1. PEAK 404
Exercise Physiology
The Big Picture

2. What Are We? Humans Mobile tube within a tube.
Mobile bag of chemicals.
Able to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out.

3. What Are We? Humans Built for survival in the wild.
Need energy (get it from the sun).
Make almost everything else.
Recycling center !!

4. To Survive…… We must move. When we don’t move
Save energy by absorbing (recycling) unnecessary tissue (material).
Become weak and frail.
Become good at not moving (adaptations)
Not likely to survive very long (suffer then die)

5. To Survive…… We must move. When we do move
It requires extra energy, but….
Become stronger.
Become better at moving (adaptations)
Likely to survive (defeat, overcome, endure)

6. The Human Today* Western Society Example: “The Garden Variety Human”
Daily routine
Conveniences
Starving?
Moving?
Dying?

7. Affective Point of View
View life as a continuum.
Birth
Death
Quantity of Life
Happiness
Pain and Suffering
Quality of Life

8. Life Regular movement is no guarantee of maximum quantity or quality.
Regular movement has the potential to maximize both.

9. Death Premature? Preceded by suffering?
Impacts more than just one person.

10. Top 10 Causes of Death 1900 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7

11. Top 10 Causes of Death 1998 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8

12. Let’s Compare
1900
1998

13. What Has Lead to These Changes?
Lifestyle of Convenience
Why move when something else can move for you?
Poor Nutritional Choices
Calorie rich but nutrient poor.
Medical Model of Health
“We’ve got a pill for that.”

16. How Many Are Lifestyle Related?

17. Other Lists

18. What has changed? Years past Now Active life Communicable diseases
Inactive life
Few communicable diseases (meds for all)
Lifestyle diseases

19. Do People Know What it Takes to be Healthy?
Grandma says…..
Walking the dog…..
Neighbor walking to school….
Cycling on the bike trail…..

20. Conclusions What do we know? People want good health.
People know what it takes to be healthy.
People are not willing to invest the energy or time to maintain health.
Life is too good – too easy.
Value is placed on convenience not effort.

21. Conclusions How Do We Know This My neighbor Walking the dog
Obesity Trends
Fitness Industry
Places
Products / ads
Publications

22. New Diets

23. Choices

24. What is Your Role? Know what movement does. Value what movement does.
Study
Value what movement does.
Your Lifestyle
Show what movement does.
Be an example
Be a teacher/ facilitator/ motivator

25. What is Your Role?
You have the potential to affect the whole person….

26. Wellness Global Wellness – The Whole Person Physical* Psychological
Spiritual
Environmental
Intellectual
Social

27. Performance
You have the potential to affect a person’s function…..

28. Performance
Citius, Altius, Fortius
Sport
ADLs
Work
Rehab

29. Performance Limits of maximal function Anthropometric Technique
Equipment
Physiologic function

30. Performance Overcome limits Anthropometric Pick the right parents
Choose proper nutrition
Increase or decrease mass

31. Performance
Overcome limits
Technique
Improve technique

32. Performance
Overcome limits
Equipment
Buy or design better equipment

33. Performance Overcome limits Physiologic function
Stimulus leads to response (training)
Consistent stim/response cycle - adaptation
Train to increase strength and speed
Train to increase endurance
Train to increase speed and endure discomfort

34. Questions?

35. End