1. Chapter 16: A Wellness Perspective
Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance

2. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
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.

3. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
To review, what is health?

4. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
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.

5. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
To review, what is wellness?

6. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
Wellness is the positive component of good health.
Wellness represents quality of life and well-being.

7. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are the five links in the total health and wellness chain?

8. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
The 5 links in the total health and wellness chain are:
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
Social
Intellectual

9. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What factors influence emotional wellness?

10. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and 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

11. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are examples of events that might influence emotional wellness?

12. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and 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).

13. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are the positive and negative aspects of emotional health and wellness?

14. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
Positive and negative aspects of emotional health and wellness:
Negative = depressed
Positive = happy

15. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and wellness
Question
What factors influence physical wellness?

16. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and 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

17. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are the positive and negative aspects of physical health and wellness?

18. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
The positive and negative aspects of physical health and wellness
Negative = unfit
Positive = physically fit

19. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are the positive and negative aspects of spiritual health and wellness?

20. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
The positive and negative aspects of spiritual health and wellness
Negative = unfulfilled
Positive = fulfilled

21. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What factors influence social health and wellness?

22. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
Factors that influence social health and wellness:
Your willingness to make new friends
Your ability to maintain good friendships

23. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer (continued)
Your relations with older people such as parents and teachers

24. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What can you do to improve your social health and wellness?

25. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
To improve your social health and wellness:
Be outgoing.
Be trustworthy.
Attempt to help and be supportive of others.

26. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
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.

27. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are the positive and negative aspects of social health and wellness?

28. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
The positive and negative aspects of social health and wellness:
Negative = lonely
Positive = involved

29. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What can you do to improve your intellectual health?

30. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
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.

31. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What factors influence intellectual health?

32. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
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.

33. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
What are the positive and negative aspects of intellectual health?

34. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
The positive and negative aspects of intellectual health:
Negative = ignorant
Positive = informed

35. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Question
Can all people enjoy good health and wellness?

36. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
Answer
People of any age can enjoy a state of wellness and good health if they choose to do so.

37. Lesson 16.1: All About Health and Wellness
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.

38. Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance
Question
Why is it important to reassess fitness?

39. Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance
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.

40. Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance
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)

41. Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance
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)

42. Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance
Lower Body
Leg change (chapter 12, page 206)
Abdominals
Curl-up (chapter 2, page 29)
Sitting tuck (chapter 12, page 205)

43. Self-Assessment 16: Reassessing Cardiovascular Fitness and Muscular Endurance
Back and Trunk
Trunk lift (upper back) (chapter 8, page 122)
Trunk extension (chapter 12, page 205)