Fitness and Wellness Flashcards
What is Physical Fitness?
The condition of the body that enables an individual to use his/her body in activities requiring muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, agility, power and speed WITHOUT undue experience of fatigue and exhaustion.
What does Physical Fitness equate to?
Performance and Readiness
What is WELLNESS?
A person’s health/disease status and risk potential.
What is the RANGE of wellness Continuum?
Death to Optimum Well-Being.
What is Optimum Well-Being?
The absence of disease AND state of positive well-being.
Can a person be physically fit but NOT well?
Yes. Wellness goes beyond performance.
What are the 2 components of fitness?
Functional/Health Related Fitness AND Motor Fitness.
What is Functional/Health Related Fitness?
Most Important, don’t just focus on job functions, but are related to being a fit, functional productive human being for a lifetime. Includes Cardiovascular fitness/endurance, flexibility, endurance, strength, body composition.
What is Motor Fitness?
Agility, anaerobic power (speed), explosive leg power.
What are the two underlying physical factors in performing the essential tasks of law enforcement?
Functional and Motor Fitness.
List the 6 sections of the Wellness Pyramid from TOP to BOTTOM?
Self-Responsibility, Stress Management, Tobacco Cessation, Weight Control, Proper Nutrition, Regular Exercise.
What are the leading causes of death for Americans?
Heart Disease, Cancer
What 3 disorders do police officers have a higher incidence of?
Alcoholism, Divorce, Suicide
What is KEY to performance in the Law Enforcement profession?
FITNESS! It is directly related to the ability to perform job functions.
What are the 4 principles of an effective exercise program?
Progressive Overload, Regularity/Recovery, Specificity, Balance.
