Physical fitness

exercise

sedantary

a. Physical benefits

A

c. Reduced stress

C

Physical activity can improve your social life in the following ways:
1. Physical activities reduce your stress levels and improve your mood, which in turn, allow you to interact well with others.
2. Physical activities can help you make new friends or spend time with them.
3. Physical activities can help you improve your teamwork and cooperation with other people.
4. Physical activities can improve your self-esteem. When you feel confident about yourself, it is easy to deal and socialize with other people.

– Do alternatives to the easier activities like using the stairs instead of elevators or escalators.

– Do the activities you like to do so that it does not feel like a burden.

Fit the activity in your schedule.

If you are part of a sport group, you work together to achieve a common goal. If you know you are physically fit because of the sport you chose, it increases your self-esteem. It also releases stress and improves sleep better as the circulation gets better.

The health triangle are related when one improves physical fitness.

cardiorespiratory endurance

Flexibility

anaerobic exercise

a. The time it takes to run or walk a mile

A

c. 94 to 159 beats per minute

C

d. stretching exercises

D

Doing curl-ups would improve your muscle strength, particularly in your abdominal muscles. It can also improve your body composition by reducing the fats in your body. Other activities that can improve the overall fitness of your body includes running, swimming, biking, Tabata training, lifting weights, and doing yoga and pilates.

Aerobic exercises improves your cardiorespiratory endurance as it makes the muscles work for long periods of time while anaerobic exercises improves your muscle strength as it uses short bouts of intense activity.

Anaerobic and aerobic exercises

Swimming does increase bone mass but not by much as other activities that relies heavily on gravity. There is an increase in bone creation as muscle strands are created.

Swimming increases bone mass.

warm-up

work out

Resting heart rate

b. three times a week for 20 minutes

B

c. Progression

C

d. while cooling down

D

The teen will only feel that she is obliged to do it and the plan will fail. If she does not enjoy doing the activity, she will only feel it is burdensome. It may just cause stress for her.

The plan will fail.

The four elements of the FITT formula are frequency of workouts, intensity of workouts, type of activity, and time or duration of workouts. These elements help you better plan the workouts that you would execute in order to help you become more active and more fit. Having these things in mind would help increase the efficiency of your workout routine.

Both the resting heart rate and active heart rate decreases as fitness level increases.

Heatstroke

Frostbite

sprains

c. Hypothermia

C

a. muscle cramps

A

d. sprain

D

Skating or skateboarding safety equipment includes helmet, knee and elbow pads, wrist guards, and gloves.

Dehydration or the loss of body water can make you exhausted and overexertion can cause heat exhaustion when the body overheats.

Sun’s heat cause dehydration and overexertion.

P.R.I.C.E. for injuries