Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Body Composition, Exercise Prescription, Metabolic Equivalent
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8:15 walked from parking lot to campus. Making guidelines: pa and health knowledge applicable info. Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that results in energy expenditure and increases heart rate and breathing. Postures or activities that require very little movement. Any planned, structures, repetitive and aims to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness a sub category of physical activity type of language that we use does matter and can be interpreted differently. Fitness: no universal agreement, performance-related fitness, health-related fitness, cardiovascular endurance maybe cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition. 3 age categories children and adolescents: recommended everyday, 3 days muscles and bones adults 16-64, 150 mins of moderate, 300 mins = health benefits, 2 days muscles/bones for poor mobility balance activities 3 times per week. 65: muscle strengthening 2 days per week, beneficial activity for 10 mins or more.