Culminating Project 3
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- Total Wellness: What is it and Why is it Important
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- Social
- Total wellness includes being healthy in all areas of wellness: mental/emtional, physical, and social. This is important to have a healthy and happy lifestyle, and to maintain it. Mental/emotional wellness refers to being comfortable with the people around you and your environment, as well as how you react to events in life. When you feel mental/emotional tension, you are experiencing stress, which can drastically effect your mental/emotional wellness. Physical wellness refers to how you maintain your physical health, such as eating healthy, exercising, and staying mentally healthy. Social wellness is the ability to listen and interact with others often and well. As a whole, your total wellness can affect the way you live your life, and how healthy you are while you do it.
- Mental/Emotional
- Physical
- Physical Wellness and Setting Goals
- Physical wellness is important to keep our bodies functioning properly, and setting goals can keep our physical wellness sustained. To have good physical wellness, you have to find a balance between physical activity and good nutrition. To find this balance setting SMART goals can be an easy way to achieve that. SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. This provides and easy way to set goals that you can realistcally achieve. Some health-related components of physical wellness are body-fat composition, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and cardiovascular endurance which you should maintain to get benefits such as a longer life, less risk of disease, and more energy. As you can see, physical wellness and setting goals affects all parts of our life, not just our appearance and how we want to look.
- Assessing Health and Fitness
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- Assessing your health and fitness is extremely important to figure out a wellness plan. You can assess your health and fitness subjectively, including your eating habits and health conditions, or objectively, including your weight, blood pressure, and BMI. You can use national averages to make sure your objective assessment numbers are average and healthy. You can also assess your fitness levels by doing physical tests and measuring your results. The FTT principle can be used help you increase your physical fitness, and includes doing exercises with the recommended frequency, intensity, time, and type. There are also the principles of overload (not overworking your body), progression (improving over time), and specificity (the training of a specific muscle). The three main types of fitness include cardiovascular training, resistance training and flexibility training. Cardiovascular fitness is your bodies ability to get oxygen to your blood and muscles. You can do all different intensities of cardio, but mainly focus on quickening your pulse. Resistance training is exercising a specific muscle or group of muscles to strengthen them using an external force. You can use weights or just your body weight in resistance training. Flexibility is the ability to move a joint through its full range of motion, and is important to maintain in order to preform other workouts.
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