Health Flashcards
Definition of exercise?
A form of physical activity which maintains or improves health and or physical fitness.
Definition of health?
A state of complete mental, physical and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Hypo kinetic diseases
When you don’t have a good healthy active lifestyle. Because lack exercise. You can get heart disease, high blood pressure and back pain.
How can you relive hypo kinetic diseases?
Regular exercise participation.
Definition of fitness?
The ability to meet the demand of the environment. Eg. If you are a postman you need to be able to walk a lot.
Definition of Performance?
How well a task is completed.
Is it possible to be fit but not healthy?
It is possible, many sportsmen suffer debilitating injuries. Dame Kelly Homes missed the Atlant only,pics in 1996 because of illness.
?
If you don’t exercise you can’t get fitter, therefore you health won’t benefit from it.