Title: A New You: Health for Every Body
1A New You Health for Every Body
Lesson 8 Fitness for Every Body
2What are the benefits of physical activity?
3Keys to Success
Enjoy
Be safe comfortable
Fuel your body
Celebrate!
4Fitness
Having the energy and strength to do everything
you need and want to do in your daily life.
5Aerobic fitness
Muscular strength
Flexibility
6Aerobic
Oxygen
Improve endurance with less tiring
Work heart lungs for better oxygen use
7Aerobic Activities
walking, jogging, running
mowing, raking, sweeping
swimming, cycling, dancing
8The secret to health is only 2 feet away your
own 2 feet.
Robert Sweetgall Author, speaker, walker and
advocate of walking for wellness.
9Muscle Strength
Use it or lose it
10Strength Activities
weight-lifting (cans, books, milk or water jugs)
elastic bands
body for resistance - calisthenics
11Flexibility
Stretching comes naturally anywhere, anytime
12Flexibility Activities
before after other activities
range-of-motion movements
stretching
13Aim to accumulate 30 minutes of moderate physical
activity on all or most days.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000
14On 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
15Adapted 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