Chapter 16: A Wellness Perspective Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness Self-Assessment 16:...

Chapter 16: A Wellness Perspective

Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness

Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance


Lesson Objectives:• Explain how wellness relates to good health.• Identify the components of good health and describe the

positive and negative aspects of each.

• Explain how the positive aspect of each component can

contribute to good health.


Question

To review, what is health?


Answer

• Health is not merely the absence of disease but living and enjoying an optimal quality of life.

• Health is wellness plus freedom from disease.


Question

To review, what is wellness?


Answer

• Wellness is the positive component of good health.

• Wellness represents quality of life and well-being.


Question

What are the five links in the total health and wellness chain?


Answer

The 5 links in the total health and wellness chain are:

• Emotional• Physical• Spiritual• Social• Intellectual


Question

What factors influence emotional wellness?


Answer

Factors that influence emotional wellness:• Whether you have a positive outlook• Events in your life and whether you perceive that

you have the resources to cope with them


Question

What are examples of events that might influence emotional wellness?


Answer

Factors that might influence emotional wellness:• Your parents get divorced (depression).• A friend is involved in an accident (grief).• You place yourself under a lot of pressure in

school or sports (anxiety).


Question

What are the positive and negative aspects of emotional health and wellness?


Answer

Positive and negative aspects of emotional health and wellness:

• Negative = depressed• Positive = happy

Lesson 16.1: All About Health and wellness

Question

What factors influence physical wellness?


Answer

Factors that influence physical wellness:• The amount of exercise you do• The amount of sleep you get• The type of diet you eat


Question

What are the positive and negative aspects of physical health and wellness?


Answer

The positive and negative aspects of physical health and wellness

• Negative = unfit• Positive = physically fit


Question

What are the positive and negative aspects of spiritual health and wellness?


Answer

The positive and negative aspects of spiritual health and wellness

• Negative = unfulfilled• Positive = fulfilled


Question

What factors influence social health and wellness?


Answer

Factors that influence social health and wellness:• Your willingness

to make new friends

• Your ability to maintain good friendships


Answer (continued)

• Your relations with older people such as parents and teachers


Question

What can you do to improve your social health and wellness?


Answer

To improve your social health and wellness:• Be outgoing.• Be trustworthy.• Attempt to help and be supportive of others.


Answer (continued)

To improve your social health and wellness:• Join social groups such as sports clubs or drama

clubs.• Interact and share ideas with adults (coaches or

parents). • Choose good friends.


Question

What are the positive and negative aspects of social health and wellness?


Answer

The positive and negative aspects of social health and wellness:

• Negative = lonely• Positive = involved


Question

What can you do to improve your intellectual health?


Answer

To improve your intellectual health:• Study and work well at school.• Find an academic area of interest that motivates

you to learn more.• Read widely from a variety of books,

including fiction and nonfiction.


Question

What factors influence intellectual health?


Answer

Factors that influence intellectual health:• Attempting to stay informed of news and current

affairs.• Obtaining news and information from various

sources, including books, newspapers, and the Internet.


Question

What are the positive and negative aspects of intellectual health?


Answer

The positive and negative aspects of intellectual health:

• Negative = ignorant• Positive = informed


Question

Can all people enjoy good health and wellness?


Answer

• People of any age can enjoy a state of wellness and good health if they choose to do so.


Answer (continued)

• For example, people who have a physical illness can still achieve wellness in all other areas—and may overcome their physical illness as well.

• Some people have different circumstances than others—but all people can do their best to achieve their own personal level of health and wellness.


Question

Why is it important to reassess fitness?

Answer

Reassessments are important because they allow you to

• practice self-assessment procedures.• choose those fitness assessments you think

meet your personal needs.• see whether your fitness changes over time.


Part I: Cardiovascular Fitness

Choose one of the following to reassess your cardiovascular fitness:

• PACER (chapter 8, page 123)• Step test (chapter 7, page 108)• One-mile run (chapter 7, page 109)• Walking test (chapter 6, page 94)


Part II: Muscular Endurance

Choose at least one item from each area to reassess your muscular endurance:

• Upper body– Push-up (90-degree) (chapter 2, page 30)– Bent arm hang (chapter 12, page 206)– Side stand (chapter 12, page 204)


Lower Body

• Leg change (chapter 12, page 206)

Abdominals

• Curl-up (chapter 2, page 29)• Sitting tuck (chapter 12, page 205)


Back and Trunk

• Trunk lift (upper back) (chapter 8, page 122)• Trunk extension (chapter 12, page 205)


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