1. A New You: Health for Every Body Lesson 8: Fitness for Every Body

2. What are the benefits of physical activity?

3. Keys to Success Enjoy Be safe & comfortable Fuel your body Celebrate!

4. Having the energy and strength to do everything you need and want to do in your daily life.

5. Aerobic fitness Flexibility Muscular strength

6. Aerobic Work heart & lungs for better oxygen use Oxygen Improve endurance with less tiring

7. Aerobic Activities walking, jogging, running mowing, raking, sweeping swimming, cycling, dancing

8. “The secret to health is only 2 feet away – your own 2 feet.” Robert Sweetgall – Author, speaker, walker and advocate of walking for wellness.

9. Muscle Strength Use it or lose it

10. Strength Activities weight-lifting (cans, books, milk or water jugs) elastic bands body for resistance - calisthenics

11. Flexibility Stretching comes naturally – anywhere, anytime

12. Flexibility Activities before & after other activities range-of-motion movements stretching

13. Aim to accumulate 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on all or most days. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000

14. 1.Increase one of the 3 daily 5-minute walks to 10 minutes. 4. Look for media messages with unrealistic body images On Your Own Learning OYOL 2. Record how you feel about the walks 3. Review and revise goals

15. Adapted from A New You: Living in A Healthy Body developed by Outreach and Extension at University of Missouri, Lincoln University Adaptation & revisions by Mary Kay Wardlaw Project Education Specialist WIN the Rockies