2. What You Will Do
Define the importance of physical activity and personal fitness.
Explain the relationship between health and fitness.
Analyze the role of fitness in recognizing and resolving conflicts effectively.
Describe methods of evaluating health-related fitness.
Participate in activities to evaluate your health-related fitness.

3. Terms to Know physical activity exercise physical fitness
personal fitness
health
wellness
functional health
sedentary
self-esteem
conflicts
functional fitness
skill-related fitness
health-related fitness

4. Physical Activity, Exercise, and Health
Here are some challenges concerning your personal fitness:
Assessing your level of physical fitness and progress
Learning about changes in personal habits that you may need to make
Taking responsibility for planning, developing, and maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle
Designing a physical-activity and fitness program

5. What Is Physical Activity?
Any movement that works the larger muscles of the body, such as arm, leg, and back muscles.
Term to Know
Physical activity can be:
Recreational
Sports, dancing, swimming
Incidental to other activities
Household chores, part-time job

6. What Is Physical Activity?
Exercise
Physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive, and that results in improvements in fitness.
Term to Know
Physical activity and exercise are important to your health because physically active people live longer lives.

7. Why Are Physical Activity and Exercise Important?
Physical fitness
The body’s ability to carry out daily tasks and still have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands.
Term to Know
Regular physical activity and exercise contribute to your physical fitness.

8. Personal Fitness To achieve personal fitness: Term to Know
Total fitness.
Term to Know
To achieve personal fitness:
Maintain acceptable levels of physical fitness.
Participate in regular physical activity.
Eat nutritious foods.
Sleep 8 to 9 hours each night.
Have regular medical checkups.
Maintain an appropriate weight.
Avoid harmful substances.

9. Fitness, Health, and Wellness
A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Wellness
Total health in all three areas.
Terms to Know
The three essential elements of health and wellness are:
Physical fitness
Mental/emotional health
Social health

10. Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Functional health
The ability to maintain high levels of health and wellness by reducing your risks of developing health problems.
Term to Know
Physical activity is one way to maintain your functional health.

11. Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Sedentary
Physically inactive.
Term to Know
Risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle include:
Heart disease
High blood pressure
Stroke
Diabetes
Certain forms of cancer

12. Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Self-esteem
Feelings of self-confidence and personal worth.
Term to Know
The benefits of mental/ emotional health include:
Thinking more clearly
Handling stress better
Higher self-esteem

13. Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Conflicts
Struggles or disagreements.
Term to Know
The benefits of social health include:
Develop and maintain friendships.
Work well as part of a group.
Effectively recognize and resolve conflicts.

14. Functional Fitness
Functional fitness
A person’s physical ability to function independently in life, without assistance.
Term to Know
Maintaining high levels of health and fitness yields an additional benefit: functional fitness.

15. The Physical Activity Pyramid
This pyramid provides guidelines for how to divide your time when doing physical activity.
Sedentary Activities
Do infrequently
Flexibility Activities
2 or more days per week
Anaerobic Activities
2-3 days per week
Aerobic Activities
3-5 days per week
Moderate-Intensity Physical Activities
30 minutes per day

16. Healthy People 2010 and Fitness
Healthy People 2010 is a government initiative to encourage all Americans to make health and fitness a top priority.

17. Healthy People 2010 and Fitness
Skill-related fitness
Your ability to perform successfully in various games and sports.
Health-related fitness
Your ability to become and stay physically healthy.
Terms to Know
The goals of Healthy People 2010 are for all Americans to reach and sustain high levels of fitness in:
Skill-related fitness
Health-related fitness

18. Vocabulary What is physical activity? What is physical fitness?
Lesson 1 Review
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
2. Recall
Physical fitness is an important part of maintaining the health triangle.
1. Vocabulary
Physical activity: any movement that works the larger muscles of the body. Physical fitness: the ability to carry out daily tasks and still have energy.
Vocabulary What is physical activity? What is physical fitness?
Recall What is the relationship between physical fitness and health?

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