Foundations of Personal Fitness

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What You Will Do

• Identify changeable risk factors that affect your
  levels of health and personal fitness.
• Describe lifestyle choices that can improve
  overall levels of fitness and offset negative
  factors.
• Define stress and describe activities that you
  can use for stress reduction.
• Identify risk factors for developing heart
  disease.

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Terms to Know

• risk factors
• heredity

• stress

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Risk Factors and Your Behavior

• Your life expectancy and the quality of your life
  will be influenced by how well you maintain your
  functional health and fitness.

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Personal Fitness and Risk Factors

• Achieving and maintaining a high level of
  functional health and fitness is made more
  difficult by risk factors.

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Risk Factors You Cant Modify

• Risks factors you cant modify include age and
  heredity.

One aspect of heredity is gender, the natural
differences between males and females.
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Risk Factors You Cant Modify

• Heredity determines your likelihood of developing
  certain diseases and disorders.

• High blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• Certain types of cancers

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Risk Factors and Your Behavior
Can Modify Cant Modify
1. Heredity
2. Gender
3. Sedentary lifestyle
4. Smoking
5. Food choices
6. Excessive stress
7. Obesity
8. Diabetes
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Changeable Risk Factors

• You cannot control risk factors such as heredity
  or age, you can lessen their impact on your
  health and fitness by changing your behavior.

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Changeable Risk Factors

• Adults who are sedentary develop chronic diseases
  at a much higher rate than do more active
  individuals.
• Choosing a physically active lifestyle is one way
  to reduce your risks of developing disease and to
  live a longer, healthier life.

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Changeable Risk Factors

• It is important to practice healthful eating
  habits.
• Knowing what to eat can make a difference in
  your health and fitness.
• Maintaining a healthy body weight and making
  balanced food choices will reduce your risk of
  becoming obese.
• Obesity is a major risk factor for developing
  type 2 diabetes.

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Changeable Risk Factors

• It is important to avoid the use of tobacco.
• People who smoke or use tobacco products are at
  far greater risk of heart and lung disease than
  are nonsmokers.
• People using chewing tobacco are at a higher risk
  for cancer of the throat.

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Changeable Risk Factors

• It is important to manage stress in your life.

Stress is perfectly normal, but it can lead to
health problems such as sleeplessness and
depression.
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Changeable Risk Factors
Managing Stress in Your Life
Adjust Your Eating Habits
Spend Some Time Alone
Maintain a High Level of Physical Activity
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Lesson 2 Review
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
1. Vocabulary Risk factors are conditions or
behaviors that represent a potential threat to an
individuals well being.
2. Vocabulary Stress is the mind and bodys
response to the demands and threats of everyday
life, and is perfectly normal.
3. Recall Three changeable risk factors are
becoming physically active, avoiding smoking and
the use of tobacco products, and practicing
healthful eating habits.

1. Vocabulary What are risk factors?
2. Vocabulary What is stress?
3. Recall Name three changeable risk factors that
   can impact your functional health.

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