BPK 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cardiovascular Disease, Osteoporosis, Cardiorespiratory Fitness

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Biomedical Physio & Kines
• Course: BPK 140
• Professor: Andrew Blaber

Document Summary

Physical activity is one of the best things you can do to minimize your risk of disease and promote overall health. In order to make physical activity a consistent part of your life, find actives you enjoy doinh. Physical activity: all leisure and non-leisure body movement produced by the skeletal muscles and resulting in an increase in energy expenditure. Exercise: planned, structured, repetitive physical activity aimed at improving physical fitness. Sport: form of leisure-time physical activity that is planned, structured, and competitive. Active living: way of life in which physical activity is valued and integrated into daily living. The ability to respond to routine physical demands with enough reserve energy to cope with a sudden challenge. Health-related components include: cardiorespiratory fitness (aerobic fitness) or endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body composition. First physician to prescribe moderate daily exercise to his patients. Concern: individuals who consumed too much food, slept too long, and remained sedentary.