HE101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pilates, Menopause, Stretching
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Physical activity: body movements produced by skeletal muscles resulting in energy expenditure: for health, fitness, & performance. Wide range of physical, social & mental health benefits. Achieved when systems of the body are healthy & function efficiently so as to resist disease, to enable fit person to engage in vigorous tasks & leisure activities + handle situations of emergency . Health-related fitness: fitness pertains to disease prevention and health promotion. Defining fitness: increase ability to perform daily activities w/ energy, hearts, lungs, muscles able to sustain a higher level of activity for a longer period of time, w/ less effort, decrease risk of injury & illness. *as a population fitness is doing bad. Pa among can. not even above 25% total. Youth: not any better, very few based on guidelines. Those w/ an active role model influences person. Extreme activities lead to non-specific depression of immune system. Perception of effort is contributing element to choosing sedentary activities.
