1. Health and Fitness

2. Outcomes By the end of this lesson, I will be able to: Know the difference between health and fitness. Understand how these can be related.

3. Health Task - Write down as many words as you can to describe health.

4. Health Fit and strong Lack illness Good social network Look good Feel good Healthy diet

5. Need to Know!!! Definition: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

6. Fitness What is fitness? TASK – Write as many words as you can to describe fitness.

7. Fitness Body composition Flexibility Strength Muscular endurance Stamina

8. Need to Know!! Definition: “Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of the environment”. But what do we mean by environment????

9. Everything around you! school family friends home

10. Environment Each of these make demands on you. Meeting these demands means carrying out tasks and activities. If you can carry out these tasks without getting tired and you still have energy left, you are fit.

11. THE LINK! Health and fitness are closely linked. If you are not healthy, you can not meet the demands of your environment. Eg – broken arm (poor physical health-not healthy) means not being able to complete your school work (not coping with the demands of your environment- not fit).

12. THE LINK! It IS possible to be fit but not healthy. Eg- You can physically manage your every day tasks (so you are fit) but are constantly depressed about being no good at anything (but not healthy).

13. Homework Answer the following question. You can list the answers, write a paragraph, create a spider diagram or think of you own creation to answer the question. Q- Why do we exercise? There are many benefits of exercise, try to look these up and come up with some great answers.