KP100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Hirvensalo, Body Shape, Peer Pressure
15 Mar 2018
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Discuss physical activity and sport participation throughout life. Social reinforcement, socio economic, inactivity all have an a ect on whether you continue sport in adulthood or not. Life-course perspective introduced as temporal research perspective helps in understanding physical activity over lifespan. Transitions or events at later stages in life can shape direction of whether you are active or not. Determinants are factors a ecting physical activity (demographic, biological, psychological, behavioural, social and cultural and physical environment) Transitions or life changes are seen as an opportunity fro positive and negative changes in physical activity. Caspersen pa is voluntary movemnt produced by skeleteal muscles resulting in increased energy expenditure adn exercise is a subcategory of pa, bpalnned, strucuters and repetitive with intent of improving or maintain patterns of tness . For young it is exercising in a sports club for fun or serious competitiveness. For older is be sports club participation or walk to market place or rehabilitiation.
