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Ch. 12 L1 & L2
Nutrition
Question | Answer |
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Physical Activity | any form of movement that causes your body to use energy |
Physical Fitness | the ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough energy to respond to unexpected demands |
Exercise | purposeful physical activity that is planned, structure, and repetitive, and that improves or maintains physical fitness |
Sedentary | involving little physical activity |
Aerobic Exercise | all the rhythmic activities that use large muscles over a long period of time |
Anaerobic Exercise | short burst of activity in which muscles work so hard that they produce energy without using oxygen |
Isotonic Exercise | combine movements of the joints with the contraction of the muscles (calisthenics, lifting weights, push ups, and sit ups) |
Isokinetic Exercise | exert resistance against a muscle as it moves through a range of motion at a steady rate speed (weight machines) |
What are mental and emotional stress benefits? | ○ Stress relief ○ Mood enhancement ○ Better sleep ○ Improve self-esteem |
What are risks to being inactive? | ○ Cardiovascular disease ○ Type 2 diabetes ○ Asthma ○ Osteoporosis ○ Psychological problems ○ Premature death |
How much time a day should you set aside for exercise? | 1hr ○ 60 min once a day ○ 30 min twice a day ○ 20 min three times a day ○ 15 min four times a day ○ 10 min five times a day |
Cardiorespiratory Endurance | the ability of your heart, lungs, and blood vessels to send fuel and oxygen to your tissues during long periods of moderate vigorous activity |
Muscular strength | the amount of strength your muscles exert |
Muscular endurance | the ability of your muscles to preform physical tasks over a period of time without tiring |
Flexibility | the ability to move your body parts through their full range of motion |
Body Composition | the ratio of fats to lean tissue in your body |
To Measure your cardiorespiratory endurance | 3 min. step test |
Measuring Muscular strength and endurance | ○ Curl ups ○ Right angle push ups |
Measuring Body Composition | the skin fold caliber pinch skin measure body fat |
Measuring Flexbility | Sit and reach test |