Kinesiology 3337A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3337A/B
• Professor: Glen Belfry

Document Summary

Physical activity: encompasses all leisure and non-leisure body movement by skeletal muscle increasing energy expenditure over resting levels. Domestic: housework, yard work, physically-active child care. Transportation: walking, biking, or running for purpose of going somewhere. Leisure-time: discretionary time for hobbies, sports and exercise: planned, structured, and repetitive activity usually with specific objective for improving physical fitness. Physical fitness: set attributes or characteristics people have (or achieve) relating to ability to perform physical activity. General fitness: state of health or well-being. Specific fitness: task-oriented definition based on ability to perform specific sport or physically demanding occupation. Health-related fitness: fitness components exhibiting relationship with health status: ex. aerobic, msk, and functional fitness. Ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and too mett unforeseen emergencies. Performance-related fitness: physical training for specific task like recreation sport or physical demanding job.