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Health, fitness and exercise 1
Health, fitness and exercise
What you will learn about in this topic:
1. The definition of health, fitness and exercise
2. The comparisons between health and fitness
3. The effects of a lack of exercise
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Learning objectives
By the end of this presentation you should be able to:
• Understand the terms health, fitness and exercise
• Describe each of these terms
• Explain how a lack of exercise affects performance
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Definition of health
A state of complete mental, physical and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
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Definition of fitness
The ability to meet the demands of the environment
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Definition of exercise
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A form of physical activity done to maintain or improve your health and fitness.
Definition of performance
• How well a task is completed
Task
1. Design five questions with answers about health and skill related fitness. (no 1 word answer questions)
The principles of training 24
To maintain a level of general fitness, you should try to:
• Exercise three to five times a week
• Increase your heart rate to above 60 per cent of your maximum
• Keep your heart rate raised for no less than 20 minutes in each session
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Physical well-being
Mental well-being
Social well-being
Being healthy involves deloping these components
• Fitness is to do with the physical, so your body may be functioning at a peak but the other aspects of health may not be present.
• Mental is to do with how well you concentrate, think things through and approach life.
• Social is to do with how well you interact, cooperate and deal with other people.
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In order to be healthy you have to be physically fit.
But as well as exercising in order to develop the physical component, you also need to be socially and mentally well-adjusted in order to be healthy.
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If the social and mental components are lacking or underdeveloped you could still be physically fit but not classed as healthy.
Exercise is the link between health and fitness.
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Effects of lack of exercise• Weight increase
• Less flexibility
• Become breathless sooner
• Aerobic capacity is reduced
• Loss of strength
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Task
Using ICT, create a poster showing the relationship between health, fitness and exercise.
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Exam questions1. Health is:A. The ability to meet the demands of
the environment
B. Working towards improving all areas of the body
C. A state of complete physical fitness and calmness
D.A state of physical, mental and social well-being
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What you have learntin this topic:
1. The definition of health, fitness and exercise
2. The comparisons between health and fitness
3. The effects of a lack of exercise
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Learning objectives
You should now be able to:
• Understand the terms health, fitness and exercise
• Describe each of these terms
• Explain how a lack of exercise affects performance
