CHAPTER 12

LESSON 1

EXERCISING FACTS AND RISKS

• Physical activity can relief stress, enhance mood, strenthen sleep, and improve self esteem.
• Phyisical activities can help build friendships and help improve your health.
• Risks of not exercising include obesity, dietbetes, cancer, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, depresstion, and death.
• Staying active everyday for at least 60 total minutes is important to staying alive and healthy longer.
• Physical activity is and form of movement that involves your body using energy.

LESSON 2

LIFTING AND GETTING FIT

• It is important to know how fit you are so you can find out if you need to become more fit.
• Here are some fitness tests you can do to determine how fit you are.
• Tests: Cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
• There are two different forms of exercise : aerobic and anaerbic.
• The three ways your body uses resistance are isometric exercises, isotonic exercises, isokinetic exercises.

LESSON 3

PERSONAL ACTIVITY PROGRAM (TYPES OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDE STRENGTH, FLEXIBILITY, AEROBIC, AND MODERATE INTENSITY)

• Identifying your fitness goal is a good way to find motivation for you to get in shape.
• When making a personal activity program, consider your personal needs, in a realistic manner.
• Such as costs, where you live, your schedule, your fitness level, your overall health, and your personal saftey.
• There are different stages of a work out, including the warm up, the work out, and the cool down.
• Principles of Building fitness are specifty, overload, progression, and regularity. Balance here is key.

LESSON 4

EXERCISE SAFTEY (DRINK PLENTY OF WATER)

• Ways to protect your selve in exercise include use of the correct saftey equipment, paying attention to other people
• objects and weather, know your level and dont go too far past your limit, warm up before and cool down after
• exercises, obey all restictions, limits, and rules, and practice good sportsmanship.
• Injurries with activities can include frostbite, hypothermia, overexertion, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, muscle cramp,
• strains, blisters, sprains, fractures, dislocations, concussions windburn, sunburn, and skin cancer.

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