1. Fitness for Life Chapter 1 – Fitness and Wellness for All
1.1 Physical Activity: A Lifestyle
1.2 Fitness Through Activity
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2. 1.1 Physical Activity: A Lifestyle Objectives -
Explain what physical fitness is.
Describe some benefits of being physically active.
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3. What is physical fitness?
The ability of your body systems to work together efficiently.
Efficiency – adequate in performance with a minimum waste of energy.
The ability to do daily activities with very little effort.
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4. Health and Wellness
Health – The state of optimal physical, mental and social well-being.
Wellness – health has been expanded to include wellness. Wellness is that state of being that allows you to reach your fullest potential. It includes:
Intellect
Social
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual health
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5. Benefits of Health and Wellness
Looking Good
Feeling Good
Enjoying Life
Meeting Emergencies
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6. Counting Heart Rate (HR)
Find Pulse: Radial or Carotid
Use your index finger and
your middle finger.
Take pulse for 1 minute.
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7. Exercise Basics
Warm-up: Before you begin an activity you should warm-up muscles in the body.
Stretch: You should stretch slowly,
DO NOT bounce or jerk
Cool-down: After exercise you should slow the blood flow to your muscles gradually (slowly). STOP

8. Resting Heart Rate (RHR)
RHR – Resting heart rate: should be taken when you first wake up in the morning, before you do anything.

9. Ways to Calculate HR
Count HR for 15 seconds and multiply by 4. (15x4=60)
Count HR for 10 seconds and multiply by 6. (10x6=60)
Count HR for 6 seconds and add a 0 at the end of the number. (6+0=60)
* These methods are not exact, but give you a good estimate of your HR.

10. 1.1 Check for Understanding
1. What is physical fitness?
Physical fitness is the ability of your body systems to work together efficiently: being able to do daily activities with the least amount of effort: being able to carry out the typical activities of living (work) and still have enough energy and vigor to respond to emergency situations and to enjoy leisure time activities.
2. Why is fitness important for everyone?
Being physically active provides many benefits to health and well-being; being inactive presents many health risks. Inactivity is a major risk factor for many diseases.

11. 1.1 Checking for Understanding
3. How has the definition of health changed over the years?
Early definitions of health focused on illness. Health was nothing more than the absence of disease. In recent years the definition of health has expanded to include wellness, a state of being that enables you to reach you fullest potential. Health and wellness includes your intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual health

12. 1.2 Fitness through Activity Objectives:
Name and describe the 5 parts of health-related physical fitness.
Name and describe the 6 parts of skill-related physical fitness.
Explain how to use the Stairway to Lifetime Fitness STOP

13. The Parts of Fitness
Health-related fitness – helps you to stay healthy (able to reach your full potential, and free of disease)
Skill-related fitness – helps you perform well in sports and activities that require certain skills

14. To be healthy you should do some activity/exercise that benefits each of the components of health related fitness.
Hypokinetic condition- a health problem caused partly by lack of exercise.
Heart disease
High blood pressure
Backache
Colon cancer
Being overfat

15. Health-Related Fitness
Cardiovascular Fitness – ability to exercise your entire body for long periods of time
Strength – amount of force muscles can apply
Muscular Endurance – ability to use muscles over a period of time without fatigue
Flexibility – ability to use joints fully through a wide range of motion
Body Fat (Body Composition) – amount of body weight that is made up of fat STOP

16. Skill-Related Fitness
Agility – ability to change position/direction quickly and with control
Balance – ability to keep an upright posture while standing still or moving
Coordination – ability to use your senses together with body parts (eye-hand coordination)
POWER – ability to use strength quickly
Reaction – amount of time it takes to move once you realize the need to act
Speed – ability to perform a movement or cover a distance quickly STOP

17. Stairway to Lifetime Fitness
Step 1 – Doing physical activity – you start out doing activities others plan for you, and progress to doing activities that you enjoy
Step 2 – Getting Fit – being responsible for your own physical activity or exercise patterns without depending on others
Step 3 – Self Assessment – using self-assessment to understand current fitness levels and help in self planning of activity and fitness
Step 4 – Self-Planning – using your self assessment results to plan your own fitness and activity program for fitness improvement/gains
Step 5 – Lifetime Activity – you learn WHY activity is important, WHAT your fitness needs are, and HOW to plan for a lifetime
Step 6 – Lifetime Fitness – you are responsible for you own fitness, can use assessment skills to evaluate your personal fitness, and plan or adjust your activity program to maintain your fitness

19. 1.2 Check for Understanding
Name and describe the 5 parts of health-related physical fitness.
Cardiovascular Fitness – ability to exercise your entire body for long periods of time
Strength – amount of force muscles can apply
Muscular Endurance – ability to use muscles over a period of time without fatigue
Flexibility – ability to use joints fully through a wide range of motion
Body Fat (Body Composition) – amount of body weight that is made up of fat

20. 1.2 Checking for Understanding
2. Name and describe the 6 parts of parts of skill-related physical fitness.
Agility – ability to change direction quickly, and to control your body’s movements.
Balance –ability to stay upright while standing or moving.
Coordination –ability to use two or more body parts together. (Ex. Hand-eye coordination.)
Power –ability to use strength quickly.
Reaction –amount of time it takes to move/react
Speed –ability to perform a movement or cover a distance in a short amount of time.

21. 1.2 Checking for Understanding
3. As you climb the Stairway to Lifetime Fitness, you move from your present level of activity and fitness to ____________________________. lifetime fitness