Health Wellness Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aerobic | Nonstop, repetitive, strenuous physical activity that increases the breathing and heart rates. Improves cardiovascular and muscular endurance; maintains health of circulatory and respiratory systems |
| Anaerobic | Intense physical activity during which muscles use up more oxygen than the blood can supply. Improves flexibility, improves strength, and sometimes improves speed at which muscles work. |
| Isotonic | Exercise in which muscles contract and relax through the full range of their motion. Develops muscle strength. |
| Isometric | Exercise in which muscles contract without much body movement. Develops muscle strength. |
| Isokinetic | Exercise in which muscles move through a range of motion against a resistance or weight. Enables use of specific muscle groups after illness of injury; develops muscle strength. |
| Triangle of Health | Physical, Mental, and Social health |
| Physical Health | How well your body functions; Healthy diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, proper medical and dental care. |
| Mental Health | How well you feel about yourself and how you deal with day to day demands; relaxing, trying new experiences, sharing your feelings. |
| Social | How well you get along with others; relationship with family members, making and keeping friends, communication. |
| Risk factor | Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome. |
| 3 Risk Factors | Hereditary, Environmental, Behavioral |
| Heredity | All traits passed biologically from parent to child. |
| Disability | Any physical or mental impairment that limits or reduces a person's ability to participate in normal activities. |
| Environmental Risk Factors | All physical and social conditions surrounding a person and influences they have on the person. Physical, Social, and Cultural. |
| Behavioral Risk Factors | Results from your actions and decisions. |
| Components of Fitness | Cardio-respiratory, Muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, body composition |
| Cardiorespiratory | Endurance; ability of your heart, blood vessels and lungs to distribute nutrients and oxygen and to remove waste |
| Muscle strength | capacity of muscles to exert or resist a force |
| Muscle endurance | Ability for muscles to work for and extended period of time; # of times you can lift the weight. |
| flexibility | ability to use the muscle throughout its entire range of motion; Bending and stretching joints |
| body composition | Amount of fat compared to lean tissue, such as muscle and bone. |
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