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List the six (6) components of wellness
Ξ -:- 1. Social Health
Ξ 2. Physical Health
Ξ 3. Intellectual Health
Ξ 4. Cognitive Health
Ξ 5. Emotional Health
Ξ 6. Spiritual Health
Define Social Health
Ξ -:- Includes our relationships and connections with others in our
family, our friends and even those in our community. Social health is predominately gained by face
to face, or voice, interactions with genuine emotion and feelings of well being for those with whom
you are interacting.
Define Physical Health
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Ξ -:- Physical health is commonly identified by five (5) Components:
Ξ 1. Cardiorespiratory Conditioning: also known as "endurance"
Ξ 2. Muscular Endurance: the amount of strength that can be repeated several times
Ξ 3. Muscular Strength: the shear amount of strength in one repetition
Ξ 4. Flexibility: the range of motion (ROM) in given joints
Ξ 5. Body Composition: the amount of body fat relative to the total weight or
Ξ as compared to the lean mass (not described by body weight)
Ξ Three (3) additional factors that are specific to the fitness regimens of athletes and
Ξ sports teams are: agility, speed, and mobility (or quickness)
Define Intellectual Health
Ξ -:- the capacity to assimilate and integrate new information
Ξ into one's thinking/thought processes. We should all work to understand and
Ξ comprehend new concepts on a daily basis, even when it is not "formal education".
Define Cognitive Health
Ξ -:- grouped into a "mental health" category as it has
Ξ mostly to do with how we process information in the brain. It would include the way
Ξ that we see, or conceptualize, the world around us - it includes brain functioning in
the
Ξ areas of conceptual and perceptual skill, language learning and processing as well as
Ξ many other brain development functions.
Define Emotional Health
Ξ -:- many of the "self" concepts fall into this category, including:
self-esteem, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-image, and our capacities to deal with
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adversity and stress. This also includes our ability to be intimate, not just sexual, with a
significant other. For example, an inability to maintain a long-term relationship is often
indicative of weakness in the area of emotional health. Problems in this category are
usually why many seek counseling.
Define Spiritual Health
Ξ -:- focused on the connection of ourselves with a higher power, a sense of purpose,
self-actualization,
and an inner joy. It is often described by self-acceptance, repentance for misdeeds, a
willingness to give to and forgive others and a desire to seek peace with the community
and world overall. This dimension is closely tied to emotional and social health, but is
clearly its own category.
Physical health is commonly identified by '5 Components of Fitness', list these:
Ξ -:- 1. Cardiorespiratory Conditioning: also known as "endurance"
2. Muscular Endurance: the amount of strength that can be repeated several times
3. Muscular Strength: the shear amount of strength in one repetition
4. Flexibility: the range of motion (ROM) in given joints
5. Body Composition: the amount of body fat relative to the total weight or
as compared to the lean mass (not described by body weight)
________ is the condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of disease or injury.
Ξ -:- Wellness
ADLs stands for what?
Ξ -:- Activities of daily living
What are exercise concern/s/ would you, as a personal trainer, recommend that your client see a
highly trained physiologist or physician for a determination and prescription of an appropriate
training regime?
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Ξ -:- 1. Respiratory disease
2. Joint injury
3. Cardiovascular disease
List three (3) influential aspects of behavior that will contribute to positivity, give an example of an
attribute each
Ξ -:- 1) Predisposing Factors: knowledge, attitude, beliefs, values, and perceptions
2) Enabling Factors: skills, resources, physical and mental capabilities
3) Reinforcing Factors: praise from others, rewards, encouragement, recognition
Define Muscular System
Ξ -:- consists of skeletal muscles to produce force, perform movement, support
posture and produce heat
Define Skeletal System
Ξ -:- provides body's structural support and protection
Define circulatory system
Ξ -:- pumps blood to and from the body, sustained by the heart and lungs (composed
of the cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory systems)
Define respiratory system
Ξ -:- the organ system for breathing, it takes in, transports and removes gases to and
from the blood for continued cellular function
Define nervous system
Ξ -:- communicates all autonomic and voluntary messages to all body parts with the
brain, spinal cord and nerves
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