Fitness, Wellness, and Lifestyle Management Flashcards

Flashcards for review of Introduction to Fitness, Wellness, and Lifestyle Management lecture.

Health

Overall condition of the body or mind and to the presence of illness or injury

Wellness

Optimal health and vitality, encompassing all dimensions of well-being

Risk-factor

A condition that increases one’s chances of disease or injury

Physical Wellness

Body’s overall condition and absence of disease; fitness level and ability to care for yourself.

Emotional Wellness

Ability to understand and attend to your feelings; involves listening to your thoughts and feelings, monitoring your reactions, identifying obstacles to emotional stability.

Self-Acceptance

Personal satisfaction with oneself

Self-Esteem

The way you think others perceive you

Intellectual Wellness

Develops by continually challenging the mind; an active, curious mind is essential to wellness because it detects problems and seeks solutions, often about self and larger world.

Interpersonal Wellness

The ability to develop and maintain satisfying and supportive friendships; Incorporates learning good communication skills, developing the capacity for intimacy, cultivating a supportive network;Participating in and contributing to community and society

Cultural Wellness

The way you interact with others who are different from you in terms of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and customs; Includes accepting, valuing and celebrating the different cultural ways and valuing your own and others’ cultural identities

Spiritual Wellness

To possess a set of guiding beliefs, principles, or values that give meaning and purpose to life, especially in difficult times.

Environmental Wellness

Livability of your surroundings; health of planet from safety of food to degree of violence.

Financial Wellness

The ability to live within your means and manage your money in a way that gives you peace of mind; includes balancing income and expenses, staying out of debt, saving for the future, and understanding emotions related to money.

Occupational Wellness

The level of happiness and fulfillment you gain through your work; depends on liking your work, feeling connected with others in your workplace and feeling like you are learning something and making a connection.

Lifestyle choices

Conscious behaviors that can increase or decrease a person’s risk of disease or injury; examples include never smoking, getting regular physical activity, and eating a healthy diet.

Chronic disease

Those that develop and continue over a long period of time.

Freedom from chronic or disabling disease

The major difference between life span (how long we live) and health span (how long we stay healthy).

Physical fitness

A set of physical attributes that allows the body to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort.

Sedentary

Physically inactive; literally, “sitting.”

Behavior change

A lifestyle management process that involves cultivating healthy behaviors and working to overcome unhealthy ones.

Target behavior

An isolated behavior selected as the object of a behavior change program.

Self-efficacy

The belief in one’s ability to take action and perform a specific task.

Locus of control

The figurative “place” people designate as the source of responsibility for events in their life.

Self-talk

A person’s internal dialogue.

Precontemplation

No intention of changing behavior.

Contemplation

Intends to take action within six months.

Preparation

Plans to take action within a month.

Action

Outwardly changes behavior and environment.

Maintenance

Successful behavior change is maintained for six months or more.