Characteristics And Benefits Of Leisure And Recreation + Fitness and a healthy active lifestyle Flashcards

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What are the two types of leisure and why are they good?

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Active - help maintain good health

Passive - relaxing

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What is leisure and recreation?

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Time available when you can choose what to do purely for enjoyment. Time away from the compulsory such as work and school

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What is intrinsic and extrinsic?

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Intrinsic is participating for your health

Extrinsic is participating for rewards such as praise or money

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What factors influence choice in recreation? (CLAP)

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Cost
Location (available activities due to climate ect.)
Age
Provision (availability in specific area of living)

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What are outdoor adventurous activities?

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Seen as challenging and take place in natural environments
Orienteering, kayaking, rock climbing
Schools often deliver this in the curriculum so children learn life skills and attributes

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Examples of life sports are?

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Swimming and table tennis

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An example of how a non-life sport can be adapted into a life sport?

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Football can be walking football to reduce collisions and speed of playing, meaning the elderly can participate

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What is health?

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A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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What is fitness?

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The ability of the body to meet daily demands made upon it from the activities undertaken, without experiencing discomfort

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How can our health be negatively effected?

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Drugs
Poor diet
Low activity levels
Poor hygiene and stress level management
Destructive relationships
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Examples of how you can adopt a healthy active lifestyle?

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Have a healthy active job
Walk or cycle to work
Participating in physical recreation

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How can a healthy active life style benefit you in the long term?

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Better physique and less injury prone
Improvement of components of fitness
Lowers risk of physical and mental health issues
Improves sleeping patterns

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How can a healthy active lifestyle benefit you in the short term?

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Increase: heart rate, blood pressure and flow, body temperature, sweat production

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What are the physical related components of fitness?

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Power
Strength (static, explosive, dynamic)
Speed
Cardiovascular endurance
Muscular endurance
Flexibility
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What are the skill related components of fitness?

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Co-ordination
Reaction time
Agility
Balance
Timing
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What is power?

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Maximum speed and strength

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What is speed?

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Covering a distance in a period of time

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What is cardiovascular endurance?

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Using the heart and lungs to provide energy for long periods of time

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What is muscular endurance?

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Contracting muscles over time without becoming fatigued

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What is strength?

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The amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance

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What is flexibility?

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The range of movement of a joint

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What is co-ordination?

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Using two or more parts of the body together

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What is reaction time?

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Time between the stimulus and the movement

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What is agility?

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Change direction quickly - a combination of flexibility and speed

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What is balance?

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Retain centre of mass of the body above the base of support

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What is timing?

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Co-ordinate movements to connect with the stimulus at the correct time

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Three types of strength and there meanings?

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Static - the amount of force a muscle can exert without changing length (scrum)
Explosive - strength used in one sudden movement (javelin)
Dynamic - force applied against a resistance over time (cycling uphill)

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Name the physical fitness tests and what they are used to test?

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Vertical jump test (power), bleep test (cardiovascular endurance), handgrip dynamometer (explosive strength), 60m sprint (speed), sit and reach (flexibility)

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Name the skill fitness tests and what they test?

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Alternate hand wall throw (co-ordination), Illinois agility test (agility), ruler drop test (reaction time), standing stalk test (balance)

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What are the five functions of the skeletal system?

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Protection
Blood protection
Shape
Support (attachment of organs) 
Movement
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What are the four types of bones and an example?

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Short bones (metatarsals-foot) 
Long bones (femur-leg) 
Flat bones (pelvis) 
Irregular bones (vertebrae)
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What do cartilage do?

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Is tough tissue that acts as a shock absorber at the end of bones

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What do ligaments do?

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Attach bone to bone and stabilise the joints (many in the knee as it is unstable)

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What do tendons do?

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Connect muscle to bone to allow movement

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What are the six types of joints? And an example

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Hinge (elbow) 
Ball and socket (shoulder) 
Pivot (neck) 
Saddle (thumb) 
Condyloid (between short bones in the ankle) 
Gliding (hands)
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What are the five different types of movement? Brief description for each?

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Flexion - angle of joint decreases
Extension - angle of joint increases
Adduction - the motion towards the midline of the body
Abduction - the motion away from the midline of the body
Rotation - when a limb moves in a circular motion

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What, in body movement, is origin and insertion?

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Origin - the part of a muscle attached to a non moving bone

Insertion - the part of a muscle attached to a moving bone

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What, in body movement is a prime mover and an antagonist?

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Prime mover - a muscle that contracts and shortens to create movement
Antagonist - a muscle that relaxes and lengthens to permit movement

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An example of prime movers and antagonists?

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When knee Flexion occurs, the hamstrings are the prime mover and the quadriceps muscles are antagonists

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What are the three different types of muscles? And brief description

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Skeletal (voluntary) - attached to the skeleton by tendons, can decide when to move them
Involuntary - located in the blood vessels and intestines, they contract and relax to regulate blood flow (not under conscious control)
Cardiac - heart muscles that are also not under conscious control