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Title: A New You: Health for Every Body


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A New You Health for Every Body
Lesson 8 Fitness for Every Body
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What are the benefits of physical activity?
3
Keys to Success
Enjoy
Be safe comfortable
Fuel your body
Celebrate!
4
Fitness
Having the energy and strength to do everything
you need and want to do in your daily life.
5
Aerobic fitness
Muscular strength
Flexibility
6
Aerobic
Oxygen
Improve endurance with less tiring
Work heart lungs for better oxygen use
7
Aerobic Activities
walking, jogging, running
mowing, raking, sweeping
swimming, cycling, dancing
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The secret to health is only 2 feet away your
own 2 feet.
Robert Sweetgall Author, speaker, walker and
advocate of walking for wellness.
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Muscle Strength
Use it or lose it
10
Strength Activities
weight-lifting (cans, books, milk or water jugs)
elastic bands
body for resistance - calisthenics
11
Flexibility
Stretching comes naturally anywhere, anytime
12
Flexibility Activities
before after other activities
range-of-motion movements
stretching
13
Aim to accumulate 30 minutes of moderate physical
activity on all or most days.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000
14
On Your Own Learning OYOL
  • Increase one of the 3 daily 5-minute walks to 10
    minutes.

2. Record how you feel about the walks
3. Review and revise goals
4. Look for media messages with unrealistic body
images
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Adapted from A New You Living in A Healthy Body
developed by Outreach and Extension at University
of Missouri, Lincoln University
Adaptation revisions by Mary Kay Wardlaw
Project Education Specialist WIN the Rockies
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