Health and Fitness

1. Health and Fitness By Parker J. E. Carte

2. Why Should People Exercise? • To improve their health • Physical • Mental • Social • To relieve stress and tension • For the physical challenge • For competition • To improve self-esteem • Feel better about themselves • To improve the body’s shape • Lose weight, build muscle, improve flexibility • To socialize and interact with other people • To have fun and enjoy themselves

3. Benefits of Exercise • The benefits of exercise can be grouped into four major categories • Physical • Lose weight, build muscle, tone the body, improve flexibility, improve endurance, etc. • Social • Make new friends and interact with other people • Mental • Relieve stress and tension, improve self-esteem, build confidence • Aesthetic • People like how they look when they exercise and stay healthy and fit

4. What Are Some Items That Contribute to Good Health? • Proper nutrition • Adequate sleep and rest • Exercise • Avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and drugs • Knowing how to deal with stress • Maintaining your self-esteem and confidence • Family and friends • Remaining disease free

5. What is Physical Fitness? • Being physically fit means a person can do all of the things they want and need to do without feeling tired or strained • The two categories of fitness • General fitness • Specific fitness

6. What is Health? • Health is the overall and complete state of well-being • Physical health • Social health • Mental health • It is not just the absence of disease or not being sick

7. What is General Fitness? • Also known as health-related fitness • Required by everyone • It is needed to cope with the demands placed on people on a daily basis • It requires that people still have be able to meet any additional demands that might be placed on their bodies

8. What Are the Components of General Fitness? • Muscular Strength • Ability of a muscle to exert great force • Muscular Endurance • Ability to use muscles for a long time without having to stop • Cardiovascular Fitness • Having a strong heart and circulatory system • Stamina • Ability to keep doing something for a long time without having to stop • Flexibility • Ability to twist, bend, and stretch comfortably

9. What is Specific Fitness? • The part of fitness that allows people to perform specific skills with ease • Balance • Ability to control the body’s position • Power • Amount of force a muscle can exert • Agility • Ability to change direction and speed quickly and efficiently • Coordination • Combination of body movements that result in the desired movements • Reaction time • The time that elapses between a stimulus • and a person’s response to it • Speed • How quickly a person can do something

10. Sources • www.athletics.wikia.com • www.cbsnews.com • www.cdc.gov • www.dictionary.com • www.ezilon.com • www.finerhealth.com • www.fitnessthroughexercise.com • www.generalfitness.com • www.glencoe.com • www.gsu.edu • www.health.msn.com • www.healthandfitnessmag.com • www.healthtalknow.com • www.jaxmed.com • www.medicalhealthtoday.com • www.muscleandfitness.com • www.nhlbi.nih.gov • www.personaltrainertoday.com • www.plu.edu • www.sciencedaily.com • www.sensible-health-related-fitness.com • www.sharecare.com • www.webmd.com • www.wikipedia.org • World Book Encyclopedia • Your Health

11. Hope You Enjoyed the Slide Show! • Pictures by Parker J. E. Carte • Information by Parker J. E. Carte • Background by Parker J. E. Carte