Health - Exercise and Fitness

How does exercise improve the physical part of your health?

• It only helps with weight loss but doesn't really affect anything else.

• It has an impact on physical fineness but no impact on mental health nor social health.

• It reduces chronic fatigue and strengthens your muscles, skeleton, and other moving parts.

• It improves the physical part of your health by building a strong body.

• It enhances the body’s protection against disease.

How does exercise contribute to the nervous system?

• Exercise leads to a reduction in neural connections.
• Exercise can improve your reaction time by helping you respond more quickly to stimuli.

• Exercise has no effect on the nervous system.
• Exercise decreases brain activity and impairs memory.

How does exercise contribute to the circulatory system?

• Exercise decreases heart rate and blood flow.
• Exercise has no effect on the circulatory system.
• Exercise weakens blood vessels and heart muscles.
• Exercise improves heart function and blood circulation.

How does exercise contribute to the respiratory system?

• With regular exercise, your respiratory system begins to work more slowly and efficiently so that you take fewer but deep breaths.

• With regular exercise, it weakens respiratory muscles.

• With regular exercises, it has no effect on gas exchange.

• With regular exercise, your respiratory system begins to work strain so that you take increased, shallow breaths.

A way of  life that requires little movement or exercise.

• Cardiorespiratory endurance

• Sedentary lifestyle

• Metabolism

• Basal metabolism

• Calories

The process by which your body gets energy from food.

• Cardiorespiratory endurance

• Sedentary lifestyle

• Metabolism

• Basal metabolism

• Calories

The minimum amount of energy required to maintain the life process of the body.

• Cardiorespiratory endurance

• Sedentary lifestyle

• Metabolism

• Basal metabolism

• Calories

Intense bursts of activity in which the muscles work so hard that they produce energy without oxygen.

• Aerobic exercise

• Anaerobic exercise

• isometric exercise

• isotonic exercise

• isokinetic exercise

Which two concepts is the problem of being overweight related to?

• Metabolism

• Basal metabolism

• respiratory system

• circulator system

• nervous system

Where do calories come from?

• Calories are only found in sugary drinks.
• Calories are produced by the body during exercise.
• Calories come exclusively from vitamins and minerals.
• Calories come from macronutrients in food.