Chapter 1: Why Personal Fitness?

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Chapter 1 Why Personal Fitness?

• How can this class impact/improve your quality of
  life?

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Fitness Habits of Students

• Current American Lifestyle fosters lack of
  fitness. Why?
• Mechanical devices
• Technology

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What has the research shown us about people who
workout?

• Active lifestyle during childhood has a direct
  benefit to health in later years.
• Those who are active as children tend to be
  active as adults.
• So should PE be mandatory for all children?

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What has the research shown has happened to high
school students over the past 20 years?

• Overall fitness has declined
• Poor eating habits
• Blood pressure higher
• Higher of body fat
• If overweight as a teenager, odds are you will be
  overweight as an adult
• About ½ of people 12-21 regularly participate in
  vigorous physical activity
• ¼ of young people report no vigorous physical
  activity

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Fitness in America

• Good News
• Americans are aware that inactivity and poor
  health habits are linked to illnesses and early
  death.
• There is a trend to health and fitness in the
  last 10 years

• Bad News
• Not enough exercising and changing lifestyles
• 10 of adults get recommended amount of activity
• ¼ of adults have no leisure time activity

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What is the major cause of the deaths in our
country? What are people dying from?

• Examples
• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• Stroke
• Diabetes (Type 2)
• Cancer
• Emphysema
• Cirrhosis of Liver

• Lifestyle diseases
• Many of the major health problems are caused by
  our lifestyles

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What does it mean to be healthy?

• Wellness
• Quality of life
• Components
• Intellectual-think critically
• Physical
• Emotional-manage stress
• Positive self-concept
• Spiritual-meaning purpose in life
• Social-relationships

• Health
• State of complete physical, mental and social
  well being
• More than absence of disease

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To be truly healthy

• Balanced Lifestyle
• All components are related to each other.

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Physical Fitness

• The ability to attain certain physical attributes
• Perform daily activities with vigor
• Reduce risk of health problems related to lack of
  exercise
• Complete a variety of activities
• Functional Fitness a persons physical ability
  to function independently in life, without
  assistance

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Two Types of Physical Fitness

• Health Related
• Contribute to disease prevention and health
  promotion
• Vital for lifetime well-being
• Body Composition- of body weight composed of fat
  compared to that is composed of tissue
• Flexibility-joint and muscle group to move
  through a range of motion
• Muscular Strength- force that can be exerted by a
  single contraction
• Muscular Endurance-continue using certain muscles
  for a period of time
• Cardiorespiratory Endurance-ability to do
  vigorous, large muscle exercise over a period of
  time

• Skill Related
• Helps to be successful in sports
• These do not make you physically fit
• Speed
• Power
• Coordination
• Reaction
• Agility

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Fitness Triangle
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What are the risk factors? What could lead to
our death? Maybe earlier than expected.

• Controllable
• Physical inactivity
• Cigarette smoking
• Obesity excess of fat
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• High cholesterol
• High stress lifestyle

• Uncontrollable
• Heredity
• Age
• Gender

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Fitness our Lifestyle

• Gender Who is more likely to workout?
• Race or ethnic background
• Socioeconomic status
• Age
• Culture
• You Decide!!!