Physical Activity and Your Health
Any form of movement that causes your body to use energy.
What is Physical Activity?
The amount of force a muscle can exert
Frequency, Intensity, Time/duration, and Type of activity
What is F.I.T.T.?
What is a Training Program?
A condition in which the body loses the ability to rid itself of excess heat through perspiration.
What is Heatstroke?
The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands.
What is Physical Fitness?
The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to utilize and send fuel and oxygen to the body's tissues during long periods of moderate-to-vigorous activity.
Working the body harder than it is normally worked.
What is Overload?
Taking in fluids so that the body functions properly
What is hydration?
A condition in which body temperature becomes dangerously low.
What is Hypothermia?
A way of life that involves little physical activity
What is a sedentary lifestyle?
Purposeful physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive and that improves or maintains personal fitness.
What is exercise?
An activity that prepares the muscles for work
What is a Warm-Up?
Synthetic substances that are similar to the male hormone testosterone.
A spasm or sudden tightening of a muscle.
What is a Muscle Cramp?
A condition characterized by a decrease in bone density, producing porous and fragile bones.
What is osteoporosis?
The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including muscle, bone, water, and connective tissue such as ligaments, cartilage, and tendons.
What is Body Composition?
An activity that prepares the muscles to return to a resting state.
What is a Cool-Down?
A search or check for diseases or disorders that an individual would otherwise not have knowledge of or seek help for.
What is a Health Screening?
An injury to the ligament surrounding a joint.
What is a Sprain?
The process by which your body gets energy from food
What is metabolism?
Intense short bursts of activity in which the muscles work so hard that they produce energy without using oxygen.
What is Anaerobic Exercise?
The number of times your heart beats in one minute when you are not active
What is your Resting Heart Rate?
Helmets, elbow/knee pads, mask, cups, vests, headlamps, reflective tape, gloves, goggles, proper footwear, nonrestrictive clothing, etc.
What does R.I.C.E. stand for?
R- Rest
I- Ice
C- Compression
E- Elevation