01:377:140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sports Medicine, Sport Management, Planet Fitness
11 Sep 2016
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Sport: an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy and fair play. A winner can be defined by objective means. Exercise/fitness: any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health/wellness. Physical education (pe): physical activity that takes place in an academic institution. Recreation/leisure: an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. Dance: on of the earliest recorded forms of human movement. Generally refers to the movement of the body, to music rhythmically. A form of expression, social interaction, spiritual or performance. Kinesiology: the study of the mechanics of body"s movements. Physical activity in health, wellness & quality of life. Cultural, historical & philosophical dimensions of physical activity. Exercise physiology: the study of how the body (cells, tissues, organs, system) responds in function & structure to acute exercise stress and chronic physical activity. The branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of injuries or illness resulting from athletic activities.
