Health and human dynamics
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- Wellness
- the expanded idea of health. Any dimension is not a static goal but a dynamic process of change and growth
- Six dimensions of wellness
- Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal and social, and environmental
- Guidelines for amount of physical activity needed (time and calories) to sustain health and fitness:
- Recommended activity most days a week expending 150 calories a day or 1000 a week
- 5 components of physical fitness
- Cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition
- Benefits of performing a warm-up prior to exercising
- decrease your chance of injury by helping your body gradually progress from rest to activity, increase muscle temperature, reduce joint stiffness, bathe flow to the muscles including the heart
- Systolic
- the period of the heart’s contraction
- Diastolic
- the period of relaxation
- VO2 max: maximal oxygen consumption
- determined by genetics and fitness status: the limit to the body’s ability to increase the transport and use of oxygen.
- Target HR zone guidelines
- rates you should exercise to experience the cardio benefits between 65%-90% of your max heart rate
- Muscular strength
- the ability to generate force during a maximal effort
- Muscular endurance
- the ability to resist fatigue while holding or repeating a muscular contraction
- Benefits of performing muscular strength and endurance programs
- : injury prevention, body composition, self-image, lifetime muscle and bone health, and chronic disease prevention
- Concentric muscle contractions
- an isotonic contraction in which the muscle gets shorter as it contracts
- Eccentric muscle contractions
- An isotonic contraction in which the muscle lengthens as it contracts; aka pliometric contraction
- Static stretching
- a technique in which a muscle is slowly and gently stretched and then held in the stretched position