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Wellness
- = Healthy living
- More than absence of disease
- Def: Special lifestyle that enhances ones probability of living a full, productive, and enjoyable life.
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Practicing Positive Lifestyle Choices
- Exercise regularly
- Practice healthy nutrition
- Good emotional health
- Good spiritual health
By doing this you eliminate unhealthy behaviors
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Changing Times: Causes of Death
- Early 1900's - Infectious Diseases *Pheumonia and Influenze*
- Late 1900's until Now - Lifestyle Disease *Heart diseases and Cancer*
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Adopt A Healthy Lifestyle
- Premature death still occurs despite advances in medical technology
- Make positive lifestyle choices
- Decrease risk of lifestyle diseases
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Steps to Adopt A Healthy Lifestyle
- Increase knowledge about health and wellness
- Assess lifestyle habits honestly
- Identify habits that need to be changed
- Set realistic objectives
- Implement planned changes
- Monitor the consistency of changes
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Dimensions of Wellness
- 1. Physical Health - Not sick and physical fit
- 2. Emotional Health - Emotionally stable
- 3. Intellectual Health - Keep mind active
- 4. Spiritual Health - Appreciating the beauty around you
- 5. Social Health - Meaningful interpersonal relationships
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Wellness Continuum
- Optimal Wellness
- Good Health
- Average Health
- Signs of Illness
- Symptoms of Illness
- Reversible Disability
- Irreversible Disability
- Premature Health
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The Exercise Connection
- Exercise is good for you
- Reduces risk of some lifestyle diseases
- Can be readily integrated into daily habits
- *But it does not guarantee good health
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Physical Fitness - Skill Related Physical Fitness
- Balance
- Speed
- Power
- Agility
- Coordination
- Reaction Time
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Physical Fitness - Health Related Physical Fitness
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Aerobic Fitness, Cardiovascular Fitness, Cardiorespiratory Endurance
- Muscular Strength
- Muscular Endurance
- Flexibility
- Body Composition
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness
- Depends on 3 body systems and oyxgen: Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Muscular
- Ability to perform endurance exercise
- Good CFR: Exercising vigorously for 30 to 60 minutes without problems
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Muscular Strength
- Max ability to generate force
- Measured by 1 RM
- Greater the strength, easier the task
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Muscular Endurance
- Ability to generate force repeatedly
- Measured by repeated contractions
- Important for ease in everyday tasks
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Muscular Flexibility
- Ability to move joint through full range of motion (ROM) without pain
- Decreases risk of pain and injury
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Body Composition
- Relative amount of fat tissue and lean tissue
- Too much fat = obesity and increased risk of health problems
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Hypokinetic
- = too little or no activity - sedentary life
- Increases hypokinetic disease risk
- Hypokinetic diseases decrease quality of life: heart disease,, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity, and certain cancers
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Exercise Reduces Risks Of:
- Heart Disease: by strengthening the heart
- Hypertension: by lowering blood pressure
- Diabetes: by regulating blood glucose levels
- Osteoporosis: by increasing bone mass/density
- Certain Cancers
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Ultimate Goal of Wellness
- Increase quality of life - decrease premature death
- Increase quality of life - increase independent life; decrease morbidity: time spent depending on others for care
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