NSTP 101 Chapter 9
- define recreation physical fitness and wellness;
- explain how Wellness can be achieved; and
- integrate Wellness in mind and body by engaging in physical activities.
> Recreation pertains to activities done for leisure to promote a person's wellbeing and growth. It brings about a sense of mastery, achievement, exhilaration, acceptance, satisfaction, success, personal worth, and pleasure. It enforces a positive self-image. It also means to socialize, meet people, and gain new friends
> Physical fitness is a measure of the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively resist diseases and confront emergency situations. It first to a person’s overall strength, flexibility, endurance of the heart, lungs, and muscles, and body consumptions. It includes nutrition and mental health.
>- According to the American Heritage Medical Dictionary, wellness is the "condition of good physical, mental and emotional health, especially when maintained by an appropriate diet, exercise and other lifestyle modification ." It is further defined by the Mosby's Medical Dictionary as a dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external environment's." Wellness is an expanded idea of health and both health and wellness are terms that mean the ability to live life fully with vitality and meaning.
> 6 DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS:
1. Physical Wellness
2. Emotional Wellness
3. Intellectual Wellness
4. Spiritual Wellness
5. Social Wellness
6. Environmental Wellness
> Behaviors That Contribute To Wellness:
1. Be physical active
2. Choose a healthy diet
3. Maintain a healthy body weight
4. Manage Stress effectively
5. Prevent drug abuse through the following:
a. Maintain good physical and mental health
b. Use drugs as directed by the physician. Most drugs are beneficial when used under medical advice or supervision.
c. Understand, accept, and respect your individual capacity or ability.
d. Develop your potential. Engage in wholesome, productive, and fulfilling activities.
e. Learn to relate effectively to those who can communicate their problems freely.
f. Learn to cope with problems and other stresses without resorting to drug abuse.
g. Seek professional help if you feel that you cannot cope with the problems that you encounter.
h. Develop strong moral and spiritual foundation.
6. Protect yourself from disease and injury through lifestyle modifications and management.
2. ● define recreation physical fitness and wellness;
● explain how Wellness can be achieved; and
● integrate Wellness in mind and body by engaging in physical
activities.
at the end of this chapter the learners are expected to:
4. Recreation
Recreation pertains to activities done for leisure to promote a
person's wellbeing and growth. It brings about a sense of mastery,
achievement, exhilaration, acceptance, satisfaction, success,
personal worth, and pleasure. It enforces a positive self-image. It
also means to socialize, meet people, and gain new friends
5. 1. Involves voluntary choice and participation of the individual
2. Includes physical activities that are well organized, date and time
flexible, suited to the individual's needs, and controlled by the
individual in terms of location, time, clothing, and equipment and
other conditions.
3. Focuses on the individual's participation more than on the result
4. accessible and available to all regardless of socio-economic status
age sex and disability
Characteristics of Recreation:
7. Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is a measure of the body's ability to function
efficiently and effectively resist diseases and confront
emergency situations. It first to a person’s overall strength,
flexibility, endurance of the heart, lungs, and muscles, and body
consumptions. It includes nutrition and mental health.
8. 1. When exercising, the lung takes in additional oxygen which is fuel for the
heart and brain.
2. Being fit enables the body to fight off illness and diseases.
3. Exercise helps reduce stress and tension strenuous exercise stimulates the
body to release endorphins.
4. Exercise strengthens the bones, which makes doing the daily task easier. It
helps heal major injuries.
5. Exercise helps a person lose weight.
6. Exercise helps strengthen the heart lungs and immune system.
7. Regular exercise reduced the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
diabetes Memory, and some types of cancer.
8. Exercise keeps the mind sharp, even as it improves brain function.
9. Being feet does not mean possessing a muscular build.
10.Regular exercise helps a person sleep faster better and longer.
Here are some key concepts about physical fitness:
9. Physical fitness is a state of good physical health. Physical
fitness to the human body what fine-tuning is to an
engine. It enables people to perform to their maximum
potential and helps them look and feel good. It affects
their state of mind and influences to some degree their
mental health alertness and emotional state.
Components of Physical Fitness
12. - According to the American Heritage Medical
Dictionary, wellness is the "condition of good
physical, mental and emotional health,
especially when maintained by an appropriate
diet, exercise and other lifestyle modification ."
It is further defined by the Mosby's Medical
Dictionary as a dynamic state of health in which an
individual progresses toward a higher level
functioning, achieving an optimum balance
between internal and external environment's."
Wellness is an expanded idea of health and both
health and wellness are terms that mean the
ability to live life fully with vitality and meaning.
14. Physical wellness is also concerned with developing personal responsibility for your own
health such as caring for minor illnesses and knowing when professional medical
attention is needed, monitoring your own vital signs and understanding your body's
warning signs and recognizing the effects of nutrition on how your body performance.
1. PHYSICAL WELLNESS
2. EMOTIONAL WELLNESS
is rooted in how you accept and manage your feelings, understand your limitations, navigate
through stressful situations and maintain healthy relationships. An emotionally well person is
able to express feelings freely and effectively, form and sustain satisfying interdependent
relationships with others based on mutual commitment, trust, and respect and take on
challenges, risk, and conflict.
15. an intellectually well person cherishes intellectual growth and stimulation through a myriad
of educational resources, keeps abreast of current issues and trends and pursues personal
interests that enhance creativity and learning. It is better to identify potential problems and
choose appropriate courses of a action based on available information than to wait, worry,
and contend with major concerns.
3. INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS
4. SPIRITUAL WELLNESS
is rooted in the understanding that humans are spiritual beings. Spiritually is not the same
religion, and some people can belong to a religion and not have a very well-developed
spiritually. Spiritually pertains to the ultimate meaning and purpose of life that each individual
needs to find and this define a value system to operate within. Spiritual wellness is achieved as
each person's actions become more consistent with his/her values and beliefs system.
16. it involves contributing to one's environment and community. It emphasizes the
interdependence between others and nature and an awareness of your importance in
society as well as your impact on multiple environments. In this dimension of wellness, you
take an active part in improving the world by encouraging healthier living, initiating better
communication with those around you, and making willful choices to enhance personal
relationships and to build a better living space and community.
5. SOCIAL WELLNESS
6. ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS
encompasses how you care for the environment, create environments that are free from
violence and the threat of violence, an live in an environment that is safe for your physically
and emotionally. In this dimension of wellness, you actively take responsibility for your
personal well-being and that of the environment.
17. Behaviors That Contribute To
Wellness
the lifestyle of an individual is a personal choice that influences the quality of life.
1. Be physical active
the human body is designed to work best when it is active. When you care more for your
body, bones, hearts and lungs, the stronger and more fit they become.
2. Choose a healthy diet
a common person's daily food intake is usual too high in calories, unhealthy fats, and added
sugars and too low in fiber, complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables. This kind of diet
is linked to a number of major diseases including heart diseases, high blood pressure, type 2
diabetes, and certain kinds of cancer.
18. 3. Maintain a healthy body weight
Obesity is associated with a number of disabling and potentially fatal conditions and
diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic and debilitating
disease that affects how the body turns food into energy. Normally, the food is
converted into glucose and stored and used by the body. The pancreas either stops
producing insulin completely for the type 1 diabetes or the body develops insulin
resistance, a condition wherein the body's cell do not respond to insulin for the type 2
diabetes. Either way, concentration of sugar in the blood shoots up.
4. Manage Stress effectively
Many people cope with stress by eating, drinking, or smoking too much. Others do not
deal it with it all. In the short-term, inappropriate stress management can lead to
fatigue, sleep disturbances and other unpleasant symptoms. Over longer periods of
time, poor management of stress can lead to less efficient functioning of the immune
system and increased susceptibility to disease.
19. 5. Prevent drug abuse through the following:
a. Maintain good physical and mental health
b. Use drugs as directed by the physician. Most drugs are beneficial when used under
medical advice or supervision.
c. Understand, accept, and respect your individual capacity or ability.
d. Develop your potential. Engage in wholesome, productive, and fulfilling activities.
e. Learn to relate effectively to those who can communicate their problems freely.
f. Learn to cope with problems and other stresses without resorting to drug abuse.
g. Seek professional help if you feel that you cannot cope with the problems that you
encounter.
h. Develop strong moral and spiritual foundation.
20. 6. Protect yourself from disease and injury through lifestyle
modifications and management.
