain or
  disability
• Contemporary view (WHO) achievement of
• Physical well-being
• Mental well-being
• Social well-being

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Wellness

• The constant and deliberate effort to stay
  healthy and achieve the highest potential for
  well-being.
• Living a lifestyle that optimizes all aspects of
  health.

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Benefits of a Wellness Lifestyle

• To the Nation
• Reduction in health care costs
• Maintenance of productive work force
• To the individual
• Reduced health care costs
• Increased longevity
• Increased quality of life

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Healthy life 65.4 years
Impaired life 11.5 years
Life expectancy 76.9 years
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Factors Affecting Health
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Is Change Necessary?

• In order to adopt a wellness lifestyle, most
  individuals have to change a number of behaviors.
• Changing behaviors is the most difficult aspect
  of living a wellness lifestyle.
• The barriers to change must be overcome.

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Common Barriers to Change

• Procrastination
• Preconditioned cultural beliefs
• Gratification
• Risk complacency
• Complexity
• Indifference and Helplessness
• Rationalization
• Invincibility

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Transtheoretical Model of Change

• Pre-contemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation
• Action
• Maintenance
• Termination

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Model of progression and relapse.
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Goal Setting

• Well planned
• Personalized
• Written
• Realistic
• Short/Long-term

• Measurable
• Time-specific
• Monitored
• Evaluate Modify

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Physical Activity vs Exercise

• Physical Activity bodily movement produced by
  skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure
  and produces progressive health benefits
• Exercise a type of physical activity that is
  planned and structured with the intent of
  improving or maintaining physical fitness.

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Surgeons Generals Report on Physical Activity
and Health

• People who are usually inactive can improve their
  health and wellness by becoming even moderately
  active on a regular basis
• Physical activity need not be strenuous to
  achieve health benefits
• Greater health benefits can be achieved by
  increasing the amount of physical activity

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Fitness vs Health

• To produce health benefits, the intensity,
  duration, and frequency of activity is less than
  that required to produce improved fitness.
• Improved fitness is measured by how much exercise
  you can do. Improved health is measured by
  improved physiologic function of body systems.

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Principles of Physical Training

• Specificity
• Progressive Overload
• Reversibility
• Individual Differences

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