Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Lifestyle Guidelines


Physical activity is important for everyone.  It keeps us healthy and well and can help us live longer and happier lives.  Below is a chart showing a Physical Activity Pyramid that tells us what kinds of physical activities are important for us to do.  In Module 5 Lesson 1 titled "Lifetime Wellness", it talks about the different kinds of physical activities we need to do.  It says cardiovascular can be both aerobic activity like swimming or running, or aerobic sports like baseball or soccer.  Cardiovascular activities help your heart work right and gets your system moving right. 


Physical Activity Pyramid showing Lifestyle Activities as the base of the pyramid, aerobic activity and aerobic sport together as the next level, muscular activity and flexibility activity together on the next level, and rest at the top of the pyramid.

Activity Pyramid image source by https://goo.gl/images/6TMxKe

In Lesson 1 it also talks about flexibility activities such as dance.  These are important because they help you do normal activities that you do every day.  They help your muscles.





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