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| a state of optimal health achieved by living a healthy lifestyle |
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| six components of wellness |
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| physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and environmental |
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| Main goals of Healthy People 2020 |
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| help individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve quality of life. to eliminate health disparities among the different segments of the population (based on gender, race/ethnicity, education, income, and disability) |
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| any movement of the body produced by a skeletal muscle that results in energy expenditure, especially through movement of large muscle groups |
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| planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of fitness |
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| cardiovascular disease (CVD) |
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| any disease of the heart and blood vessels |
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| a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose levels. Chronic elevation of blood glucose is associated with increased incidence of heart disease, kidney disease, nerve dysfunction, and eye damage. |
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| a condition that results from the loss of bone mass and strength |
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| cardiorespiratory endurance |
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| a measure of the heart's ability to pump oxygen-rich blood to the working muscles during exercise and of the muscles' ability to take up and use the oxygen. |
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| Health related physical fitness consists of five components: |
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| cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition |
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| the maximal ability of a muscle to generate force |
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| the ability of a muscle to generate a submaximal force over and over again |
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| the ability to move joints freely through their full range of motion |
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| the relative amounts of fat and fat-free tissue (muscle, organs, bone) found in the body |
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| A framework for understanding how individuals move toward adopting and maintaining health behavior changes |
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| breaking a behavior or task into small steps to accomplish the larger goal |
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| a basic principle of physical conditioning that states that in order to improve physical fitness, the body or specific muscles must be stressed |
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| a principle of training that states that overload should be increased gradually |
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| the training intensity or duration of exercise should not be increased by more than 10% per week |
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| exercising to sustain a desired level of physical fitness |
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| the effect of exercise training is specific to those muscles involved in the activity |
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| principle of recuperation |
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| the body requires recovery periods between exercise training sessions to adapt to the exercise stress. Therefore a period of rest is essential for achieving maximal benefit from exercise. |
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| the result of failure to get enough rest between training sessions |
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| principle of reversibility |
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| the loss of fitness due to inactivity |
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| the individualized amount of exercise that will effectively promote physical fitness for a given person |
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| the specific type of exercise to be performed |
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| a brief (5-15 minute) period of exercise that precedes a workout |
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| the number of times per week that one exercises |
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| the amount of physiological stress or overload placed on the body during exercise |
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| the amount of time invested in performing the primary workout |
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| a 5 to 15 minute period of low-intensity exercise that immediately follows the primary conditioning period; sometimes called a warm-down |
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| threshold for health benefits |
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| the minimum level of physical activity required to achieve some of the health benefits of exercise |
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