Chapter 1: Physical Fitness & Wellness

Slower heart rate than normal

Bradycardia

The ability of the lungs, heart, and blood vessels to deliver adequate amounts of oxygen to the cells to meet the demands of prolonged physical activity

Cardiorespiratory endurance

The array of conditions that affect the heart (cardio-) and the blood vessels (-vascular)

Cardiovascular disease

Illnesses that develop as a result of an unhealthy lifestyle and last a long time

Chronic diseases

A disease in which plague builds up in the arteries that supply blood to the heart

Coronary heart disease (CHD)

Pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries during the relaxation phase (diastole) of the heart

Diastolic blood pressure (DBP)

The ability to understand your own feelings, except your limitations, and achieve emotional stability

Emotional wellness

The capability to live in a clean and safe environment, that is not detrimental to health

Environmental wellness

A type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement with the intent of improving or maintaining one or more components of physical fitness

Exercise

The lowest fitness requirements for maintaining good health, decreasing the risk for chronic diseases, and lowering the incidence of muscular-skeletal injuries

Health fitness standards

Fitness programs prescribed to improve the individuals overall health

Health related fitness

Damage to an area of the myocardium (heart muscle) that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to a blockage of a diseased coronary artery

Heart attack

Illnesses related to lack of physical activity

Hypokinetic diseases

Any activity that uses less than 150 cal of energy per day

Light physical activity

A state in which your mind is engaged in lively interaction with the world around you

Mental wellness

A measurement of plasma, insulin, glucose, lipid, and lipoprotein levels to assess risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Metabolic profile

Activity that uses 150 cal of energy per day or 1000 cal per week

Moderate physical activity

A condition related to or caused by illness or disease

Morbidity

Energy expended doing every day activities not related to exercise

Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)

The ability to perform your job, skillfully and effectively under conditions that provide personal and team satisfaction and adequately reward each individual

Occupational wellness

Bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles, which requires expenditure of energy and produces progressive health benefits

Physical activity

The ability to meet the ordinary, as well as unusual, demands of daily life safely and effectively without being overly fatigued, and still have energy left for leisure and recreational activities

Physical fitness

A fitness level that allows a person to sustain moderate to vigorous physical activity without undo fatigue and ability to closely maintain this level throughout life

Physical fitness standards

Good physical fitness and confidence in your personal ability to take care of health problems

Physical wellness

Lifestyle and genetic variables that may lead to disease

Risk factors

Description of a person who is relatively inactive and whose lifestyle is characterized by a lot of sitting

Sedentary

Cause of deaths attributed to a lack of regular physical activity

Sedentary death syndrome (SeDS)

The type of muscle that powers body movement

Skeletal muscle

Fitness components important for success in skillful activities and athletic events; encompasses agility, balance, coordination, reaction time, speed, and power

Skill related fitness

The ability to relate well to others, both within and outside the family unit

Social wellness

The sense that life is a meaningful. It has purpose, and that some power brakes all humanity together.

Spiritual wellness

A condition in which a blood vessel that feeds the brain is clogged, leading to blood flow disruption to the brain

Stroke

Pressure exerted by blood against walls of arteries during forceful contraction (systole) of the heart

Systolic blood pressure (SBP)

Any exercise that requires a MET level equal to or greater than 6 METs (21mL/kg/min). One MET is the energy expenditure at rest, 3.5 mL/kg/min, and METs are defined as multiples of this resting metabolic rate.

Vigorous physical activity

The constant in deliberate effort to stay healthy and achieve the highest potential for well-being. Seven dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental, occupational, and spiritual

Wellness