Activities
In between walking and jogging and is very good for the joints
What is brisk walking?
The largest organ in the body
What is skin?
Activity that gets you breathing harder and your heart beating faster
What is aerobic physical activity or cardio?
The amount of time someone over the age of 65 should engage in exercise a week.
What is 2.5 hours?
The two essential components of National Senior Health and Fitness Day
What is eating healthy and exercising?
Performance of aerobic exercise in water
What is water aerobics or aqua fitness?
The part of the body that makes up a "six pack" appearance.
What is the abdomen?
Type of exercise that breaks down glucose in the body without using oxygen (aerobic or anaerobic)
What is anaerobic exercise?
This type of exercise helps with weight and fat loss and includes activities such as running and biking.
What is endurance/cardio?
“Feel good” hormones that get released by your nervous system after a great workout
What are endorphins?
Dance class that features high and low intensity intervals that help improve cardiovascular fitness, balance, and coordination.
What is Zumba?
The percentage of the body that is consumed by water
What is 66 percent?
Riding a bike is an example of this type of activity (aerobic or anaerobic)
What is Aerobic Activity?
BONUS! Your favorite type of exercise!
What is __________?
The nation's largest health and wellness event for seniors.
What is National Senior Health and Fitness Day?
A game resembling tennis in which players use paddles to hit a perforated plastic ball over a net
What is pickleball?
Muscle that people usually try to enlarge by lifting weights.
What are biceps?
Sprinting is an example of this exercise (anaerobic exercise)
What is anaerobic exercise?
Activity that helps loosen muscle and improve posture.
What is stretching?
This company, founded in 2007 in San Francisco, is perhaps best known for step counting.
What is FitBit?
Activity based on the idea that we should be working all the muscles of the body together, in the way that they should be functionally engaging for really healthy alignment and really healthy human movement.
What is pilates?
The largest and heaviest muscle in the body.
What is the gluteus maximus?
Walking to the store is an example of this (aerobic or anaerobic)
What is aerobic activity?
Exercises that will NOT help build bone and prevent fractures
What is swimming?
Required in aerobic respiration but not required in anaerobic respiration
What is oxygen?