Fitness and Health Terminology

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and concepts related to fitness, health, and sleep, providing definitions for important terms from the lecture notes.

Muscular Endurance

The ability of your muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without tiring.

Muscular Strength

The amount of force a muscle can exert.

Flexibility

The ability to move your body parts through their full range of motion.

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Wellness

An overall state of well-being or total health.

Lifestyle Choices

Choices made daily of how to treat the body and mind.

Lifestyle Diseases

Diseases made likely by neglect of the body or by poor lifestyle choices over time.

Infectious Disease

An illness caused by living pathogenic organisms such as bacteria and viruses.

Sedentary

Doing or requiring a lot of sitting.

Fitness

One's ability to execute daily activities with optimal performance, endurance, and strength with the management of disease, fatigue, and stress and reduced sedentary behavior.

Target Heart Rate

The heart rate to aim for while performing aerobic exercise that leads to optimal cardiorespiratory fitness; varies by age.

Cardiovascular Endurance

The ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen to the working muscles.

Body Composition

The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, such as bone, muscle, and fluid.

Aerobic

Process that requires oxygen.

Anaerobic

Process that does not require oxygen.

Chronological Age

Actual age.

Physiological Age

Age as estimated from the body's health and probable life expectancy.

FITT Principle

Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type.

Obesity

Having an excess amount of body fat.

REM Sleep

A stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity.

NREM Sleep

Non-rapid eye movement sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep.

Sleep Apnea

A disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep.

Narcolepsy

Uncontrollable sleep attacks.

Insomnia

Difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep.