Liz Cheriscat

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Physical Fitness and Your Health

• Liz Cheriscat
• Emily Parker
• Ryan Johnson
• Fahriha Esmail

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Group Information

• Group 1
• Chapter 3- Physical Fitness and Your Health
  
• Lesson 1- Physical Fitness and You
• Lesson 2- Exercise and Fitness
• Lesson 3- Planning a Fitness Program

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Intended For College Freshman

• Not Majoring in a Health Field

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Introductory Test

• What do you know about physical fitness?
• Warm up test

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What Is Physical Fitness?

• 5 Aspects of Physical Fitness
• Body Composition
• Flexibility
• Muscular Strength
• Muscular Endurance
• Cardiorespiratory Endurance

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Body Composition

• Ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including
  muscle, bone, water, and connective tissue such
  as, ligaments, cartilage, and tendons

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Body Composition

• What are some of the reasons that people exercise?

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Body Composition

• Skin Fold Test-Relationship between the thickness
  of lean body tissue and amount of fat in body
• BMI
• http//health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/bmi/
  bmi.html

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Flexibility

• The ability to move a body part through the full
  range of motion

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Muscular Strength

• The amount of force a muscle can exert
• Activities that require muscular strength

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Measuring Muscular Strengths

• Test Your Abdominal Strength!
• Curl-ups - One every 3 seconds

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Muscular Endurance

• Ability of the muscle to do difficult physical
  tasks over a long period of time without causing
  fatigue

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Cardiorespiratory Endurance

• Ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to
  send fuel and oxygen to the bodys tissues during
  long periods of vigorous activity

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Measuring Cardiorespiratory Endurance

• Step-test
• Pulse Recovery Rate
• Practice Taking Pulse

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Results
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Benefits of Exercise

• Contributes to function of nervous, circulatory,
  and respiratory system
• Builds a strong body
• Slows the onset of osteoporosis
• Protects against diseases
• Recuperation and restoration

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Exercise and Weight Control

• 1 in 3 American adults is obese
• 1 in 5 teens is obese
• If you take in fewer calories than you burn, you
  lose weight
• If you take in more calories than you burn, you
  gain weight

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Improving Your Fitness-Cardiorespiratory Endurance

• Aerobic-vigorous activity in which oxygen is
  continuously taken in for a period of atleast 20
  minutes
• Heart rate increases
• More oxygen to muscles
• Raises lung capacity

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Aerobic Exercise
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Improving Your Fitness- Muscular Strength,
Endurance and Flexibility

• Anaerobic- Involves intense bursts of activity in
  which muscles work so hard that they produce
  energy without using oxygen

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Anaerobic Exercise
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Planning a Fitness Program

• Set goals
• Plan your exercise a week ahead of time
• Reward yourself
• Be reasonable

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Selecting The Right Activity

• Where you live
• Your interests
• Health Level
• Time and Place

• Personal Safety
• Comprehensive planning

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Basic Exercise Program

• Warm-up
• Prepares muscles for workout
• Workout
• F.I.T.T formula
• Cool-down

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Monitoring Your Progress

• Evaluate
• Journal
• Resting heart rate