PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Isometric Exercise, Anaerobic Exercise

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 365
• Professor: David Cox

Document Summary

Psyc 365 chapter 5 health & physical activity. Sport psyc: study of the inluence of psychological factors on sport behavior. Exercise psyc: study of the inluence that sport & exercise have on one"s psyc & behavior. Exercise psyc atends to the body-to-mind relaionship. Sport psyc is directed toward the mind-to-body relaionship. Physical acivity: expenditure of energy, either purposely / without intenion, as a result of bodily movements produced by skeletal muscles as part of leisure / work aciviies. Physical acivity to be meaningful it must have a purpose". Physical itness: physiological funcioning (including cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, body composiion, lexibility) that inluences the ability to be physically acive. 5 forms of physical itness (1) cardiorespiratory endurance (2) muscular endurance (3) muscular strength (4) body composiion (5) flexibility. Sport: an acivity that involves rules or limits, a sense of history, an aspect of winning and losing, and an emphasis on physical exerion in the context of compeiion.