Soc1: The relationship between Health and Fitness and the role exercise plays in both

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

Health is a state of complete emotional /phycological, physical and social well-being and not just the absence of disease

Question 2

What is fitness?

Answer 2

Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of an environment. Therefore, for a sportsman, it means being in the right emotional/psychological and physical shape to be able to do what your sport requires of you.

Question 3

What is exercise?

Answer 3

Any activity that needs physical effort. Ie walking cycling

Question 4

What is performance?

Answer 4

It is the action or process of doing something, but the term is also used to describe how well you do something or how well you do it.

Question 5

Sedentary lifestyle

Answer 5

Lacking in physical activity.

Question 6

Hypokinetic disease

Answer 6

diseases caused by a lack of physical activity or sedentary life style.

Question 7

The benifits of having a healthy lifestyle fall into 3 categories, what are they?

Answer 7

-physicL, social, emotional/psychological

Question 8

What is the relationship between health and fitness?

Answer 8

It is possible to be fit and not healthy, you can be fit and healhy