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Chapter 7: Exercise for Health and Fitness Flashcards

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1
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What is physical activity?

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Any bodily movement requiring energy by skeletal muscles

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List some of the mental benefits of exercise.

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Increases overall wellness, decreases anxiety, decreases depression, increases brain function, increases self esteem, increases mood, enhances ability to deal with stressors

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List some of the physical benefits of exercise.

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Increases bone health, muscular fitness, cardiovascular fitness, decreases chronic illness and risk of falls and hip fractures, helps maintain weight and energy balance

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What are the consequences of inactivity?

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Increased obesity, chronic ilness

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What are the Canadian physical activity guidelines for the age group 18-64?

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150 minutes of moderate/vigorous a week in bouts of 10 minutes, 2 days of strength, where the most physical activity the more health benefits

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6
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What is exercise adherence?

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Sticking to a standard of behavior in order to meet some goal

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7
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What percentage of Canadians are inactive?

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47% of people are inactive

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Globally what fraction of adults fails to achieve the minimum recommendation for exercise?

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1/4

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In universities across North America, how many students are insufficiently active?

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50%

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10
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What percentage of people start exercise programs and stop within six months?

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20%-50%

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What is sedentary behavior?

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Any waking sitting/lying behavior with low energy used

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12
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On average how many hours do adults sit a day?

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9.5hrs

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13
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What percentage of our days are spent sitting?

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50%-70%

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14
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What are the risks of sedentary behavior?

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Increases our risk to type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease and causes motility

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In Canada in 2009 how much many was spent in the cost of physical inactivity?

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$6.8 billion

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16
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What was Doctor Mike Evans message in the video ‘23 and 1/2’? Why should we do this?

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The biggest impact on health is based on half an hour of exercise each day. Being active is natural and important for health and functioning

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What is physical fitness?

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A set of health or performance related attributes that allow us to participate in physical activity

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What are the 5 components of physical fitness?

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  1. Cardiorespiratory endurance
  2. Muscular strength
  3. Muscular endurance
  4. Flexibility
  5. Body composition
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19
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What is cardio-respiratory endurance?

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Ability of the body to preform prolonged, large muscle dynamic exercise at moderate to high levels of intentity

20
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What are the benefits of cardio-respiratory endurance?

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Increases the heart rate, good for heart health and blood flow

21
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What are some examples of cardio-respiratory endurance exercises?

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Running, biking, swimming

22
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What is muscular strength?

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Amount of force a muscle can produce with a single max effort

23
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What are the benefits of muscular strength?

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Strong muscles are important for metabolism and body composition

24
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What are the three types of contractions a muscle can make?

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Isometric(stay the same), essentric (lengthen) and concentric (shorten)

25
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What is the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise?

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Aerobic - with oxygen

Anaerobic - without oxygen

26
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What are some examples of muscle strength exercises?

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Weight training, resistance training

27
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What is muscle endurance?

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The ability of muscles to remain contracted or contract repeatedly for a long time

28
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What are the benefits of muscular endurance?

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Good for posture and aids in injury prevention

29
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What are some examples of muscular endurance?

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Weight training

30
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What is flexibility?

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The ability to move joints through the full range of motion

31
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What are the benefits of flexibility?

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Releases stress on joints, decreases stiffness

32
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Static stretching is more dangerous than bounce stretching. True or False?

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False, static stretching is safer

33
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What is body composition?

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The proportion of fat to fat-free mass in the body.

34
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What body composition leads to less health problems?

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High fat free, low fat mass

35
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What is skill related fitness?

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Physical abilities that contribute to performance in sport/activity (speed, coordination, reaction time, balance etc.)

36
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What is isotonic/dynamic strength training?

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Application of force with movement

37
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What is isometric/static strength training?

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Application of force without movement

38
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How should you deal with injury?

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Use RICE
Rest
Ice
Compress
Elevate
39
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What can you do to prevent injury?

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Warm up/cool up, use proper mechanics, posture, form, use proper equipment, drink lots of fluid, listen to your body

40
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What is participACTION?

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By assigning letter grades to 11 different indicators grouped into three categories, it provides an assessment of physical activity of youth

41
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What is keeping kids indoors not safer?

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It increases sedentary behavior, air quality isn’t as good, more screen time can expose to violence and online predators, more likely to consume unhealthy foods

42
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What does the risk element have to do with childhood physical activity?

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When there is a risk element present the child is more likely participate in physical activity

43
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Preschoolers move __x more when outdoors.

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2x

44
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When kids age 9-17 play outside they get __ more minutes of heart pumping activity per day?

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20 more minutes

45
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When students participate in gym outdoors, __% more steps are taken

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35%

46
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List the meaning of the grades A,B,C,D,F in participACTION?

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A - succeeding with the majority of children
B - Succeeding with well over half of children
C - Succeeding with about half of children
D - Succeeding with less than half of children
F - Succeeding with very few of children

47
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What grades was Canada given by participACTION in the sedentary behavior and overall physical activity categories?

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Both D-

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