1. Lifetime Personal Fitness
Chapter Eighteen
Lifetime Personal Fitness

2. Evaluating Your Progress
Retake the health-related fitness tests.
Compare your results to those at the beginning of the course.
Identify changes which may be needed in your exercise program and/or lifestyle.
As your lifestyle and activity preferences change, continue to reexamine your choices and make necessary modifications.

3. Your Changing Body
Skeletal muscles may lose some of their strength.
The circulatory system may become less efficient.
The skin may become wrinkled.
Hair turns gray.

4. Special Health Problems
Alcohol
Tobacco Use
Osteoporosis
Cancer

5. Fitness & Wellness Career Opportunities
Athletic Trainer
Corporate Fitness Instructor
Exercise Physiologist
Personal Trainer
Physical therapist
Fitness/wellness Center Director

8. The Keys to Good Nutrition
Follow the Dietary Guidelines
Use MyPyramid Food Guide
Read Food Labels

9. Your Lifestyle Choices
You have a choice - the physically active life which has documented benefits or the inactive life with all the problems associated with it.
The Decision is Yours!
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