Transcript The Benefits of Exercise

Benefits of Physical
Activity
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What is Fitness?
Fitness means being fit.
What does it mean to be fit?
- Having energy for the whole day
- Being able to deal with stress
- Having self-confidence
- Maintaining healthy weight
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Identify definitions of being fit:
• Lazy teens
– need to be active teens
• Self-confidence
– yes, you will succeed
• Energy
– means being fit
• Overweight
– needs to get fit
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Physical Benefits of Exercise
• Strong muscles
• Strong coordination
• Healthy heart and lungs
• Healthy weight
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Identify Physical Benefits:
• Strong muscles
– excellent physical benefit
• Weak muscles
– benefit of not exercising
• Healthy heart
– important physical benefit
• Unhealthy lungs
– benefit of not exercising
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Mental benefits
• Exercise makes you feel energetic
• It relieves stress
• It gives you self-confidence
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Identify Mental Benefits:
• It relieves stress
– important mental benefit
• It gives you self-confidence
– important mental benefit
• It gives you the feeling of tiredness
– false mental benefit
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Social Benefits
• Exercise allows you to meet new
people
• Friends encourage you
• Friends motivate
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Identify Social Benefits:
• Motivation
– very helpful social benefit
• New friends
– exciting social benefit
• “You can’t do it!”
– negative and false social benefit
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Develop Muscle Strength
Strength means being physically strong
To develop strength, you pull or push
against force
Example:
- Lifting weights
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Develop Endurance
Endurance means that your muscles can
work for a long period of time without
getting tired
To build endurance you must exercise
several times a week for 30 minutes
Example:
- Aerobic exercise
- Running
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Develop Flexibility
Flexibility is the ability to move your joint
through full range of motion
Stretching exercises will develop flexibility
Examples:
- Yoga
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Strength and Endurance
What will lifting weights will improve?
- Muscle strength
What will swimming improve for your
body?
- Muscle endurance
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Flexibility – Feel and Look Good
What will yoga improve for your body?
- Flexibility
If you will exercise on the regular basis,
how will you feel and look?
- Feel energetic and look good
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