HE101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stroke Volume, Body Composition, Aerobic Exercise
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Physical acivity: body movements produced by skeletal muscles resuling in energy expenditure: wide range of physical, social and mental health beneits. Physical acivity: for health, itness, for performance. Physical fitness: achieved when the systems of the body are healthy and funcion eiciently so as to resist disease to enable the it person to engage in vigorous tasks and leisure aciviies and to handle situaions of emergency . Health related fitness: itness as it pertains to disease prevenion and health promoion: decreased risk of death and disease. Overall objecive: increase ability to perform daily aciviies with energy, heart, lungs, muscles able to sustain a higher level of acivity for a longer period of ime, with less efort, decrease risk of injury and illness. For adults 18 to 64 years: 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic physical aciviies week, in bouts of 10 minutes or more. For 12 to 17 years: 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic physical aciviies.
