RECREATION ACTIVITIES Flashcards
Defined is an activity voluntarily participated by a person during his or her free and leisure time. Recreation is part of human’s necessity and are part of one’s need for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure.
Recreation
Are characterized as fun, enjoy and fulfilling engagement which provides relaxation and satisfaction needs of the person.
Recreational Activities
Are done within the four walls of one’s comfort zone may be at home, inside a gym, covered court or within the buildings. Examples: Chess, scrabble, playing video games, boxing, Zumba, yoga
Indoor Recreational Activities
Classification of Recreational Activities
- Indoor Recreational Activities
- Outdoor Recreational Activities
Are undertaken in an open, natural space outside the four wall of the buildings and usually done in a large land area that is close to nature like mountains, natural parks or beaches.
Outdoor Recreational Activities
Most of the recreational activities involve physical movements and skills. Engaging on these activities develops and maintains one’s physical fitness. It also develops and improves one’s skills in sports activities while enjoying it. Recreation also develops one’s health status and well-being and preventing the development of illness like chronic and heart diseases, hypertension, and other related diseases to physical inactivity.
Physical Health Benefits
Recreational activities like basketball, volleyball, soccer, and other team sports helps create link and strong bonds with other players. It also boosts confidence towards other players. Family bonding also is another element that will be developed when individuals engages in recreational activities. It gives time to talk and share each other’s feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Furthermore, participating in the recreational activities will open an opportunity for an individual to discover one’s talents and abilities while achieving the sense of satisfaction, enjoyment and having fun.
Social Health Benefits
Participating in recreational activities will also help the individual relax and refreshes one’s mind and body from the personal and work-related stress. It also relieves the person from day-to-day tension. It also clears one’s mind and lets one think for possible solutions to one’s problem. It also improves the mood of the individual since all activities are fun, enjoying and satisfying. It gives an individual the time to oneself to enjoy engaging in the different recreational activities. Spending time to oneself enables you to discover and contemplate your inner self as well as getting your self more.
Mental and Emotional Health Benefits
As the technological advances, it also provides convenience to the lives of the people by making their work easier. On the hand, the effect of technology has also exposed the people to become less physically active since they depend on the machines. People also have reasons or excuses to engage less in physical activities which lead them to live a sedentary life
Personal Barriers
Among of the reasons (barriers) which limits the people to exercise includes:
insufficient time to exercise
inconvenience of exercise
lack of self-motivation
non-enjoyment of exercise
boredom with exercise
lack of confidence in their ability to be physically active (low self-efficacy)
fear of being injured or having been injured recently
lack of self-management skills, such as the ability to set personal goals, monitor
progress or reward progress toward such goals
lack of encouragement, support, or companionship from family and friends
non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant walking
paths close to home of the workplace
Personal Barriers
There are lot of environmental factors, in which an individual live, that could affect one’s level of physical activity. Among of these factors include the accessibility of walking paths, cycling trails, and the availability of recreation facilities. The socio-economic conditions such as traffic, availability of public transportation, crime and pollution may also have an effect. Aside from that, the social environment such as support from family and friends and community would also affect one’s engagement in physical activities. The promotion and campaigns to have an active transportation, legislation for safer communities and the creation of new recreation facilities should be given priority to promote the engagement of physical activities among individuals.
Environmental Barriers
