© folens 2009 for edexcel 1.1.3 exercise and fitness as part of your healthy, active lifestyle...

© Folens 2009FOR EDEXCEL1.1.3 Exercise and fitness as part of your healthy, active lifestyle

Health, fitness and exercise 1

Health, fitness and exercise


What you will learn about in this topic:

1. The definition of health, fitness and exercise

2. The comparisons between health and fitness

3. The effects of a lack of exercise



Learning objectives

By the end of this presentation you should be able to:

•Understand the terms health, fitness and exercise

•Describe each of these terms

•Explain how a lack of exercise affects performance



Definition of health

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as:

‘a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease

or infirmity’.



Definition of fitness

The ability to meet the demands of the environment and still have energy left.



Definition of exercise


An activity requiring physical effort that helps to sustain or improve your health and fitness.


To maintain a level of general fitness, you should try to:

•Exercise three to five times a week

• Increase your heart rate to above 60 per cent of your maximum

•Keep your heart rate raised for no less than 20 minutes in each session




Physical well-being

Mental well-being

Social well-being

Being healthy involves deloping these components


•Fitness is to do with the physical, so your body may be functioning at a peak but the other aspects of health may not be present.

•Mental is to do with how well you concentrate, think things through and approach life.

•Social is to do with how well you interact, cooperate and deal with other people.



In order to be healthy you have to be physically fit.

But as well as exercising in order to develop the physical component, you also need to be socially and mentally well-adjusted in order to be healthy.



If the social and mental components are lacking or underdeveloped you could still be physically fit but not classed as healthy.

Exercise is the link between health and fitness.



Effects of lack of exercise•Weight increase

•Less flexibility

•Become breathless sooner

•Aerobic capacity is reduced

•Loss of strength



Task

Using ICT, create a poster showing the relationship between health, fitness and exercise.



Exam questions1. Health is:A. The ability to meet the demands of

the environment

B. Working towards improving all areas of the body

C. A state of complete physical fitness and calmness

D.A state of physical, mental and social well-being




What you have learntin this topic:

1. The definition of health, fitness and exercise

2. The comparisons between health and fitness

3. The effects of a lack of exercise



Learning objectives

You should now be able to:

•Understand the terms health, fitness and exercise

•Describe each of these terms

•Explain how a lack of exercise affects performance

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