PSY 707 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Physical Exercise, Eustress

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 707
• Professor: Alba Agostino

Document Summary

Physical exercise: planned physical activity designed to exert your body for health or fitness reasons. Cardiorespiratory fitness: aerobic fitness; the heart, blood vessels, and lungs" ability to supply oxygen-rich blood to the muscles during sustained physical activity. Fitt principle: frequency, intensity, time, and type of physical activity. Recommendation is 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise a week. Reality: according to statistics canada, 15% of the adult population meet this guideline. Sometimes people get lost while engaging in the activity. Can be seen as an example of eustress, positive stress we find rewarding and challenging. Figure 11. 1 physical activity dose-response curve for all-cause mortality reported by warburton et al. (2010). Table 11. 4 - summary of findings from warburton et al. (2010) for the effects of physical exercise/fitness on seven primary health outcomes. Number of associations stem from epidemiological studies. Random assignment to 12-week aerobic or strength/flex program. Aerobic group showed greater decrease in epinepherine and cardiovascular reactivity in response to mental challenge.