Fitness & Wellness Chapter 1 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Correct

What is Health? -ANSWER - a state of complete well-being not only just the absence of disease or infirmity What is exercise? -ANSWER - physical activity that requires planned structure, repeated bodily movement for improving or maintaining one or more components of physical health Chronic Disease -ANSWER - develops as a result of unhealthy lifestyle that lasts over a long period of time. Health Fitness Standard -ANSWER - the lowest fitness requirement for maintaining good health, decreases risk of chronic diseases and low incidence of musculoskeletal injury DBP Diastolic Blood Pressure -ANSWER - exerted by blood against walls of the arteries during relaxed state SBP systolic blood pressure -ANSWER - pressure exerted by blood against walls of arteries during forceful contraction Health Promotion -ANSWER - the science and art of enabling people to increase control of their lifestyle to move to a state of wellness Hypokinetic Disease -ANSWER - lack of movement - therefore illnesses related to lack of physical activity health Related Fitness -ANSWER - fitness program prescribed to improve an individuals overall health The leading cause of death in America is -ANSWER - Cardiovascular Disease The most influential determinant of health is -ANSWER - Behavior or lifestyle The pursuit of motor fitness is a recommended avenue for the attainment of health and wellness -ANSWER - False The term wellness is synonymous with physical fitness. -ANSWER - False