Physical Exercise
The sport of racing on foot.
Benefits: heart health, weight management, maintaining muscle tone, increasing bone density, and improving immune function.
What is running?
This is a visual art, characterized by the practice of applying pigment, color, or other medium to a solid surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush.
Benefits: Help to process emotions, improve personal fulfillment, boost creativity, and reduce anxiety and stress.
What is painting?
This term has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.
Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping.
As an experience it usually emphasizes dimensions of perceived freedom and choice. It is done for "its own sake", for the quality of experience and involvement.
What is leisure?
These types of exercises can be used at any time to calm the nervous system, even while working or in a stressful environment.
What are breathing exercises?
This leisure activity includes physical exercise in the form of gameplay. It has a variety of forms from two player to well over 22 players.
Benefits: enhances muscles, flexibility, improves overall health, fosters friendships, communication skills, teaches time management, and discipline.
What is playing sports?
The most popular sport globally, with a massive fan base and extensive media coverage.
Benefits: Improved coordination and agility. Stress reduction, releases endorphins for natural mood lifting, and builds friendships and communication.
What is soccer/futball?
The activity of moving for enjoyment or to entertain others.
Benefits: Heart health, built muscle, improve balance, and improve flexibility.
What is dancing?
These are the two types of leisure, defined by length of time with one lasting up to an hour and the other lasting longer than an hour.
What are breathers and restorers?
This breather can reduce the risk of heart disease, lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels, lower symptoms of anxiety and depression, and aid in digestion.
What is going on a walk?
This leisure activity is common for military members in their free time. It can be done as a solo activity or with multiple people and typically involves a television and a console/PC.
Benefits: cognitive improvement, enhanced problem solving skills, improved hand-eye coordination, and can reduce stress.
What is playing video games?
A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.
What is yoga?
A professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
Benefits: Decrease stress hormones, promote feeling of well-being, pain relief, and boosting the immune system.
What is comedy?
This is the term for an activity done for enjoyment when one is not working.
What is recreation?
This leisure skill featuring a script being read to music can be used for relaxation and video facilitations can be found online ranging from 6 minutes to an hour.
What is guided meditation?
This leisure activity is more lower body focused at its basic levels. It involves walking or running a long way through landscapes like the woods, mountains, or oceanside.
Benefits: Boosted immunity, heart health, enhanced mood, and muscle strengthening.
What is hiking?
A training protocol alternating short periods of intense or explosive anaerobic exercise with brief recovery periods until the point of exhaustion
What is Hight-intensity interval training (HIIT)?
This type of art is known for using living organisms or organic materials as part of the artwork can create pieces that change color or shape over time, challenging traditional notions of art's permanence.
These mediums not only provide new textures and colors but also tell stories that traditional paints and canvases sometimes can't capture. They encourage experimentation and innovation, pushing the boundaries of what we consider art.
What is Bio-Art?
When setting goals, this is one way to ensure that you are able to review whether you are meeting your objectives and on track.
What is making them measurable?
This mindfulness technique engages breathing in combination with tensing and releasing your muscles. Typically it is facilitated from the head down to the feet or the feet up to the head in one direction.
What is a progressive muscles relaxation (PMR)?
This leisure activity involves low impact exercise that is great for longevity while also working out all muscles at the same time.
Benefits: Cardiovascular health, weight management, stress relief and improved sleep
What is swimming?
A specialized form of suspension training that utilizes equipment developed by former U.S. Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick.
This is a form of suspension training that uses body weight exercises to develop strength, balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously.
What is Total Resistance Exercises (TRX)?
An ancient textile art form that uses natural dyes and wax, creating intricate patterns and designs particularly popular in Indonesia.
What is Batik?
This organization and location provides the following to Navy and Marines:
Fitness Programs
Recreation and Community Support
Entertainment
Child and Youth Programs
What is the MWR?
This activity is in alignment with your daily assignments at SARP and scientifically proven benefits include: stress reduction, improvement in well being, improvement in cognitive functioning, and even calming the amygdala (the brain's center for fear and stress responses).
What is Journaling?
This leisure activity has been proven to increase neuroplasticity while engaging all parts of the brain at the same time. It involves reading, translating into movement, and resulting creation.
What is playing an instrument?