Advanced Health

1.3 Health and Well-Being

Health Standard Met (1)

Personal Fitness 

Physical fitness has been defined as the body’s ability to carry out daily tasks and still have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands. But exercise is not the only way to improve your fitness. Participating in sports or other action oriented activities such as dancing, yoga and ti chi also are effective ways of staying fit. While regular exercise contributes to physical fitness, it does not make a person personally fit. To develop your personal fitness goals, you must remember to focus also on your lifestyle choices.

· Maintain acceptable levels of physical fitness.

· Participate in regular physical activity

· Eat nutritious foods.

· Sleep 8 to 9 hours per night

· Have regular medical check ups

· Maintain an appropriate weight

· Avoid harmful substances such a tobacco and drugs.

· When you can legally drink and if you choose to drink alcohol, drink in moderation

· Protect yourself from disease

Directions:

1. Click the link below to view the "Staying Healthy Pictures" slideshow

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/preventive-care/staying-healthy-pictures.htm

2. Interview 2 people and ask them what benefits, other than physical, they have received from exercise.  Keep notes on their responses. 
3. In this assignment, discuss the results from your interviews and discuss what benefits, other than physical, you have noticed personally after exercising.

If you have any difficulty answering these questions, you may wish to also view the video The Importance of Exercise for Good Health on Discovery Ed Streaming. To view this clip, click on the Discovery Ed Steaming web-site. Once you are in the site type in Live Right, Grow Right: It's the Only Body You've Got under the search to pull up the video you are to watch. Once you get to the video you are going to watch the The Importance of Exercise for Good Health clip.