PHYSICAL FITNESS
AND WELLNESS
Module 1
OBJECTIVES
Define and explain aspects of physical fitness and wellness
List several factors that impact physical fitness
Explain what it means to live healthily
Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits of physical fitness and
wellness:
Create a physical fitness personal plan and a wellness plan for healthy living.
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PHYSICAL FITNESS
Refers to your body systems capacity to function
effectively together allow you to be healthy and
perform daily living activities.
According to MIT Medical Center promotion and
wellness, physical fitness is the human body what fine-
tuning is to engine. It enables us to perform up to our
potential.
DUFFY (2017)
1. Energy to do what is important 4. The chance to look and feel your
to you and to be more best.
productive. 5. Physical strength and endurance
2. Stamina and a positive outlook to accomplish physical challenges.
to handle the mental challenges 6. A better chance for higher
and emotional ups and downs of quality of life and perhaps a longer
everyday life and deal with life.
stress.
3. Reduced risk for many health
problems, such as heart disease,
cancer, diabetes, and
osteoporosis
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NOTE
It is important to remember that health is an individual attribute
that varies from person to person.
Age
Sex
Heredity
Lifestyle patterns
Exercise
Eating habits
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WELLNESS
Is the act of consistently practicing healthy habits to achieve
better physical and mental health results, so you prosper
while living, rather than just living.
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WELLNESS
WHO, wellness is the state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity”
National Wellness Institute defines wellness as “conscious,
self-directed and evolving process of achieving full
potential.
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THE NINE (9) DIMENSIONS OF
WELLNESS
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THE NINE (9) DIMENSIONS OF
WELLNESS
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THE NINE (9) DIMENSIONS OF
WELLNESS
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TRAINING CONCEPTS AND
METHOLODGIES
Specificity- The training must be customized the needs of the sport to improve fitness in
the affected body parts
Overload- Only by training more than usual can fitness be enhanced. You must exert
considerate effort.
Progression- Start slowly and then gradually increase the amount of exercise you perform,
while maintaining overloading
Reversibility- adaptation that occurs because of exercise will be reversed when you ceased
training. You will lose fitness if you take a break or do not work out frequently enough
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FITT PRINCIPLE
How often you would like to
Frequency
train
How hard you want to work
Intensity
out.
Time Choose how long you will train
Choose which training
Type
techniques to employ
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COMPONENTS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS
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QUIZ
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THANK YOU
