Health and Fitness - What is Health Flashcards
Who is Aristotle?
Considered the father of Kinesiology. He believed that exercise of walking produces better health
Hippocrates
If everyone is given the right amount of nourishment and exercise, found the safest way to health.
What is Physical Fitness?
Body Composition, Musculoskeletal Fitness, and Cardiovascular Fitness
Define: Fitness
It’s the ability to do muscular work satisfactorily. It’s determined by cardiovascular respiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Health Related/Performance Related Fitness
Health related allows you to do daily activities, while performance enables work or sport performance
Health Spectrum
Being healthy is not simply a yes or no. Government spends money on this spectrum that says unhealthy means disease and healthy means optimally fit but this isn’t necessarily the case. (i.e. Chadwick Boseman was fit but died because of disease)
Archibald V . Hill
Discovered how the body uses O2 when doing work; VO2Max
Andrew F. Huxley
Theorized about muscles contracting via cross-bridges
Define: Health
It is the state of being physically, mentally and socially well, not just the mere absence of disease.
Why did Life expectancy go up before Covid?
Life expectancy went up due to health promotions and tech being created which allowed for healthier lives to be lived.
What does HALE mean?
It is the age at which your health starts to rapidly decline
Define: Wellness
It’s continuously practicing healthy habits to attain better physical and mental health outcomes; thriving instead or surviving
What is the Lalonde Framework?
Framework made by a premier who realized that in order to treat the sick there must be health promotion. To protect the environment, lifestyle, and how the health care system is organized.
