1. Health & Fitness

2. Physical Activity, Fitness, & Exercise  Physical activity is any movement that makes your body use extra energy.  Fitness Being fit means to be able to handle physical work and play each day without getting overly tired  Exercise Planned physical activity done regularly to build or maintain one’s fitness

3. Benefits of physical activity :  Build and maintain muscles and bones  Sleep better  Manage stress and weight  Increase strength and flexibility  Keeps blood pressure at a healthy level  Makes you heart and lungs work better  Have more energy  Less danger of developing diseases in the future

4. 5 elements of Health- Related Physical Fitness 1.Cardiovascular endurance 2.Muscular strength 3.Muscular endurance 4.Flexibility 5.Body composition

5. Types of Exercise  Aerobic exercise Rhythmic moderate-to-vigorous activity that uses large amounts of oxygen and works the heart and lungs  Anaerobic exercise Intense physical activity that builds muscle that does not use large amounts of oxygen Examples?

6. Measuring your fitness  Push-ups : as many properly done push-ups you can do consecutively (without resting in the up position for more than 5 seconds)  Sit ups : as many as you can in 1 minute. Shoulders off the floor and back down. Partner holding your feet down.  Sit and reach : back against the wall. Knees straight. Bottom staying on the wall and your reach down a yard stick between your feet, that are 1 foot apart. Take the best score out of 3.  Height & Weight: Body mass index  Pacer or 1 mile run: timed running