Concepts of Fitness and Wellness

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Concepts of Fitness and Wellness
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Wellness

• The constant and deliberate effort to stay
  healthy and achieve the highest potential for
  well-being
• The integration of many different components that
  expands ones potential to live and work
  effectively and to make a significant
  contribution to society.

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Components of Wellness

• Emotional Wellness
• Social Wellness
• Mental Wellness
• Physical Wellness
• Environmental Wellness
• Occupational Wellness
• Spiritual Wellness

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Emotional Wellness

• The ability to understand your own feelings,
  accept your limitations and achieve emotional
  stability.
• A persons ability to cope with daily
  circumstances and to deal with personal feelings
  in a positive, optimistic and constructive manner

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Social Wellness

• The ability to relate well to others, both within
  and outside the family unit.
• A persons ability to successfully interact with
  others and to establish meaningful relationships
  that enhance the quality of life for all people
  involved in the interaction.

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Mental Wellness

• Intellectual Wellness A state in which your
  mind is engaged in lively interaction with the
  world around you.
• A persons ability to learn and use information to
  enhance the quality of daily living and optimal
  functioning.

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Physical Wellness

• Good physical fitness and confidence in ones
  personal ability to take care of health problems.
• A persons ability to function effectively in
  meeting the demands of the days work and to use
  free time effectively. Includes good physical
  fitness and possession of useful motor skills.

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Environmental Wellness

• The capability to live in a clean and safe
  environment that is not detrimental to health.

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Occupational Wellness

• The ability to perform ones job skillfully and
  effectively under conditions that provide
  personal and team satisfaction and adequately
  reward each individual.

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Spiritual Wellness

• The sense that life is meaningful, that life has
  purpose and that some power brings all humanity
  together. The ethics, values and morals that
  guide us and give meaning and direction to life.

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Definition of Terms

• Physical activity any bodily movement produced
  by the contraction of the skeletal muscles that
  increases energy expenditure above the baseline
  level.
• Exercise physical activity that is planned,
  structured, and repetitive with the purpose of
  developing, improving, or maintaining physical
  fitness.

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Physical Fitness the ability to perform daily
tasks with vigor and without undue fatigue, and
with sufficient energy to engage in leisure-time
pursuits, to meet unforeseen emergencies, and the
vitality to perform at ones fullest capacity.
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Health Related Fitness Components
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Cardiorespiratory Endurance

• Bodys ability to deliver oxygen effectively to
  the working muscles to perform physical activity.
• Most important component of health fitness.
• Helps prevent hypokinetic disease.
• Concerned with the aerobic efficiency of the
  body.

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Body Composition

• Percentage of body weight composed of fat as
  compared with fat-free or lean tissue.
• Determined by height and weight tables or BMI
• Obesity is associated with numerous health
  problems and earlier mortality.
• In 1999, and estimated 61 of adults were either
  overweight or obese, and 13 of children were
  overweight.
• Determination of the cause of obesity is
  important.

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Body Composition

• Body composition is primarily influenced by
  nutrition and physical activity.
• Hypokinetic diseases
• Diseases caused by insufficient physical
  activity, often in conjunction with inappropriate
  dietary practices.

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Muscular Strength and Endurance

• Muscular strength is the ability of a muscle or a
  muscle group to exert a single force against a
  resistance.
• Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or
  muscle group to exert force repeatedly or over a
  period of time.
• Maintenance of proper posture protect joints.
• Production of power to enhance performance.
• Use it or lose it!

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Hypertrophy

• The increase in size of muscle cells due to
  physical activity or exercise.
• Atrophy
• The decrease in size of muscle cells due to
  inactivity

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Flexibility

• Maximum range of motion possible at a joint
• Joint specific better range of motion in some
  joints than in others.
• Can prevent muscle injuries improve low-back
  pain
• Decreased flexibility can be caused by
• Sedentary lifestyle (lack of use of muscles)
• Age
• High amounts of body fat
• Stress