HSS2342- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2342
• Professor: Kier J Menzie

Document Summary

Fitness: physical activity, nutrients, and body adaptations: fitness. Fitness is characterized by the ability of the body to perform physical activity or to have the ability to meet the demands of physical routines with enough reserve energy to rise to a physical challenge. This depends on a certain minimal amount of physical activity or exercise. Fitness involves body movement, muscle contraction, and enhanced energy expenditure. Long life and high quality of life in later years. 25% of canadian adults are moderately active, 23% are active, and over 50% of canadians are inactive: developing fitness. The current canadian physical activity guidelines recommend at lease 150min of moderate-to- vigorous aerobic physical activity each week, in bouts of at least 10mins or more. Conditioning is achieved by training by the overload principle. Overload means increasing the amount of work we do - constantly challenging the body, which in turn causes it to adapt.