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Question | Answer |
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optimal health and vitality | wellness |
Dimensions of wellness | Physical wellness Emotional wellness Intellectual wellness Spiritual wellness Interpersonal and social wellness Environmental, or planetary, wellness |
Leading Cause of Death Overall | Heart disease |
Second leading cause of death in US | cancer |
Leading cause of death for ages 15–24 | unintentional injuries |
Physical activity | any body movement carried out by the skeletal muscles and requiring energy |
Exercise | planned, structured, repetitive movement of the body designed to improve or maintain physical fitness |
Physical fitness | a set of physical attributes that allows the body to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort |
Health-related fitness | physical capacities that contribute to health |
Cardiorespiratory endurance | the ability of the body to perform prolonged, large-muscle, dynamic exercise at moderate-to-high levels of intensity. |
Muscular strength | the amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort |
Muscular endurance | the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to remain contracted or to contract repeatedly |
Flexibility | the ability to move joints through their full range of motion |
Body composition | the proportion of fat and fat-free mass (muscle, bone, and water) in the body |
FITT principle | Frequency—How often Intensity—How hard Time—How long (duration) Type—Mode of activity |
Mesomorph | muscular |
Ectomorph | thin, slight of build |
Endomorph | rounded body type, may be plump |
the major 'currency' of energy in the body | ATP |
maximum heart rate (MHR) | 220 – your age = MHR |
Dehydration | excessive loss of fluid |
Heat exhaustion | = heat illness related to dehydration from exertion in hot weather |
Heat stroke | a severe and often fatal heat illness characterized by significantly elevated core body temperature |
Managing minor exercise injuries: RICE | Rest Ice Compression Elevation |
Essential fat | crucial for normal body functioning |
Too little body fat for women | Less than 10–12% |
Too little body fat for men | Less than 5% |