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Ideal health or wellness. |
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The ability to handle the work and play of everyday life without becoming tired. |
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Requirements of Physical Fitness |
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Eat a well-balanced diet. Participate in regular physical activity. Get at least 9 hours of sleep every night. Have regular health screenings. Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. Understand and follow school rules related to health. Avoid unneccessary risks. |
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Body Systems Involved in Physical Fitness |
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The circulatory system, the respiratory system, the muscular system, and the skeletal system. |
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Recommended Frequency for Exercise |
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5 times a week for 30 minutes. |
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Intense physical activity that requires little oxygen but involves short bursts of energy. |
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Helps build strength and muscle endurance. Examples are weight lifting and sprinting. |
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Rythmic, non-stop moderate-to-vigorous activity that requires large amounts of oxygen and works the heart. |
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Builds heart and lung endurance. Examples are walking, jogging, swimming, and bicycling. |
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Organized physical activity with specific rules, played by opposing groups of people. |
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Gentle exercise you do to prepare your muscles for moderate-to-vigorous activity. |
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10 minutes of easy aerobic exercises that helps blood flow to the muscles and become more flexible, and gradually increases heart rate. |
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What you do after the warm-up and cool-down that increases and maintains flexibility. |
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Gentle exercises that let your body adjust to ending a workout. |
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Gentle exercises that let your body adjust to ending a workout. |
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5-10 minutes of a slowed pace of your workout, and drinking fluids. Helps muscles not to tighten and brings circulation and temperature back to normal. |
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A goal you plan to reach over an extended period of time. |
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A goal you can reach in a short amount of time. |
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Excessive loss of water from the body. |
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Exercising too hard or too often without enough rest in between sessions. |
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A crack in a bone from repeated pressure and overuse. |
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A sport you can do throughout your life. Examples are walking and bicycling. Non-examples are basketball and gymnastics. |
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Being 10% over your ideal weight. |
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A way to assess your body size, taking your height and weight into account. |
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How long a person is estimated to live. |
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