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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| optimal health and vitality | wellness |
| Dimensions of wellness | Physical wellness Emotional wellness Intellectual wellness Spiritual wellness Interpersonal and social wellness Environmental, or planetary, wellness |
| Leading Cause of Death Overall | Heart disease |
| Second leading cause of death in US | cancer |
| Leading cause of death for ages 15–24 | unintentional injuries |
| Physical activity | any body movement carried out by the skeletal muscles and requiring energy |
| Exercise | planned, structured, repetitive movement of the body designed to improve or maintain physical fitness |
| Physical fitness | a set of physical attributes that allows the body to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort |
| Health-related fitness | physical capacities that contribute to health |
| Cardiorespiratory endurance | the ability of the body to perform prolonged, large-muscle, dynamic exercise at moderate-to-high levels of intensity. |
| Muscular strength | the amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort |
| Muscular endurance | the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to remain contracted or to contract repeatedly |
| Flexibility | the ability to move joints through their full range of motion |
| Body composition | the proportion of fat and fat-free mass (muscle, bone, and water) in the body |
| FITT principle | Frequency—How often Intensity—How hard Time—How long (duration) Type—Mode of activity |
| Mesomorph | muscular |
| Ectomorph | thin, slight of build |
| Endomorph | rounded body type, may be plump |
| the major 'currency' of energy in the body | ATP |
| maximum heart rate (MHR) | 220 – your age = MHR |
| Dehydration | excessive loss of fluid |
| Heat exhaustion | = heat illness related to dehydration from exertion in hot weather |
| Heat stroke | a severe and often fatal heat illness characterized by significantly elevated core body temperature |
| Managing minor exercise injuries: RICE | Rest Ice Compression Elevation |
| Essential fat | crucial for normal body functioning |
| Too little body fat for women | Less than 10–12% |
| Too little body fat for men | Less than 5% |