HBS110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Heart Rate Monitor, Stretching
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All body movements produced by skeletal muscles resulting in substantial increases in energy expenditure. Can be occupational, lifestyle of leisure time. Planned, structured and repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness. A set of attributes that allow you to perform moderate-to vigorous-intensity physical activity regularly. Without getting too tired, and with energy left over to handle physical or mental emergencies. Deaths related to stoke and osteoporosis. All would be prevented if pa guidelines were followed. 1/5 deaths related to colon cancer, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. 1/7 deaths related to breast cancer: reduce stress, improves mood, decreases risk of depression, decreases anxiety. Breasts: decreases rick of breast cancer. Heart: decreases risk of heart disease, strengthens the heart. Increase volume of blood pumped to the body. Liver and pancreas: reduces risk of type two diabetes. Doing any pa is better than none. Be active on most, preferably all days.
