Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture 6: Physical Exercise Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

The journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. The benefits of exercise: scientists have studied the effects of exercise on health and functioning for the past 40 years, found to be the most important action you can take to improve wellness. Psychological benefits of physical activity of physical activity of physical activity of physical activity: state and trait anxiety, depression, cognitive functioning, self-esteem, mood states, improved reactivity to stressors. We know of no single intervention with greater promise than physical exercise to reduce the risk of virtually all chronic diseases simultaneously (p. 778) Exercise adherence: adherence: sticking to or faithfully conforming to a standard of behaviour in order to meet some goal. Approximately 47% of canadian adults are inactive: more men (55%) than women (51%) are active. Globally, at least 1 in 4 adults fails to achieve the minimum recommendation of daily physical activity.