Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Body Composition, Stretching
11 Jun 2018
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Lecture 7
Exercise and Leisure
Physical Fitness
• The ody’s aility to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort
• Your ability to perform moderate to vigorous levels of physical activity without becoming overly
tired
5 components of fitness
• Cardiorespiratory endurance
• Muscular strength
• Muscular endurance
• Flexibility
• Body composition
Health- is a state
Fitness- ody’s aility to espod ad adapt to the atiity that ou ody euies us to do
Exercise- Structured activity
Leisure- things we do for pleasure, can be physical or spiritual etc.
Recreation- May be a social component to it.
Recreational Therapist- Brings exercise and leisure to a structures form.
Musle eighs oe, so BMI is’t that auate
Canada’s Physical guide
• Increase endurance, strength and flexibility activities.
• Reduce sedentary behaviour
Children have had the lowest physical activity and more screen time in last 30 years
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Document Summary
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