Chapter 1
Physical Fitness & Wellness
1. Are you in control of your health?
2. Life expectancy vs healthy life expectancy
(SeDS)
3. Leading causes of death in the US
4. The big 3 negative lifestyle behaviors
5. Wellness =
6. Health-Related Fitness =
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Factors that determine our health and
longevity
• Three basic factors determine health and
longevity: Genetics, the environment, and
behavior
• Behavior (lifestyle choices) is the most important
factor affecting your health & well-being! (53%)
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Factors that affect health and wellbeing
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Life Expectancy vs. Healthy Life
Expectancy
• Average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78.2
years for men and 80.8 years for women.
• The World Health Organization (WHO)
calculated in 2000 that the healthy life
expectancy of the U.S. was ranked 38th in
the world
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Life Expectancy vs. Healthy Life
Expectancy
• Sedentary Death Syndrome (SeDS):
From lack of exercise #2 threat to health.
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ACSM/AHA Physical Activity and Public
Health Recommendations
• To promote and maintain good health all
healthy adults between the ages of 18 &
65 need:
– moderate- to vigorous-intensity aerobic
activity for a minimum of 30 minutes at
least five days a week
– activities that maintain or increase muscular
strength and endurance a minimum of
two days a week on nonconsecutive days
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Exercise Is Medicine
• Exercise is considered the much needed
vaccine to prevent chronic diseases
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Economic Benefits
• U.S. spends more on yearly health care per
person than any other industrialized nation
• Yet U.S. health care ranks 37th in the world
• One reason for low ranking is overemphasis on
state-of-the art cures instead of prevention
programs
• 95% health care dollars spent on treatment and
less than 5% spent on prevention
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Wellness
• Wellness: The constant and deliberate
effort to stay healthy and achieve the
highest potential for well-being; it
integrates seven dimensions
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The Dimensions of Wellness
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The Seven Dimensions of Wellness
• Physical wellness: Good physical fitness and
confidence in one’s personal ability to take care
of health problems
• Emotional wellness: The ability to understand
one’s own feelings, accept limitations, and
achieve emotional stability
• Mental wellness: A state in which one’s mind is
engaged in lively interaction with the surrounding
world; also called intellectual wellness
• Social wellness: The ability to relate well to
others, both within and outside the family unit
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The Seven Dimensions of Wellness
• Environmental wellness: The capability to live
in a clean and safe environment that is not
detrimental to health
• Occupational wellness: The ability to perform
one’s job skillfully and effectively under
conditions that provide personal and team
satisfaction and adequately reward each
individual
• Spiritual wellness: The sense that life is
meaningful, that life has purpose, and that some
power brings all humanity together; the ethics,
values, and morals that guide one and give
meaning and direction to life
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Health-related components of physical
fitness
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Behavior Modification Planning:
Healthy Lifestyle Habits
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Critical Thinking
• Do you consciously incorporate physical
activity into your daily lifestyle?
• Can you provide examples?
• Do you think you get sufficient daily
physical activity to maintain good health?
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Chapter 1
Physical Fitness & Wellness
1. Are you in control of your health?
2. Life expectancy vs healthy life expectancy
(SeDS)
3. Leading causes of death in the US
4. The big 3 negative lifestyle behaviors
5. Wellness =
6. Health-Related Fitness =
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Wellness Lifestyle Questionnaire
(Pages 31-33)
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